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(46,327 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:04 PM Aug 2018

Infowars Website Goes Dark



Source: Right Wing Watch

Employees for Alex Jones’ Infowars began frantically tweeting this afternoon that the website was on the receiving end a cyber attack. Although it’s unclear exactly what’s going on behind the scenes at Infowars, one thing is clear: the Infowars website was tanked.

Infowars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson announced on Twitter that the site was offline and had “been under cyber attack for over a week since Big Tech launched its purge.”

Read more: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/infowars-website-goes-dark/
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Infowars Website Goes Dark (Original Post) Archae Aug 2018 OP
The Russian 400 lb guy did it! imanamerican63 Aug 2018 #1
I was driving down the road today and saw this idiot in a souped up car with an outlandish spoiler kimbutgar Aug 2018 #2
Translation: "We can't pay our bills." blogslut Aug 2018 #3
Or even more likely, their provider doesn't have the bandwidth /nt localroger Aug 2018 #14
Still down, referring viewers to "other channels." Hortensis Aug 2018 #4
This needs a sountrack Vogon_Glory Aug 2018 #5
Whomp! Whomp! Raster Aug 2018 #6
Thoughts and prayers, they stay off. pwb Aug 2018 #7
They just held DEF CON in Las Vegas. It's a convention for hackers. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2018 #8
I believe that young hacker was a girl. nt tblue37 Aug 2018 #22
That eleven year old hacker was a GIRL! hedda_foil Aug 2018 #24
They went from going dork to going dark gratuitous Aug 2018 #9
I can't figure out if Jones and Watson are con-men or mentally ill. Doodley Aug 2018 #10
Yes. Archae Aug 2018 #12
It's possible to be both simultaneously: sociopaths. VOX Aug 2018 #18
That's what a real "drop the mic" moment looks like... no audio, no visual, procon Aug 2018 #11
False flag. He did it to himself. NightWatcher Aug 2018 #13
hacking crisis actors!!!!!!! Takket Aug 2018 #15
Plus his other sites are still up like prisonplanet NightWatcher Aug 2018 #16
Womp womp Fullduplexxx Aug 2018 #17
I really don't care-do u? demtenjeep Aug 2018 #19
Womp womp! Initech Aug 2018 #20
Obviously the work of the Illuminati Major Nikon Aug 2018 #21
Q: How many Infowars nuts does it take to put a plug in an electrical outlet? ProudLib72 Aug 2018 #23
LOL ck4829 Aug 2018 #25

kimbutgar

(21,148 posts)
2. I was driving down the road today and saw this idiot in a souped up car with an outlandish spoiler
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:06 PM
Aug 2018

That had an infowars.com sticker on the bumper, my first thought was what a friggin idiot.

blogslut

(38,000 posts)
3. Translation: "We can't pay our bills."
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:07 PM
Aug 2018

It's no wonder they're so desperate to get a streaming/video service to host their stuff. They can't afford to host big files on their own servers.

That's my guess.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Still down, referring viewers to "other channels."
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:08 PM
Aug 2018

Wonder who's behind it? Blogslut's obviously less clueless, but I'm not excluding Trump's 400-pounder. Among the first I would cross off the list would be Jones's evil "Big Tech;" where's the profit?

8. They just held DEF CON in Las Vegas. It's a convention for hackers.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:22 PM
Aug 2018

During the convention one hacker got into the Florida Secretary of State's website and changed the sample vote-reporting page (not the real one) to reflect different candidates and different vote totals. The leader got more than a billion votes.

The hacker was 11 years old, and it took him 10 minutes to do the hack.

I have no doubt that Infowars was hacked. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
18. It's possible to be both simultaneously: sociopaths.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 09:40 PM
Aug 2018

They run a con, but don’t give a hoot about the destructive capacity of the unrestrained garbage that they spew. Certain higher human emotions are foreign to them: empathy, civility, reason, concern, a conscience, etc.

There’s a sociopath in the White House as well. See if the partial identifiers below don’t fit a certain somebody we all know:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/201803/how-spot-sociopath-in-3-steps?amp
<snip>
Sociopaths are fast talkers. Their words are mostly false, if not entirely false. But they use many, many words designed to cover their behavior. They may be a completely different person from who they say that they are. Watch out for extremes. Big promises. Big stories, about the past or the future. Big plans, with no basis for them or no experience at whatever they’re planning.
<snip>

Takket

(21,568 posts)
15. hacking crisis actors!!!!!!!
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 07:27 PM
Aug 2018

you make a great point. EVERYONE should be out there reporting tht this attack was fake. give him a taste of his own medicine!!!!!!!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
23. Q: How many Infowars nuts does it take to put a plug in an electrical outlet?
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 12:33 AM
Aug 2018

A: None of them are capable so they blame Obama.

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