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Follow Up: Operation Fox Hunt By Anonymous

Posted by on November 7, 2011 at 1:33 am. 1 Comments :

A couple of weeks ago, Anonymous posted a video announcing Operation Fox Hunt:

“Fox News is now a target of Anonymous because of their continued propaganda against the Occupations. Those such as Sean Hannity are attacking the credentials as well as the character of the Occupiers and this can no longer be allowed. […]

“Anonymous will not only shut down Fox News, we will also engage in a propaganda campaign of our own to show them how it feels to be chastised. Fox News, your time has come.”

The target date for the cyber-attack was November 5. So far as I know Fox News continued to broadcast throughout the weekend and their web site remained accessible. However, the Fox Nation web site no longer has a place to login and there are no comments on any posting, even those that go back months.

Could Anonymous be responsible for this? Might Fox have just removed those features to prevent any mischief? Is it just a period of scheduled maintenance? Only Guy Fawkes knows for sure.

Uh Oh: Anonymous Announces Operation Fox Hunt

Posted by on October 24, 2011 at 12:44 am. 8 Comments :

Cyber-vigilantes Anonymous have announced a new campaign to punish Fox News for belittling the Occupy Wall Street protesters as “filthy,” “disgusting,” and “dirty,”. Operation Fox Hunt aims to shut down Fox News’ web site on November 5th. The video announcement (below) says in part that…

“Fox News is now a target of Anonymous because of their continued propaganda against the Occupations. Those such as Sean Hannity are attacking the credentials as well as the character of the Occupiers and this can no longer be allowed. […]

“Anonymous will not only shut down Fox News, we will also engage in a propaganda campaign of our own to show them how it feels to be chastised. Fox News, your time has come.”

While I can’t condone actions that disrupt web site operations, Fox News certainly deserves to be chastised for their blatant misrepresentation and bias with regard to the Occupy movement (and pretty much everything else they put on the air). Their standard approach to reporting is to slander those with whom they disagree and serve as press agents for their ideological allies. They specialize in puerile insults and character assassination. It is impossible to watch Fox without hearing them call the protesters (or the President) Marxists. And that’s probably what they’ll call Anonymous if they even bother to report this threat.

Stay tuned. November 5th is just two weeks away. And as comment a-j notes beloew, it is also Guy Fawkes Day.