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Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« on: January 16, 2012, 09:25:14 am »
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The hacktivist group Anonymous, for example, has found a juicy new target: stodgy old media executives.

The group obtained and then published posts with personal information about Jeffrey L. Bewkes, chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, and Sumner M. Redstone, who oversees Viacom and CBS. As The New York Times reports,  the info from Anonymous set off a wave of angry phone calls and emails to Mr. Bewkes home.

The people in power seem a little perplexed about the guerilla tactics. ““Why can’t they just hire a lobbyist like everyone else?” a Congressional aide for the House Judiciary Committee asked the NY Times.

If you thought fabulously wealthy media moguls were going to take this lying down, think again. New Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch used his Twitter account over the weekend to respond to the White House letter. “So Obama has thrown in his lot withSilicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,” he tweeted. “Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying.”

source - http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/16/sopa-opera-anonymous-targets-media-execs-moguls-take-aim-at-google/

Maybe it is just me, but I find it funny that they are complaining about this "Guerilla Tactics" when it seems these same tactics have more affect on them than just hiring a lobbyist that would cost a bunch more money than these "guerilla tactics" cost lol.
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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2012, 09:57:55 am »
Of course they are crying that they should hire a lobbyist. Were Anon to do so, they would
A) lose as they are playing to their opponents strengths

B) probably get arrested as now the police would be able to easily track them

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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2012, 11:10:07 am »
Actually, what really amuses me is that they're slamming Anonymous for not lobbying while at the same time slamming Google for lobbying.
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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2012, 06:25:24 pm »
You need money to lobby, which is part of the reason why politics are firmly in the hands of the rich and elite :-/
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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2012, 06:27:05 pm »
Hopefully the anons behind this know that they should keep their actions to annoying-but-funny-and-legal, so that they don't get caught.
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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2012, 06:35:33 pm »
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The hacktivist group Anonymous, for example, has found a juicy new target: stodgy old media executives.

The group obtained and then published posts with personal information about Jeffrey L. Bewkes, chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, and Sumner M. Redstone, who oversees Viacom and CBS. As The New York Times reports,  the info from Anonymous set off a wave of angry phone calls and emails to Mr. Bewkes home.

The people in power seem a little perplexed about the guerilla tactics. ““Why can’t they just hire a lobbyist like everyone else?” a Congressional aide for the House Judiciary Committee asked the NY Times.

If you thought fabulously wealthy media moguls were going to take this lying down, think again. New Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch used his Twitter account over the weekend to respond to the White House letter. “So Obama has thrown in his lot withSilicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,” he tweeted. “Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying.”

source - http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/16/sopa-opera-anonymous-targets-media-execs-moguls-take-aim-at-google/

Maybe it is just me, but I find it funny that they are complaining about this "Guerilla Tactics" when it seems these same tactics have more affect on them than just hiring a lobbyist that would cost a bunch more money than these "guerilla tactics" cost lol.


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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2012, 07:43:16 pm »
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“Why can’t they just hire a lobbyist like everyone else?” a Congressional aide for the House Judiciary Committee asked the NY Times.

Because anon does what it wants on it's own. I can't believe after all the bs that's gone on and all the publicity and info, people still misunderstand anon
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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2012, 07:58:33 pm »
Das, you're overlooking a critical detail in this case.

These people are morons.
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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2012, 11:18:48 pm »
I love Anon forever. All that need be said.

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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2012, 11:59:56 pm »
The fact that this moron seems to think Anon is an actual entity rather then a collection of /b/tards who are doing this for the lulz is really telling about the people who created SOPA.

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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2012, 01:10:28 am »
SOPA has been debated in congress for, what, two months now, and anon are getting up to their usual tricks now? Are they just getting lazy, or simply falling out of vogue and losing active and competent members in the process?

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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2012, 01:13:17 am »
They're not an organized group.  Anon is just a bunch of kids in basements who like to screw with people.

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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2012, 01:57:52 am »
I'm aware of that. My point was either those who both can themselves "anonymous" and are actually computer literate are for some reason responding to what is a perfect target for them far more slowly now than they used to, likely for the reasons mentioned earlier.

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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2012, 02:01:26 am »
Maybe they were taking on some cat killers or something.  I don't know!  It's just that they're now getting to this ok?

Ironbite-I'm not apart of Anon so yeah.

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Re: Anonymous takes on SOPA supporters
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2012, 02:13:54 am »
Maybe they were taking on some cat killers or something.  I don't know!  It's just that they're now getting to this ok?

Ironbite-I'm not apart of Anon so yeah.
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