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Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service

g0dsp33d writes "Fake Steve Jobs, the alter-alias of Newsweek's Dan Lyons, is calling disgruntled AT&T users to protest comments from AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega that smart phone (specifically iPhone) usage is responsible for their network issues and his plan to end unlimited data plans. The post, dubbed 'Operation Chokehold,' wants AT&T customers to use as much data service as they can on Friday, December 18th at noon. While Fake Steve Jobs is notable for its satire, many Twitter and Facebook users seem to be rallying to its cry. It is unclear if there will be enough support to cause a DDOS."

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  1. What will change? by Culture20 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I already use my data connection at maximum quite often at lunch. It's called reading /. *waits for all the JS to download*

  2. Re:stay classy by tthomas48 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While I can't understand your statement due to the lack of subjects, verbs, and agreement, it appears to be tea party rhetoric which is not based upon the news.

  3. Re:I read this as by svtdragon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up. Informative.

  4. Re:Friday, December 19? 2014? nah... by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The world ends in 2012, when it runs up against the supernatural limits of the Aztec calendar. Everybody knows that by now.

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  5. Cognitive Dissonance Impaired? (Bait and swtich?) by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So, uh, did you stop taking your meds, or go and leave yourself logged in or something? Idolizing John Wilkes Booth (who assassinated the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and then apparently blogged about it) is typically a sign of libertarianism at least, or anarchism possibly. Asserting Booth was a patriot doesn't jibe with you wanting the big, bad, out of control states-rights-trampling, wasteful fraudulent and abusive Federal government to save your pathetic hind quarters from a big bad voluntarily formed privately owned profit seeking Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum worshipping corporation, now, does it?

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