NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday June 30, 2016 @03:20AM from the topsy-turvy-world dept.

Sarah Jeong, reporting for Motherboard:38,000 websites hosted by the automated publishing service Surge went down today, after the National Rifle Association sent a legal notice over a parody website created by the Yes Men. A few days ago, the Yes Men released the parody video, "Share the Safety" -- announcing a supposed NRA program to deliver firearms into the hands of those too impoverished to afford guns. The opening frame of the video says "Paid for in part by the National Rifle Association of America with additional support from Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation." "Systemic poverty and dumb laws keep the urban poor unable to acquire life-saving firearms," says the video, which is available on YouTube. "That's why we at the NRA are teaming up with Smith & Wesson to share the safety.â The YouTube description includes a link to the "official" website, ShareTheSafety.org.

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Great work from the Yes Men by pieterh · 2016-06-30 03:29 · Score: -1, Troll

A shame the NRA can't deal with being sliced into like this.

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Absolute by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-30 03:32 · Score: 0, Troll

I guess Freedom is only Absolute when it comes to being able to purchase Firearms?
Re:what a wonderful program by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-30 04:05 · Score: -1, Troll

OK, I'll feed the troll:
"Why is Trump racist when Hillary "Blacks are Super Predators" Clinton isn't?"
Maybe because the super-predator comment was made twenty five years ago during the crack epidemic while Drumpf's comments that Mexicans are criminals and rapists were made this year? -- Just a guess.
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