Anonymous Threatens Fox News Over Occupy Wall Street

[Ldude893]

Everyone get some popcorn and sit back.
If Anonymous proceeds with their plan and if FOX News is going to behave the same way they behaved in the past, this is going to be quite a show regardless of which side wins.

 

[keideki]

Lets see if Anon can actually live up to its claims. For the record I support them in this case, although I doubt they will do much more than some DDOS attacks. Any script kiddie can run one of those.

 

[Korolev]

I hate Fox News, but they are a private company with a right to exist. Anonymous says they defend free speech, but it looks like they have no real conception of what free speech is. How can they pretend to be champions of freedom, if they want to shut down anyone who insults a group they like or opposes their views? That's not freedom.

Yeah, Fox News is a biased, horrible news station that has been pumping political (but not real) poison into the US for a good while now. They still have a right to exist. For all their supposed libertarianism, Anonymous have no real idea what they are doing, or what Freedom of Speech actually means.

Freedom of Speech means FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Not "Freedom of speech you like and not freedom of speech you don't like". Fox News, vile as they are, have a right to not like the Protests.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

This is the problem, at least in the UK, an 'opinion journalist' can state:

"The facts are, Jesus rode in here on a unicorn last night, twinkies cure cancer and Obama is a shape changing lizard." ... and that's just fine, no-one can complain that they're being misleading.

From what I've seen of Fox, similar rules apply. Sometimes, when things are really shitty, and there's nothing that can be legally done about it, I don't blame people for taking it into their own hands. The protestors are harmless, and if Fox have a couple of hours downtime on their site and O Reilly finds a human turd on his car's sunroof, I'm fine with that.

From what I've seen, and I admit to being across the ocean here, the Tea Party started out with a similar position to the current protestors, being against the bailout of the banks and against throwing all our money to those who fucked the world over. Fox News seemed to swing that idea around to a general anti spending any money on anything idea, channeling their protest into an anti Obama, anti healthcare message over time.

Sure there's freedom of speech, but when one side has their speech coming out of a hundred million speakers, and the other has a few hundred in tents, I don't blame people for thinking it's unfair and wanting to side with the underdogs.

 

[CarlMin]

There is nothing those script kiddies wouldn't do to get attention. This includes using windows movie maker to spread their "political" messages.

 

[Rawne1980]

Frank Miller's V for Vendetta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd,

I know it's been pointed out already but I found that in a few seconds and i'm not the one doing the topic.

 

[Benni88]

Definately watching fox on the 5th. Props to the guys doing the moral thing despite it being illegal.

 

[Delusibeta]

I'd imagine that since they've announced it, Fox News will throw up a few more servers, making the whole thing a damp squib.

 

[Scrustle]

If they can pull it off then kudos to them. And it's Guy Fawkes Night, not day, by the way.

 

[Vault Citizen]

Its too bad for Fox that it isn't part of a society that actively promotes free speech, if it did this attack wouldn't seem so heroic.

 

[chstens]

As much as I am for absolutely destroying Faux News, using the "Anonynmous" name to do so, will just "strengthen their resolve".

 

[Treefingers]

Awesome. I hope they manage to do it.

 

[wooty]

Soooo what? Has hacking become the new suing?
The problem I have with all this is that there could be no end to it all, if people give support to this then it means theyll attack anything that goes against any of their own views and feel like people are backing them.


(online)WARRIORS FOR (altered)TRUTH AND (next-to-no) JUSTICE!!!

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I love how even without doing anything they manage to get stuff done. That does make sense. Anonymous doesn't even need the hacking for what they do. It just helps.

 

[Jonny49]

Does everything Anonymous do have to be so damn melodramatic? It's impossible to take them seriously.

 

[TimeLord]

...film adaptation of Frank Miller's V for Vendetta...

V for Vendetta was an Alan Moore graphic novel. Frank Miller had nothing to do with it.

"V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd" - V for Vendetta Wiki

OT: Maybe they'll destroy each other in the process? Then the world would be a better place.

 

[Tharwen]

Anonymous: We don't like what you're saying so we're just going to hack your site like little girls having a slapfight.

They started this campaign because fox news was using slanderous names to portray the protestors, that's wrong

That doesn't change my point.

 

[Avalanche91]

If Fox News was taken down, it would improve America's international image, that's for certain.

Then again, doesn't this go against the whole; 'I might not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to death your right to say it' thing Anonymous was going by? Or have I been out of the loop to long.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Anonymous always reminds me of Kira from Death Note, but less mad.
OT: It's good that such organizations exist though, as the world needs
a masked vigilante (/quote).