I don’t know about anyone else, but my facebook has had some obscene images on the news feed recently saying that my friends ‘liked’ certain pornographic or gruesome images or videos. When I was reading the news today I read an interesting article that linked these facebook malfunctions to a hacker group called Anonymous. I have heard of this ‘hacktivist’ group before whose goal is tied to freedom of speech and internet freedom. Supposedly the group was concerned about disrespected privacy issues by Facebook to its users and therefore threatened to attack and take down facebook. However, the attack was supposed to start November 5 of this year in honor of Guy Fawkes day, but as of now it appears that facebook is safe from termination but not from porn hackers. If this group was part of this intrusion of facebook it could be subtly initiating what it wanted to communicate about the lack of internet freedom and freedom of privacy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/04/anonymous-facebook-attack_n_1076091.html
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