Thread: Hackers Threaten Fox, Support Wall Street Protestors

Hackers Threaten Fox, Support Wall Street Protestors

Anonymous hackers are threatening to disable Fox News' website for denouncing the Occupy Wall Street movement, as the group works to support yet another anti-establishment protest.

"Anonymous introduces Occupation Fox Hunt," the group announced in a video. "It intends on destroying the Fox News website because their continued right-wing conservative propaganda can no longer be tolerated."

Anonymous members say they will dismantle the Fox site on November 5, the anniversary of Guy Fawkes day, in defense of the Wall Street protesters. Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and former Fox News personality Glenn Beck are named as primary targets.

In an unrelated threat, Anonymous says it will bring down Facebook on the same day, alleging the social network misuses users' personal information.

The collective's plan to axe the Fox network continues Anonymous' tendency to encourage public demonstrations like the Occupy Wall Street movement, lending support and allying itself with political causes beyond technology.

So far, Anonymous has aided the Manhattan protestors by mobilizing people on Twitter as well as releasing personal information about NYPD officers and Wall Street financial moguls.

The group's planned "Day of Vengeance" for September 24, however, did not occur.

In addition to bolstering the Wall Street demonstrations, Anonymous also supported and incited marches against San Francisco's public transit system, alleging it violated the right to free speech.

In July, BART shut down its cell phone networks to prevent a protest over a homeless man's death, prompting an outcry from groups like Anonymous. The collective shut down BART websites and organized rallies at downtown train stations, grinding traffic to a halt.

Anonymous also played a role last May in Turkey's demonstrations against the country's plan to filter Internet service. The hackers leveled distributed denial-of-service attacks at government websites while 50,000 people gathered in Istanbul's streets to voice their protests.

Turkey later arrested 32 members of Anonymous in connection with the DDoS attacks.

Anonymous' targets may differ in geographic, cultural and political components, but they illustrate the groups' goal to assist protests in order to make their varied voices heard.

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So they attack someone for because they attacked free speech and then attack someone else for using free speech. These people are no more about free speech, they just want to attack those who they disagree with. But they couldn't find tell the bill of rights from the toilet paper they wipe with. That is the problem with people now a days. It's never about protecting someone else's rights when they disagree with them. I thought anonymous was just a bunch of regular joes, but it seems more and more that there is a general thinking in there. Attacking police for supposedly protecting the one percent when that is hogwash and news organizations for being right-wing conservative and just because they used their right to free speech to denounce OWS. Yeah, that's real tolerable.

Yeah the right is often wrong now a days, but so is the left and neither really cares. Each says they care about rights, but both regularly ignore other's rights. Most news organizations from both spew propaganda. Anonymous though is the first to attack one of them this way, it just shows the hypocrisy.

Although I hate Faux News as much as the next man, I think there are more noble causes the Anons could be focusing their energies on.

Who haven't they threatened/attacked yet?

it depends on how fun it is.
ah anonymous, where no one is as cruel as everyone.