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Anonymous Fascist Tendencies?

April 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment

It seems that yesterday the cyber group of hackers known as Anonymous target what it said was the Israeli government websites as a kind of show of solidarity with Palestinians. In a relatively rare harsh and thuggish mistake this group suddenly went all political and far, far away from any type of liberal activism that is so identifies with those who promote freedom, especially on the internet.

A few things stand out on this campaign against Israel which are so unlike Anonymous that one must ask himself if this is really the same group, or is it someone else posing as the Anonymous group, and if so – why don’t  the real ones stand up to voice their concern over this cyber attack.

The first thing is the “why” factor, the cause for this action, at first it was claimed (weeks ago) the it is the disturbance of the cease-free agreement that triggered this action, however the Palestinian side has clearly violated this cease fire , even on the day it was signed, so no real cause here. Second is “solidarity” with the Palestinians, are we talking about the same group of people who persecute gay people, torture, execute and drag bodies around the streets without trial or any kind of legal process?

The other thing is the timing, seems that this attack, planned weeks ago, is set on the Israeli Holocaust memorial day, and to make things even worst some of the Anonymous activists claim that their action is meant to “wipe out Israeli presence off the internet”, not a very good choice of words.

So, is this really Anonymous doing? if it is this must be a sad moment, because it symbolizes the fall of one of the bravest and coolest internet protest groups into an ideological abyss, and onto a work-for-the-popular-vote kind of thuggish attitude. The result of this attack on Israeli sites resulted in many regular, privately owned sites failure and very little damage to government sites, it also showed the language and graphic skills of the hackers who went to work on this, and unsurprisingly it features the Arab language on most case, and on other very clear religious symbolism driving a clear line between this attack and its probable true nature, the hare of Jews and the Jewish state.

Anonymous Targets Israel or simply after Jews?
Anonymous Targets Israel or simply after Jews?

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: anonymous hacker group attacks Israeli on Holocaust memorial day, anonymous targets Israeli site

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Yesterday news told one story about the hacker group “Anonymous” wanting to shut down internet traffic, or at least make it very slow, on the end of March this year. We have, in the past, covered some of the actions of this group with admiration, because many times they stand up against systems and ideas that are well worth the opposition, however this time it looks like a generally bad idea.

The first thing is that it might not work at all, they want to target the servers who direct traffic across the internet to the domains (sites) visitors are looking for, by damaging those servers they could slow or even stop internet traffic, but these companies have too much on the line here and it is very unlikely that they will fall down without a proper fight.

The reason for all of this? SOPA. Good reason no doubt about it, but killing internet traffic to stop SOPA is almost like killing a patient to protest slow ER procedures. And much more… the US government has already signaled that it does not really need SOPA to act, as it did just a day after SOPA was put on the ice. If there is anything worth flighting about right now it much be ACTA, which is even more scary.

So we will need to wait and see what really goes down on March 31st, and if it does work out for Anonymous we should try and suggest better moves and better targets.

 

Filed Under: Free Speech, Internet Tagged With: Anonymous, Anonymous hackers, SOPA, stop SOPA