Anonymous - Operation Blackout

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sopa_testimony/?akid=1018.606560.JTkqV4&am... Hacktivist group Anonymous has promised to strike back with an internet blackout if the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is approved. A vote on the legislation was delayed this week and is not likely to be held until the new year. However, Anonymous suggested that this delay is a smokescreen, and that the law "further proves the reality of corporate rule and totalitarianism".

"SOPA tramples civil rights laws, fair use, freedom of press and freedom of speech. Under SOPA an average person could be arrested, fined, sued and spend time in a federal prison for as little as uploading a video to YouTube or even linking to one," Anonymous said in a statement.

The group has vowed to strike back in a big way if the legislation becomes law, and has called on its members to deface web sites with protest messages in a bid to get the anti-Act message to as many people as possible.

"Let's replace the face of the internet with a clear message about how we feel about censorship. Replace the front page of every web site we can with a simple, clear protest page," Anonymous said.

"Encourage friends, businesses, organisations, social media to take a stand alongside us in the same way. Get this image and message everywhere online. Plant the seeds of dissent wherever they can grow."

The hackers said that supporters should also deface billboards and advertisements with similar messages.

"Get people talking. Put the truth not only where it can be seen, but where it cannot be avoided. This is something everyone can do. We are legion, this is our voice, people are listening, we will be heard," the statement said.

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[2012goingNutz]

FLAGGED FOR TERRORISM! YOU AINT DESTROYING MY COUNTRY! YOU FRENCH!

[GlamalDavis07]

@2012goingNutz man you serious ,1 im from the usa also ,2 this video has nothing to do with me ,theres hundreds in youtube like this 1 ,im trying to let ppl know whats going on ,lookin at your channel comments this aint your 1st time going nutz like that ,next time do some reserch b4 you go off like that ,cause it looks like you got probs

[Fille966]

@GlamalDavis07 LoL he said the same to my video, this guy is obviously a retard D:

[GlamalDavis07]

@Fille966 ikr

[selcouth97]

I might as well move to Norway, if they continue....Norway has really good press freedoms.

[Zethux]

.....Inception music? Isn't that... copyrighted material? SOPA WILL GET YOU! =P Jk, Sopa will burn. :D

[DeathbyDawn141]

@DeathbyDawn141 I KNOW WE NEED TO TAKE A STAND... Censoring the internet may not be the last thing in the coming future... our way of life as WE know it is being threatened... and some of you may say its just the internet... but what if this government doesnt stop there?... All that i can say is what WE do now can ultimately change the future for our children.. and theirs to come...

[DeathbyDawn141]

@2012goingNutz The French are not doing anything.. im an American.. and you sir are a A Typical American piece of shit... it is people such as yourself that make the world HATE US.. Enough of your pathetic, blind, and total ignorance towards something you know nothing about. I AGREE WITH THIS MESSAGE... im tired of the way i know and love my country... a country constantly being forced to change because we need to censor everything because someone hates it or says i dont like that

[TheSmokey2312]

Fuck sopa and pipa get them all PLEASE they also started censoring here in the netherlands with some sites.. like Piratebay wil not be use for us only if we use vpn or tor

[Pychot1ckill3r]

The inception music was a good addition made it fucking epic...But anyway The SOPA and PIPA are in direct violation of our first amendment right and nobody gives a damn.People especially on facebook think it will just go away but no we need to fight it.

[TheDeadInc]

FREEDOM..... Land Of The Free, but HOW MUCH, does it really cost?

[EternalFlameofHeaven]

I'd just like to say 3 things:

1) 1984 - George Orwell

2) Communism

3) Hackers

Good Luck "Government" - You better have some top notch security because you know you're just asking for a high tech assault from every computer nerd in the world. There are too many people who know too much for their own good - have fun with your new technological armageddon that will surely be a web of confusion, deception, and tricks in the shadows of the matrix that you will never be able to follow.

[Dittomark101]

F*** America promising us freedom of speech religion and way of life they are corrupted and will everything in there power to enslave us and the world and turn us into mindless zombified creatures who have to live off the very basic nessesidies of life. While the rich sit above us and drink wine out of gold plated cups mined with the hands of us "peasants".