Exxon's Brute Squad Hacks the Yes Men

tom_evil notes a story up on Infoshop.org about a parody site and the lack of a sense of humor in a large multinational. "One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement of ExxonMobil's plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men's upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com and cut off the Yes Men's email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify. 'Since parody is protected under US law, Exxon must think that people seeing the site will think Vivoleum's a real Exxon product, not just a parody,' said Yes Man Mike Bonanno. Exxon's policies do already contribute to 150,000 climate-change related deaths each year,' added Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum. 'So maybe it really is credible. What a resource!'"

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They Have A Right

[mdsolar]

Remember corporations have human rights too. ExxonMobile has an inherent free speech right to distort debate http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/your-opinion-c ould-be-paid-for-by.html and threaten others with law suits to intimidate them.

It is their right to have no sense of humor, especially if the joke is at their expense. Please be more sympathetic.
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Re:They Have A Right

[mdsolar]

But the poor things are only trying to do right by their shareholders. Shouldn't their high moral purpose trump mere individual rights?

Re:*sigh* Corproations have too much power

[rbanffy]

No, but if you make Exxon buy each and every ISP out there you can then use your very effective anti-monopoly legislation...

No. wait...

Re:News For Nerds How??!!

[PopeRatzo]

They tricked someone into fronting the expenses for their stage and audience

See, that's the funny part.