{"id":9066,"date":"2012-01-15T22:03:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T06:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2012-01-15T22:02:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T06:02:14","slug":"what-anonymous-doesnt-have-a-superpac-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9066","title":{"rendered":"What? Anonymous Doesn’t Have a SuperPAC Either?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

How out of touch are some in Congress? This out of touch…<\/p>\n

In the fight against the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)<\/a> working it’s way through Congress — a bill with bi-partisan support, but opposed by many in the Internet community who charge that it will result in government censorship and the dampening of free speech — the hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched “Operation Hiroshima” against governmental and corporate supporters of the bill.<\/p>\n

The group has now posted some personal information of Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes and Viacom\/CBS’ Sumner Redstone online, and several lawmakers and their aides have also become targets of the worldwide citizens brigade of “outlaw” hackers.<\/p>\n

So, here comes the “out of touch” part. As David Ferguson at RAW STORY highlights<\/a> [emphasis ours<\/i>]:<\/p>\n

One 25-year-old Congressional aide’s face was superimposed on to pornographic images by a purportedly ‘Anonymous’-affiliated group. Another aide expressed bafflement as to why hackers would resort to these types of tactics, saying<\/a>, “Why can’t they just hire a lobbyist like everyone else?”\u009d<\/b><\/div>\n

Sigh…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How out of touch are some in Congress? This out of touch… In the fight against the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) working it’s way through Congress — a bill with bi-partisan support, but opposed by many in the Internet community who charge that it will result in government censorship and the dampening of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,198,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-us-house","category-us-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}