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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Re:150,000 deaths per year

[corbettw]

That's completely false. ExxonMobil and the other Gas/Oil companies are directly in league with the automobile companies. Their chairmen serve on each other boards. Really? Because according to his bio at ExxonMobile's site, Rex W. Tillerson (the Chairman of ExxonMobile) doesn't sit on the boards of any automobile manufacturers. He does sit on a number of non-profit and NGO boards, though.

Details:http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/About/ OurManagement/Corp_OM_Tillerson.asp

Looks like you're wrong about that one, at least.