Anonymous is now planning to target Fred Phelps.
Hacker group Anonymous appears to have singled out its next target – the controvesial anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in the US.
An open letter, purporting to be from Anonymous, accused the church of bigotry and fanaticism.
It warned that Westboro’s websites would be attacked if the congregation did not stop its public protests.
Clearly the writer of this letter has had an irony bypass.
I hold no torch for Fred Phelps and company – they are bigoted fanatics. But, so, too, are the scumbags in Anonymous.
Now, I really don’t much like the Westboro Baptist Church.
And… I don’t like Anonymous.
But which is worse?
There’s only one way to find out….
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Update: Apparently not…
Internet activist group Anonymous has said calls for it to attack the website of controversial anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church were a hoax.
The denial follows a publication on an Anonymous-affiliated website attacking the church.
In a new statement, Anonymous urged members not to participate in any denial-of-service attacks against the church’s website.
Anonymous said it had “more pressing matters to deal with at the moment”.
The new statement, which claimed to be authored by more than 20 members of Anonymous, said it didn’t “remember sending” the original release.
Well, if taken at face value, they are not going to attack Phelps because to do so would be wrong, merely that they have other victims in mind. That, then, doesn’t alter my original assessment.
It does, though, lay bare the problems with an organisation that is, well, disorganised. No one knows what anyone else is doing. The result is a fuck-up.
Twats.
…accused the church of bigotry and fanaticism.
Well, that’s a bold new angle. Next they’ll be telling us that Scientology is foolish…
Another ‘Can’t they both lose?’ dilemma 🙂
Wonderful, religous bigotted nutters vs scumbag crackers / script kiddies.
I’d happily see both burn in whatever hells they believe in
Time to stand back and laugh.
All facetiousness aside, I’m going to answer my own question. It is Anonymous by a country mile.
Fred Phelps is a nasty old bigot, but he has every right to express his views and we should be able to hear them. Anonymous has set itself up to deny that right. They don’t want to just protest, they want to silence him. I don’t recall anyone voting for Anonymous to change the laws to prevent people from exercising their freedom of speech. Nor do I recall anyone selecting them to deny businesses the right of freedom of association.
These people are nothing more than wannabe dictators, They are the enemy of civil liberties. They are way, way worse than the Phelps and the Scientologists of this world.
The way to deal with these scumbags is to vigorously prosecute them when they engage in their DDOS attacks and impose the maximum sentences when they are convicted. In an earlier discussion here, one commenter likened them to the KKK. I’d say that was a fair comparison, frankly.
Once again, this is done for the lulz.
I know it seems weird from the outside, but if you were to spend just a half hour on /b/, you’d see that what Anonymous finds funny doesn’t correlate to what the rest of humanity finds funny.
Indeed so. I have a well developed sense of humour and I don’t find Anonymous remotely amusing. A bunch of self-important, pompous cretins, frankly.