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?"

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[Applehu Akbar]

"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.