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Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com)
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
Softpedia is reporting that a member of the Anonymous collective "has been hijacking accounts for the most active ISIS supporters, the ones involved in online recruitment, and has been plastering their profiles with naked women and peaceful messages."
Anonymous is also using the hijacked accounts to monitor "protected" tweets from ISIS, and they're reporting hundreds of thousands of other ISIS profiles to Twitter.
But Anonymous is also defacing 161 of the hijacked accounts, saying they're "Adding our own images and basically showing them 'We are in control'... we are creating confusion and distrust..." There are a few things that the Islamic State fear. One is women and the second is Porn."
The downside of this is that it's obvious that the accounts have been hacked. It's better to seed confusion whenever an account has been hacked.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Exactly what I was thinking... this is a group that sells sex slaves for a profit....
I agree with others, that they should have deliberately planted false information. I know some groups have posted fake copies of Dabiq for that purpose (Dabiq = their professional-looking monthly magazine, named after the Syrian town (which they control) where they think that Armageddon will soon begin)
Monkeywrench Ex Machina.
Twitter shouldn't be a censor for free speech. Youtube now keeps taking down a womans video "how to spot a feminist", which basically disses the ridiculous extremist feminist men haters. Sure you might not agree with her, but they swamp the account with trolls and get the account closed.
She gets exactly the same response as these people expressing pro-ISIS views (well at least we assume they are pro-ISIS views, the accounts are all spam or closed currently, we have to take some anonymous persons claim as if it was true).
Perhaps they simply expressed negative war views? which he chose to interpret as pro-ISIS and he was unable to combat their views with counter speech? i.e. his debating skills are so weak he hacks and trolls. But that's not the way to tackle pro-ISIS commenters, you tackle their speech with speech, not try to silence those views, which only gives them extra bragging rights.