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Hacker Collective Attacks KKK Sites (theepochtimes.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the tweeting-for-social-justice dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A KKK web site went offline for several hours Saturday, part of an ongoing attack campaign being attributed to "several hacker collectives, including Anonymous and BinarySec, under a loosely-coordinated operation theyâ(TM)re calling #OpKKK." The Epoch Times newspaper reports that "Over the course of the last couple months, websites belonging to the KKK flicked off and on, members of the hate group have had their identities posted online, and their recruiting efforts have been attacked." Saturday's DDoS attack and others are being chronicled on Twitter with the hashtag #OpKKK, prompting the newspaper to describe the collective as "very active".

"Part of OpKKK is bringing attention to the fact that these groups are not dead and are in fact finding a new life online..." one attacker told the newspaper. "We private citizens have the right to pass judgment and respond to hate speech and those who perpetuate these dangerous ideals...and there are consequences."

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  1. Zealots. by SuricouRaven · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even the KKK deserves their freedom of speech. I might support a temporary disruption of service purposes of raising awareness of an issue - the online equivalent of a sit-in protest - but I think everyone is already aware that the KKK exists.

    1. Re:Zealots. by jafiwam · · Score: 4, Insightful

      But that doesn't give anybody the right to harm you.

      and i never claimed it did.

      [Sigh]

      By asserting it's just to take down someone's web servers because you don't believe in their message, you did assert exactly that.

      The provider could take the web sites down because they don't like the site's speech, outside parties don't have a right to interfere with the consensual transaction of third parties. And that's exactly what you are advocating.

    2. Re: Zealots. by MightyMartian · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, they're both hateful. One just wants all the Jews dead, the other just wants the Jews moved somewhere else. I'd say the latter inevitably leads to the former, because you're going to find people don't want to move, or perhaps cannot, and thus you start with Hitler's ideas of moving all the Jews to one location,and ends with Auschwitz.

      Sorry, "ethno nationalism" is racism. It is a repugnant creed concocted by evil people.

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  2. No place by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    "We private citizens have the right to pass judgment and respond to hate speech and those who perpetuate these dangerous ideals...and there are consequences."

    There is no place for vigilantism in a civil society. Use your words. But first, get a life.

  3. Dangerous Zealots. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    FTA: "Groups like the KKK are protected by free speech. Zombie Ghost said, however, that only the government isn’t allowed to infringe on free speech, and that “We private citizens have the right to pass judgment and respond to hate speech and those who perpetuate these dangerous ideals and there are consequences.”"

    I've been hearing this misunderstanding of free speech more and more. He is right, in that we have a right to pass judgement as private citizens. He is wrong in the part left unsaid. Private citizens do NOT have a right to impose "consequences", especially when those consequences are illegal.

    1. Re:Dangerous Zealots. by Bearhouse · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Mod up.
      As private citizens we cannot "pass judgement" - that's for the courts.
      We can have an opinion, and should respond to this kind of crap by voicing it.
      Legally.

    2. Re:Dangerous Zealots. by AK+Marc · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "When spouting off your mistaken and deceptive rants"

      No, nothing hateful or biased in that question. As I said, the deliberately trolling questions were deliberately trolling.

      And the second was accusations of elitism, without a question in there (other than, why are you an elitist).

      Both of those questions were obvious trolls. Neither asked a question that would have resulted in an interesting answer.

      Your complaint is "someone downmodded the obvious trolls" That makes you the troll.

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  4. meh by arbiter1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shocked they haven't tried to change the pages with support ad's for trump to try to push he is racist some more. At this point KKK has been pretty peaceful and certain other group won't say (#blacklivesmatterbutnottootherblacklives) are ones that loot and burn buildings down when they find an something that happens they can protest for even when the something is for a criminal that played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.

    1. Re:meh by bobo_1968 · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Shocked they haven't tried to change the pages with support ad's for trump to try to push he is racist some more. At this point KKK has been pretty peaceful and certain other group won't say (#blacklivesmatterbutnottootherblacklives) are ones that loot and burn buildings down when they find an something that happens they can protest for even when the something is for a criminal that played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.

      Defending the KKK while denigrating black civil rights activists, +4 insightful? Yup, /. isn't racist at all. Cue the -1 hate chorus.

  5. Will they take down Black Lives Matter too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    and the New Black Panthers? when it comes to racism there is plenty of blame to go around