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Anonymous Denies Targeting Westboro Baptist Church
lenwood writes "Last week we discussed news that the hacking group Anonymous was staging an attack against Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church. It turns out that this was a publicity stunt staged by WBC themselves. Anonymous issued a press release disassociating themselves from this."
Anonymous isn't a defined group of people. That's kinda the point. It's very possible that some of them, or even a single person, has severe enough of a problem with the WBC to try to attempt such a stunt. I suspect however that the vast majority have the good sense not to get involved with something so senseless.
Similarly, Anonymous can't "issue a statement" that represents the entire group. This AnonNews website, whoever they are, have no more say in the doings and actions of Anonymous than any other member of the group. Can the SlashDot staff make claims on behalf of every nerd who happens to visit the site for technology-related news, especially on things in which the SlashDot community is deeply divided? Of course not. Same thing here.
This whole thing is freaking ridiculous. You've got two groups of trolls trying to figure out who's attempting to troll whom, and if said trolling is a threat to their own trolling efforts. Why exactly this is considered news is beyond me.
Not DDoS WestBoro Our riposte - http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=494 >>What to actually do: http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=492 >>> READ: http://goo.gl/fwaLG
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Apparently some muckity-muck standards writers decided that "em" was a better tag for italics than "i", because people use italics when they want to "emphasize" something. Slashdot's latest update incorporated this change. Sorry all for the off-topic post.
"ffs...why don't italics tags work anymore?!"
Did they ever work? In the 5-6 years I have been coming to /. it hasn't worked for me once. I gave up long ago and just use caps for emphasis. That doesn't work for properly displaying titles, latin, etc., though.
What REALLY bothers me is that now, since the format change, every few posts into a discussion something breaks and every subsequent post is double-spaced and the moderation tag is missing. Moderation tags are also missing from posts in the comments section of my account page (my posts, as well as all others).
The double-spacing really sucks...it turns every post into a wall of text and effectively doubles the scroll length of every discussion. If it was consistent, I might get used to it, but it seems completely random and sticks out as something "broken" each time I encounter it.
Do not challenge /b/-tards to come up with offensive content. We're talking about a place where nipples shaped like penises ejaculating feces is considered cliche.
Exactly this. Some years back these asshats announced their intention to come to my (then) town to protest a military funeral. The family attorney, which is to say a family member who is an attorney, did some research on their MO and came to exactly this conclusion. They are a family who profit by basically entrapping otherwise-reasonable people into violating their civil rights. They're the type of people who'd stand around MLKJ's grave screaming "nigger" over and over while pulling their hair and carrying signs about how God hates darkies, all so they can sue when some otherwise kind black guy finally has enough and just kicks one of their asses.
To put a rather fine point on it: they profit on the essential protections the Framers imagined in order to give people the right to be an asshole. It's like the arbitrage of liberty or something.