Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com)

BarbaraHudson writes: Softpedia is reporting that Anonymous, along with social media users, have identified several thousand Twitter accounts allegedly linked to ISIS members. "Besides scanning for ISIS Twitter accounts themselves, the hacking group has also opened access to the [takedown operation] site to those interested. Anyone who comes across ISIS social media accounts can easily search the database and report any new terrorists and supporters. The website is called #opIceISIS [slow right now, but it does load] and will index ISIS members based on their real name, location, picture, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts." Anonymous crowdsourcing their operations... welcome to the brave new world, ISIS. An article at The Independent reminds everyone that this information has not been independently confirmed, and that Anonymous is certainly capable of misidentifying people. It's also worth exploring the question of why Twitter hasn't already disabled these accounts, and why intelligence agencies haven't done anything about them, if they're so easy to find.

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[SharpFang]

The "refugees" adamantly refuse to behave like normal people though. They aren't trying to escape the hell in their home country - they are bringing that hell with them in attempt to leech the West for welfare support. Their desire to attack us doesn't seem to wane any over time, just opposite - they grow increasingly angry that WE don't adapt THEIR ways, that countries don't agree to create districts with sharia law, that they shun inhumane treatment of women, that they demand tolerance to other religions.

We've given that strategy a try and it has failed. You just lack enough first-hand info on how badly it failed and keeps failing. These people simply don't accept compromises. Their way or highway. And if the infidel suckers are willing to give them money for free, all the better, but that only means the infidel suckers deserve even less respect.