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BBC Taken Offline By 'Anti-IS' Group (bbc.co.uk)
New submitter shilly writes: The BBC is reporting that all its websites were taken offline on New Year's Eve for several hours, and the attack appears to be from a group calling itself New World Hacking. The group claims its raison d'être is to attack IS, but wanted to test out its capabilities first and chose the BBC as a target. A member of the group said, "We realize sometimes what we do is not always the right choice, but without cyber hackers... who is there to fight off online terrorists?"
ISIS, IS, Islamic State, and Daesh are all names for the same assholes. -PCP
ISIS implies Islamic State in Iraq & Syria. ISIL expands it a bit to mean Iraq & the Levant, which would toss in Lebanon, Israel and the Pali authority as well. But now they claim to lead all Muslims worldwide, and you have Jihadi groups like Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, Islamic movement of Uzbekistan as well as splinter Jihadi groups in Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh all affiliated to ISIS. And of course, the armies of 1 or 2 popping up throughout the West, like in Paris and San Bernardino. This is the closest thing to the Abbasid Caliphate that existed in the 9th century.
"To many people in the world, the BBC is a fountain of information and not propaganda like the US equivalent."
The beauty of our system is that there IS no US equivalent. Each private station is just as biased, but competition produces a diversity of bias.