A group of Internet activists took credit for crashing the Visa.com Web site on Wednesday afternoon, hours after they launched a similar attack on MasterCard. The cyber attacks, by activists who call themselves Anonymous, are aimed at punishing companies that have acted to stop the flow of donations to WikiLeaks in recent days.
The group explained that its distributed denial of service attacks — in which they essentially flood Web sites site with traffic to slow them down or knock them offline — were part of a broader effort called Operation Payback, which began as a way of punishing companies that attempted to stop Internet file-sharing and movie downloads.
Cyber terrorism from the left and no one says anything. If tea party sympathizers did this there would be a witch hunt in the media about right wing extremists.
The double standard ignoring leftist terrorism continues.
Blah blah blah, yack yack yack. Shed a tear for the poor right wing extremists… Come on!!!
Go to the Domestic Terrorist Most Wanted List on the FBI’s home page and tell me how many “tea baggers” are on there. Every single person on that list is a left leaning extremist. Including some that go back to the 70’s. You wont find ANY open carry advocates, anti abortion activists, anti tax advocates on that list. So long story short get over yourself your not being oppressed, watched, stalked, followed, or fucked with.
Is there a requirement regarding Tea Bagger membership that states:
“During any political discussion, discussion on current issues, or conversation about the media that happens in any venue whether that be internet, cafe, dinner table, or television, one must ALWAYS divert the conversation away from the actual subject, and towards the fact that the Tea Party is the most oppressed organization in America.”?
Do you guys swear this shit on the bible or something? While I realize Sarah Palin now has a reality show, your “party’s” rambling is getting pretty old.
How are those representatives you all elected into office panning out? Sounds like most of them have capitulated already regarding Obama’s recent tax compromise.
How are those representatives you all elected into office panning out? Sounds like most of them have capitulated already regarding Obama’s recent tax compromise.
Lets see… Where to begin…
He said MEDIA not GOVERNMENT
Tea Party folks are not out to take down / radicaly change our goverment/nation. The so-called left is.
There is no one guiding the Tea Party types. There is a number of organizations guiding the so-called left.
Not everyone and every group breaks down into Left Vs. Right.
Anonymous represents the ideal of a complete and open society. Where all information is available to everyone.
They have gone after Scientology, child porn rings, left leaning groups, right leaning groups, and now are supporting Wikileaks.
Sometimes I support their agenda, other times I don’t. But to call them leftist terrorists is incorrect. If anything they tend to be extremely libertarian in their views.
The supposedly “left wing cyper-terrorists” orchestrating these attacks are defending their actions on first amendment grounds (i.e. governmental and corporate efforts to silence WikiLeaks is a violation of free speech).
Oh what a tangled web (no pun intended) we weave. Folks are quick to shout “Free Speech!” as a casus belli for everything from unlimited corporate influence in our electoral process to publishing anything that anyone ever committed to paper or hard drive.
For every individual right which is secured by our Constitution, there is someone waiting to invoke that same right in defending actions which are taken beyond the extreme and into the absurd.
So you’re defending the actions of hackers or condemning them?
The first amendment doesn’t entitle you to break the law. Hacking is a crime more to the point so is the theft of classified documents.
If stealing and revealing classified documents were constitutionally permissable (an interpretation which no court anywhere has endorsed) than why have espionage laws, secrecy laws and/or even privacy laws? A spy is only exercising his first amendment rights to betray his country. WTF?
Are these people “terrorists” in the same vein as 9/11? Maybe not but they’re defending the actions of someone whose actions at the very least put American soldiers, citizens as well as the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of foreigners in grave jeopardy.
Not defending anyone. Simply pointing out that it is possible to justify any action by invoking a generally universally accepted right and extending that right to its logical extreme, which frequently morphs into an illogical absurdity.
Basically, if it’s attention-getting and something a 13-year old would think was “cool,” they do it.
Sometimes it’s hard not to appreciate that someone out there has the guts to say/do something (i.e. call scientology out for what it is), most of the time, though, you just shake your head and marvel at the idiocy of the dregs of society.
I deleted it. The derogatory comments and profanity aren’t tolerated. Even in GD. I decided to edit instead of issue an infraction. Please don’t make me regret that.
I was in the process of sending you a PM but since you asked, I answered.
