Anonymous Threatens Fox News Over Occupy Wall Street

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DefiningReality

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To conservatives: Regulations aren't a bad thing. People who make their living by breaking the backs of those less fortunate than themselves deserve a measure of justice. More importantly, the people they are breaking deserve a measure of justice. You know that greed is bad. If you're honest with yourself I think you will admit that a lot of what drives corporations is greed, not mere ambition. The desire to have money isn't bad. The desire to have a lot of money isn't bad. Doing whatever it takes to get money, whether a little or a lot of it, is bad, wickedly so. You agree with this in principle, if you don't like what the Occupy people are putting forward as a solution to this then put forward your own solutions and argue your solution's merits. Don't just defend the system.

To Liberals: Regulations won't solve the problem. There are plenty of examples of far more regulated economic systems than free market capitalism. Many of them make capitalism's excesses, even those perpetrated by Transnational Corporations, look warm and fuzzy by comparison. This is because the fundamental problem is a human one. Humans seek personal advantage, whether we're talking about Wall Street fat cats, Party Members, or Senators. Replacing Capitalists with Regulators won't fix them problem, it will just change the slogans protesters are shouting. We can, and should, push for change. But just like talking about change without acting for change won't do any good, so too will addressing surface issues instead of hitting the heart of the matter not do any good.

To close: Dealing with this issue solely from a conservative or a solely liberal framework won't do any good. Nor is it sufficient for both sides to simply meet the other halfway, because this implies that cultural ideologies move along a linear scale. The approach needed is one that picks and chooses true statements from within both systems, discards what in those systems is false, and then moves forward with a plan of action based on the resulting, new third system.
 

Strazdas

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the voice is actually the default windows voice speaker. try it.

oh adn your going to hut down fox website? what would this achieve? i mean there are 0 visitors who are capable of using brains in there anyway. why punish the retarded?
 

MASTACHIEFPWN

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Well if it's guy fawks day, I'll just sit arround with some bonfire toffee and watch Fox go to CINDERS!
 

Vault101

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Soviet Heavy said:
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.
being a comic book Noob Id be interested to know which "magnum opus" youre talking about

and for a second I thourght you ment alan more DID try and do a seaquel to V for Vendetta...eather way he is a crazy bastard
 

RatRace123

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I don't always support anonymous' actions, but FOX has had this coming for the longest time, or at least since 2007, when they did a smear campaign on Mass Effect.

GO ANONYMOUS!
 

nick2150

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

...They have attacked Scientology for its so-called evil practices...
So called? there isnt any so called about it. Scientology engages in evil practices.
 

Sonic Doctor

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This is so incredibly stupid.

Anon needs to shut it's whiny little hole. If Fox News does the bad things Anon claims it does, Anon should do the exact same to all liberal news outlets as well. Those outlets had commentators that were ten times as nasty to the Tea Party protesters compared to anything Fox has said about the Wall Street protesters.

Anon are a bunch of hypocrites. They only attack when people mess with things they support. Get your priority's straight Anon, the liberal news outlets are just as messed up as people claim Fox is. Attack one, you have to attack them all.
 

Ashley Blalock

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Just not sure if taking down the Fox News website will really do any good.

The true believers, the people who have drank so deeply from the crazy conservative Kool Aid that they believe the President has a fake birth certificate and is part of some evil plan to destroy the United States aren't exactly the people intelligent enough to use the internet. From some of the Tea Party signs I've seen I sometimes wonder how many of them can even read.

If it was taking the Fox News TV channel down then that might be pretty impressive since the faithful would have to go for a while without the total bullshit that rolls out of the mouth's of people who still try to claim they are a reporter.

Sure we might get a chuckle because a group of hackers took down a rarely used website for a little while and the Fox News commentators will be foaming at the mouth mad about it for a few days. But in a week at most it will all be over with as they come up some new loads of propaganda about why it's a good thing you are poor and struggling while the rich have never had it so good. Or why it would be so evil if you could actually afford to go to the doctor when you were sick.
 

evilartist

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As much as I hate Fox News and their dickhead "Friends", they're just expressing free speech. What Anonymous is doing is similar to censorship of peoples' voices. Not cool, regardless of how retarded and hypocritical those voices are.
 

rob_simple

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notimeforlulz said:
rob_simple said:
Frank Miller did not write Batman. I...I don't even know where to start.
He's talking about year one, the dark knight returns & the dark knight rises. Frank Miller did write some batman books, ones considered great. Though not cannon.
I had a feeling that's what he meant, but the way he said it sounded like he meant Miller invented Batman. The irony almost killed me.
 

Something Amyss

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I can't believe I'm going here again, but....

evilartist said:
As much as I hate Fox News and their dickhead "Friends", they're just expressing free speech. What Anonymous is doing is similar to censorship of peoples' voices. Not cool, regardless of how retarded and hypocritical those voices are.
"free speech" does not protect against slander, libel, incitement, and so on.

I cannot call for your death, nor legally run a campaign saying you are a pedophile, for example. Nor can you to me. Nor can anyone.

Except Fox News, who has successfully appealed for the right to lie.

Please, please please PLEASE do not complain about free speech, because that's not the issue here.
 

Something Amyss

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nick2150 said:
Greg Tito said:
The hacker collective wants to stop Fox from belittling the protesters of Occupy Wall Street.

...They have attacked Scientology for its so-called evil practices...
So called? there isnt any so called about it. Scientology engages in evil practices.
People word things very carefully because Scientology likes to sue.
 

Laxman9292

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AugustFall said:
Oh no! Not the Fox News website!

This is relevant: http://xkcd.com/932/
Basically. I can't believe that people freak out so much about it. It's just the website guys. Easy shit, overload the server with a DDoS attack; hell, Wikipedia can tell you how if you want!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

FOX is going to be back up in a few days after the attack max, but more likely sooner than that.
 

Laxman9292

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Ashley Blalock said:
Just not sure if taking down the Fox News website will really do any good.

The true believers, the people who have drank so deeply from the crazy conservative Kool Aid that they believe the President has a fake birth certificate and is part of some evil plan to destroy the United States aren't exactly the people intelligent enough to use the internet. From some of the Tea Party signs I've seen I sometimes wonder how many of them can even read.

If it was taking the Fox News TV channel down then that might be pretty impressive since the faithful would have to go for a while without the total bullshit that rolls out of the mouth's of people who still try to claim they are a reporter.

Sure we might get a chuckle because a group of hackers took down a rarely used website for a little while and the Fox News commentators will be foaming at the mouth mad about it for a few days. But in a week at most it will all be over with as they come up some new loads of propaganda about why it's a good thing you are poor and struggling while the rich have never had it so good. Or why it would be so evil if you could actually afford to go to the doctor when you were sick.
So now you are making sweeping generalizations of FOX viewers and Tea Partiers... Nice moral high ground.

Honestly, what pisses me off are the people who attack FOX turn a blind eye to the liberal side of the media which is even more pervasive I think, seeing as most of Hollywood is liberal as well as MSNBC, The Washington Post and the New York Times. That being said The Washington Times has a pretty conservative bias as well.

Really the only major news outlet without a consistent or intense bias is CNN. Stop ganging up on FOX and realize you need to show the other new sources that they are wrong too. Which won't happen because as much as you clamor for free speech and no bias, you are more liberally minded and as such don't mind a little liberal slant in your news. But conservative bias? Fuck no!

Not you specifically, obviously. More like "you" in general but also a lot of people on the Escapist are a lot like this.
 

Laxman9292

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DefiningReality said:
To conservatives: Regulations aren't a bad thing. People who make their living by breaking the backs of those less fortunate than themselves deserve a measure of justice. More importantly, the people they are breaking deserve a measure of justice. You know that greed is bad. If you're honest with yourself I think you will admit that a lot of what drives corporations is greed, not mere ambition. The desire to have money isn't bad. The desire to have a lot of money isn't bad. Doing whatever it takes to get money, whether a little or a lot of it, is bad, wickedly so. You agree with this in principle, if you don't like what the Occupy people are putting forward as a solution to this then put forward your own solutions and argue your solution's merits. Don't just defend the system.

To Liberals: Regulations won't solve the problem. There are plenty of examples of far more regulated economic systems than free market capitalism. Many of them make capitalism's excesses, even those perpetrated by Transnational Corporations, look warm and fuzzy by comparison. This is because the fundamental problem is a human one. Humans seek personal advantage, whether we're talking about Wall Street fat cats, Party Members, or Senators. Replacing Capitalists with Regulators won't fix them problem, it will just change the slogans protesters are shouting. We can, and should, push for change. But just like talking about change without acting for change won't do any good, so too will addressing surface issues instead of hitting the heart of the matter not do any good.

To close: Dealing with this issue solely from a conservative or a solely liberal framework won't do any good. Nor is it sufficient for both sides to simply meet the other halfway, because this implies that cultural ideologies move along a linear scale. The approach needed is one that picks and chooses true statements from within both systems, discards what in those systems is false, and then moves forward with a plan of action based on the resulting, new third system.
Can you stick to those guns and run for president?
 

Craazhy

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I like the cause, but I don't like the Guy Fawkes symbolism. I wish they would just let the cause be the face of their movement and appear to have a sense of taste and maturity. Don't hand over ammo to the opposition. Force them into a corner where they would have to hypocritically chastise you for being composed, regal and noble or nothing at all.