Hacker Group “Anonymous” Threatens to Take Down Fox News Website Over OWS Coverage

Fox News, does nothing to improve their take on politics.  They are not fair and  balanced, but under the Constitution of these United States, they are protected by the First Amendment.  Freedom to speak, write, protest, cuss and say whatever pleases them and their audience, as long as they do not  have to prove it true or false.  But they do, get their heads handed to them on silver platters, more than once when other networks check out their so called fair and balanced reports.
The only thing  “Anonymous” does by targeting Fox News is make it easier for law enforcement cybercops to figure out where, when, and how these attacks take place.  And then you will hear them, say "CHARGE"  and your arrest.  “Anonymous”
you have some freedoms under the first Amendment, do not lose them, learn to use them to your advantage..........

Posted by: Do  n Irvine    Tags:                             Posted date:  October 26, 2011  |  11 Comments

The hacker group “Anonymous” announced plans to take down the Fox News website on Nov. 5 over its coverage of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.

They are calling their effort Operation Fox Hunt and say that Fox News’ “continued right-wing, conservative propaganda can no longer be tolerated.”
“Anonymous” criticizes the website for belittling the Occupy Wall Street protesters by using words like “filthy, dirty and disgusting” to describe them and says the site must be shut down.
In addition to shutting down the Fox News website, “Anonymous” plans to launch its own propaganda campaign “to show them how it feels to be chastised.”
The message ends with the warning: “Fox News, your time has come.”
The left, which hasn’t had a protest movement like OWS in decades, is bristling at the coverage by Fox News that exposes the occupiers for what they really are. They are now using this threat by “Anonymous” in an effort to curtail the unfavorable coverage.
Fox News has obviously struck a nerve with the thin-skinned hackers at “Anonymous.”

TW Hmmmm…..
If successful, I wonder if this will be used to justify the complete control of the internet by the the feds.

Roseann Graham It seems like these people are hacking more than just Fox News. Lately, more Internet issues are surfacing. If these people are so proud of “taking down” a network, what else could individuals
like this be capable of?

Bryan Fox calls OWS dirty, they call the Tea Party astroturf.
Fox calls OWS filthy, they call the Tea Party racist.
Fox calls OWS disgusting, they call the Tea Party hostage takers.
Yet the Tea Party has never endorsed violence. Never threatened to
take down MSNBC. But we are the same?

Greg I will defend with my hacking skill yor right to free* speech
*free as in those statments ‘we’ agree with

Herbert May I humbly suggest a more inclusive term for the ‘thousands of countries’ which have ‘occupy’ encampments?
~OBAMAVILLE~

jfhdsiu “Anonymous” is synonymous with “Cowardly” terrorists in this instance!
Cowardly, because they attack anonymously.
Terrorists, because that IS, by definition, what terrorists do. Attack in a COWARDLY fashion……Anonymously!
I don’t suppose they take into account the harm they do those that they support! Obviously they don’t realize the animosity they will generate, (in those who support the Fox site), AGAINST the “parkupier” crowd! The disruption will also turn a GREAT MANY, otherwise neutral, people against the cowardly anonymous mob. The Fox site WILL recover, (and may even find a way to neutralize the cowardly anonymous attacks). The, ‘secretive’, anonymous mob are cowards and are undeserving of the credibility afforded “HONEST” people.
As for setting up a web site to counter Fox’s message, the fools must not realize that it would only work IF people actually read their tripe and believed it. I don’t see that happening. “Sticks and stones”, and all that.
Words can only hurt if they’re TRUE. Soooo……….Since the Anonymous cowards ARE “hurt” by the words they are upset about, it logically stands to reason that THOSE words ARE TRUE! Another reason they generate animosity AGAINST their cause. They’re protesting “the truth”, (a ‘truth’, as is evidenced by their being HURT by it)!
The Anonymous mob hasn’t an ounce of courage to share between them.

jeko What a great opportunity to employ network sniffers. They identified the time and the place.. Do it.
catch them and throw them so deep in prison that it will take $5 in postage to get a post card.

CLR Not only are the people doing the protest dirty and spoiled, they are whiny babies. This proves it full well.

BossMan That’s the reason it is totally foolish to do internet banking.
Most don’t realize they are just asking for trouble when they do

david rockingham Anonymously, someone should expose these sinister terrorists that don’t believe in free speech.

Recce1 Is their Fox hacking threat a surprise? They’ve already attacked a Foxnews reporter physically. Should we expect less from these sociopathic anarchists?