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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 05:50 PM Dec 2012

Anonymous member: We aim to take Westboro Baptist Church offline permanently

A nameless member of the hacker activist group “Anonymous” took credit on Wednesday for releasing a trove of information pertaining to members of the Westboro Baptist Church and claimed his group is planning to permanently wipe the hate group off the Internet.

“We’re starting out with their websites,” the person told progressive talk show host David Pakman. “As far as we know, the Jester — he’s an internationally known hacker himself — has taken down 18 of the 19 Westboro Baptist Church websites permanently. The only one we know of right now is GofHatesFags.com.”

Despite the claim, there appear to be 10 Westboro Baptist Church domains currently in operation, including AmericaIsDoomed.com, JewsKilledJesus.com and GodHatesIslam.com, among others.

Pakman inquired whether they believe that breaking the law to orchestrate the hack would be morally proper, and the hacker basically said yes, but admitted that they’ve not yet broken any laws in their campaign against the church, explaining that the earlier leak was accomplished purely with searches of publicly available information.

Raw Story (http://s.tt/1xrsG)

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Anonymous member: We aim to take Westboro Baptist Church offline permanently (Original Post) Playinghardball Dec 2012 OP
If I believed in God I'd say that Anonymous was doing God's work catbyte Dec 2012 #1
I only found 1 of their many sites that is down. All the others are up and running right now. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #2

catbyte

(34,408 posts)
1. If I believed in God I'd say that Anonymous was doing God's work
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 05:59 PM
Dec 2012

Since I don't, I'll just say, "Hell, yeah!" Stick it to those haters until they squirm and finally lose their tax-exempt status.

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