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Police Arrest Five Over Anonymous Attacks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ddos-is-bad-mmkay dept.

nk497 writes "Five people have been arrested in the UK, accused of taking part in Anonymous' DDOS attacks in support of WikiLeaks. The five men — aged from 15 to 26 — are still being held by police for questioning. Met Police said the investigation was a collaborative effort between forces in the UK, EU and the US."

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  1. Lame by MrL0G1C · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So they sit on there arses while billions of pounds of financial cybercrimes are committed, trillions of spam sent, and then arrest some 15 year old for hurling a few packets in the name of free speech - fucking lame.

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    1. Re:Lame by abigsmurf · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Using a tool designed to silence people you disagree with or dislike cannot be described as doing something 'in the name of free speech'.

  2. Re:Well Duh by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also kinda ironic attacking people's freedom to do business with who they want in the name of protecting free speech.

    The word for that isn't irony, it's hypocrisy.

  3. Re:Well Duh by abigsmurf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The businesses did not perform censorship. They have the right to do business with who they want (except if they're covered by discrimination laws). Wikileaks haven't been prevented from saying anything by them.

    If I'm a shop keeper and I refuse to put a pro-life or a pro-abortion poster in my window am I engaging in censorship?

    Wikileaks can still leak all they want, Visa can come out and say they don't like wikileaks and/or refuse to deal with them.

  4. Re:Well Duh by HungryHobo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well the way they terminated the contract was shifty enough to get them hauled over the coals by the regulators in at least one country.

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/mastercard-visa-licenses-revoked-iceland-wikileaks/