Anonymous Threatens Fox News Over Occupy Wall Street

[Saltyk]

More than anything, I'm surprised that Anon wasn't already targeting Fox News.

Personally, I'm pretty neutral in opinion on both Fox and Anon, but I really don't see what the "Anon Special" of taking the website down for a few hours will do. Take the channel off the air for a day. That would be impressive. In the end, Fox will just spin this and make themselves look like a victim. And technically they would be. Pretty sure even Obama would publicly defend Fox in this from a legal stand point. Though, he might chuckle in private.

 

[PeaceRider]

*groans* when will the stupidity end?
I've slowly becoming more and more ashamed of my own country
and have been doing so for a number of months now...
hiding behinds masks and computerized voices is cowardly.
You want change? Get out and work for it.
You want money? Get out and work for it.
Don't have a job? Get out and FIND ONE.
What about those illegal aliens? They came and found work just fine.
But with them getting chased out again those jobs are open?
Why won't average Americans take them? They either have never heard of the job, the job is to tough, or the job is just to gross.
In short, quit crying at the top of your lungs and use your hands and feet to make America great again.

 

[4173]

Am I the only one who's grown weary of Anonymous as a whole? Ooooh, they're gonna shut your whatever down, sooooo scary, no one is safe, they're the defenders of free speech...

They're just a bunch of bored hackers. No matter the intentions, illegal is illegal. I'm sure if Dr. King could get people to do things the legal way, they can too.

God I hate Anon.

History fail. One of the major tactics King promoted was Civil Disobedience. He advocated the (peaceful) violation of laws he believed to be unjust. It was a tactic inspired by Ghandi, who willingly broke laws he considered to be wrong, admitted to breaking the law in court, but said he did so because the laws themselves were evil.

Laws are not magically good just because they are laws. Laws can be written by evil or stupid people, and therefore can be evil or stupid themselves. Therefore, breaking the law is not an inherently immoral act.

That's a very good general point, but "non-owners can't shut a website down" doesn't seem unjust.

 

[Furioso]

Fox news gets taken down (their website at least) on my birthday! Yay! *throws confetti*

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

one semi evil takes down a ignorant as fuck evil?


happy days oh happy days...

 

[lord.jeff]

And once again I find myself agreeing with Anonymous's ideals but fail to side with them do to the way they choose to get things done.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Which is the lesser evil in this scenario? The hate-mongering propaganda machine or the hypocritical script kiddies? Maybe I should have worded that differently...

Also, HOW DAR U CONFUZE MILLER AND MOORE!!!!1111!!

 

[AxelxGabriel]

so, the same group who is supporting another group expressing their views, is threatening to attack another group for expressing their opinions. Anon is a bunch of fucking hypocrits.

And why target just Fox over this contrived shit? Why not attack other news channels for doing the same thing? oh i'm sorry, i forgot they have opposing political views with the general retarded internet goers.

also, the wall street protesters....not worth defending in all honesty.

Have you even listened to the the Occupy Wall Street? Or do you actually listen to Fox News and buy their biased, misinformed "news"? Fox News have been hypocrites long before Anon have even been around!

 

[AxelxGabriel]

*groans* when will the stupidity end?
I've slowly becoming more and more ashamed of my own country
and have been doing so for a number of months now...
hiding behinds masks and computerized voices is cowardly.
You want change? Get out and work for it.
You want money? Get out and work for it.
Don't have a job? Get out and FIND ONE.
What about those illegal aliens? They came and found work just fine.
But with them getting chased out again those jobs are open?
Why won't average Americans take them? They either have never heard of the job, the job is to tough, or the job is just to gross.
In short, quit crying at the top of your lungs and use your hands and feet to make America great again.

Do you even have any clue how hard it is to get a job nowadays? Or how little it pays to even support a living? Not everyone is as privileged as some people.

 

[McMullen]

Am I the only one who's grown weary of Anonymous as a whole? Ooooh, they're gonna shut your whatever down, sooooo scary, no one is safe, they're the defenders of free speech...

They're just a bunch of bored hackers. No matter the intentions, illegal is illegal. I'm sure if Dr. King could get people to do things the legal way, they can too.

God I hate Anon.

History fail. One of the major tactics King promoted was Civil Disobedience. He advocated the (peaceful) violation of laws he believed to be unjust. It was a tactic inspired by Ghandi, who willingly broke laws he considered to be wrong, admitted to breaking the law in court, but said he did so because the laws themselves were evil.

Laws are not magically good just because they are laws. Laws can be written by evil or stupid people, and therefore can be evil or stupid themselves. Therefore, breaking the law is not an inherently immoral act.

those laws weren't damaging to property and were for equality instead of infringing on OTHERS freedom of speech like the hypocrites they are. also taking down another's website is a federal offense.

Personally, I think the problem here is that there is no law prohibiting a news organization from deliberately lying to the public for political purposes. You can truthfully call someone out as a fraud and get convicted of libel for it, yet a news channel lying to swing an election towards one party is fine. This, in my opinion, is an abomination, is antidemocratic, and needs to change.

 

[pppppppppppppppppp]

I'm okay with this. This isn't going to amount to much, but considering the target is FOX News, I doubt anything bad can come out of it.

 

[omegawyrm]

That would be Alan Moore mister Tito. Not Frank Miller. At least Moore never went insane and tried to make a shitty sequel to his magnum opus.

No, he went insane and wrote some kind of erotic fanfiction about 13 year old girls from fairytales.

Yeah, humans definitely don't have any erotic experiences until they're 18. Moore is a weird pervert and his work should be totally disregarded because he ever suggested otherwise.

 

[Tiger Sora]

We are Anonymous, we are legion. Well they're slogan is catchy.

I think though this will turn out badly for our faceless cyber warriors. This will just give Fox the fuel for a media crusade. Really they should always work from the shadows. But whatever, their tactics not mine.

Good luck Anon, I salute you.

 

[CobraX]

The hacker collective wants to stop Fox from belittling the protesters of Occupy Wall Street.

film adaptation of Frank Miller's V for Vendetta.

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WRONG

Alan Moore is the writer your thinking of.

Frank Miller wrote Batman and Sin City.

 

[verysmallcat]

"I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire
enough said

 

[burningdragoon]

This amuses me. Not because I agree with or like either Fox News or Anonymous, but because as a TV station, and especially as news media, Fox News lives by ratings and attention. With video message like this Anon is giving FN exactly what it wants. As soon as you start thinking about FN, they get what the want.

Of course the same thing works the other way around.

 

[Arrogancy]

They couldn't have gone with a different voice? The intro was legitimately well paced and kinda creepy. Even just having the mission statement appear in text and scrolling up the screen for a minute would have kept the gravity of the intro going. I don't know how I feel about Anonymous, but what they're calling for is illegal, regardless of what Fox says. Am I the only one who finds it a little ironic that Anonymous, the so-called "defenders of free speech," are targeting Fox for speaking its mind? Granted Fox says ridiculous things at points, that still isn't enough justification to launch a major cyber attack on them.

 

[ckam]

Anonymous, I ask of you for only one thing.

Tokyo, Japan. Youth Ordinance Bill, Shintaro Ishihara. Fix it.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Am I the only one who's grown weary of Anonymous as a whole? Ooooh, they're gonna shut your whatever down, sooooo scary, no one is safe, they're the defenders of free speech...

They're just a bunch of bored hackers. No matter the intentions, illegal is illegal. I'm sure if Dr. King could get people to do things the legal way, they can too.

God I hate Anon.

Though I'm nearly certain someone has told you, civil disobedience doesn't mean law-abiding. MLK was arrested many times. Gandhi frequently disobeyed the "legitimate authority" and did what was considered illegal.

It wasn't the legal way, it was the peaceful way. If all they do is shut down the Fox website, I'd consider that fairly peaceful. No one is harmed, just inconvenienced slightly.