Posted on 08/10/2011 12:16:59 AM PDT by tlb
Anonymous, which has been responsible for cyber-attacks on the Pentagon, News Corp, and others, has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (which should ring a bell).
Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a Facebook account, Anonymous hopes to "kill Facebook."
The full text of the announcement, made on YouTube and reported by Village Voice, is below:
Operation Facebook
DATE: November 5, 2011
Attention citizens of the world,
We wish to get your attention, hoping you heed the warnings as follows:
Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy.
Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria.
Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your "privacy" settings, and deleting your account is impossible, even if you "delete" your account, all your personal info stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time. Changing the privacy settings to make your Facebook account more "private" is also a delusion. Facebook knows more about you than your family.
This is our world now. We exist without nationality, without religious bias. We have the right to not be surveilled, not be stalked, and not be used for profit. We have the right to not live as slaves.
We are anonymous We are legion We do not forgive We do not forget Expect us
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Oh well...(giant) sigh!!!!
More power to them!!!!!!!! Facebook is a total waste of time and cyberspace!
This is someones business that you are not compelled to use which you want destroyed for no good reason.
Almost all the posts on this thread were made by liberals.
“Facebook is a total waste of time and cyberspace!”
If they are successful, we’ll see a 10% leap in GDP.....
I suspect FB has powerful fire walls.
Been there, did that. Twice in 2 years. This seems like a common occurrence anymore for a lot of people I talk to. If they are going to hack something, Face Book seems like the most innocuous.
So, you support them doing the same to Free Republic since many people consider it a waste of time and cyberspace?
I can't believe the number of posters here who support this sort of attack.
It’s unbelievable. I’m truly amazed at how many posting on this thread actually are supportive of this “plan.”
Like FaceBook or not, I seriously doubt there would be any support if the message had said Free Republic instead of Face Book.
There is a problem here.
Facebook is in a partnership with the government. This allows the government to have access to personal information on people that should require a warrant under a Constitutional government.
Also, as part of this partnership the government can require all its employees and the military to create facebook pages, which they have done. This unnaturally inflates the numbers of users on facebook, so they can charge more money for selling personal property of their users (fifth amendment).
It also puts our military and other government agencies at risk, because now all the information they are posting becomes the property of facebook and can be sold to the highest paying client, globally.
Equal justice, another Constitutional protection, fails because the government is partners with a so-called private business, so there is favoritism toward the partner. This is also known as corporatist fascism.
No conservative can support facebook and their business model. But what do do about it? Most of Congress and the white house is on the take from facebook with the trainloads of cash and insider information they can get for re-election and their own personal investments.
Where do we start to clean up our country?
You can’t sweep this under the carpet, because it is one of the most insidious corruptions of our constitution and constitutional government in the history of this country.
Even if you say only idiots would post private information on facebook, it is the duty of the citizens of this country to prevent corporations like facebook to have carte blanche like they do now to abuse even the ignorant whose RIGHTS, under the fifth amendment, are supposed to be protected.
The white house has forced its agencies and the US military to use facebook.
It’s not a business per se.
It is an information gathering system that has contributed to the corruption of our Constitutional government.
What is the plan by American citizens to put this to rights?
You defend them, yet Facebook is as close to a criminal enterprise, when it comes to Constitutional rights of citizens, as you can get.
The fourth amendment should be added to the list of abuses too, because not only can the government take your information without warrant and use it to prosecute you, the reasonable expectation of privacy is also violated, because facebook tells you you can keep your information private, or delete your account, except they lie.
So easy a Script Kiddie could do it. Must be Anon’s “B” team trying to up their creds...
While I have no reason to doubt your knowledge and information, I find that to be seriously weird.
My information is correct.
I think a lot of Americans don’t have the understanding of the depth of corruption here.
It is our duty to put it right.
I said I didn’t doubt it.
How doe we fix it?
Yes it is.
It is an information gathering system that has contributed to the corruption of our Constitutional government.
It is a voluntary gathering place on the Internet or did the FBI come to your house and force you to sign up and participate?
What is the plan by American citizens to put this to rights?
Conservatives are going to let them chase the almighty buck. You liberals want to stifle their free speech. Seems simple us right wing FReepers against you left wing anti-business commies.
You defend them, yet Facebook is as close to a criminal enterprise, when it comes to Constitutional rights of citizens, as you can get.
So once again they forced your ass to sign up and post that you are on your patio stinking of patchouli oil?
Grow up!
Show real proof that the government has forced people to sign up for and participate on Face Book.
Proof.
That is supposed to be one of the big differences between us and them.
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