Cyberbullies new weapon

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I've even heard of people hacking MySpace. One pal of mine once went home to find his profile plastered with Gay Pride images.
 
This isn't really new though 4chan has been doing myspace raids for ages now.
 
He's not talking about Anonymous, specifically, but I'm just trying to point out that the media is late on everything. These have been used tactics in cyberbullying since media coverage began, but they just now get to it. Did you notice that all the cases they mention, if memory serves, over a year old? (I'm not too sure about the one the article is based around, though.)
 
Er... am I missing something or did the main example they used in the article suck? It doesn't sound like he was bullied all that bad, really. And does anyone else think this screams of double standards? Here he and his mom are complaining about kids being brats and putting insults up on a fake MySpace account. So an online news story in which this guy is portrayed as a suicidal loner who's always a victim is better? Wouldn't the kids be a lot meaner about that than would about a MySpace account? I'd be humiliated if it was my name in that article instead of "Ricky Alatorre".
 
I agree, this is just pathetic. A myspace page like this is the online equivalent of writing "Ricky is gay and fucks his books" with permanent marker on the school bathroom wall. Presenting himself the way he did in a nation-wide paper is going to do far more damage to him.

Backbones are a good thing. If he reacts like this when people pull pranks on him, it's no wonder he got picked on.
 
They do actually have people gather or collect myspace accounts with their passwords and post them up for everyone to use, it was a huge myspace raid and forced microsoft to shut down the service for a brief period of time. The protests and many other silly things they get up to. They are organized quite a bit better than most people believe, the question is whether they can get their act together.
 
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I herd u liek Swampert? said:
They do actually have people gather or collect myspace accounts with their passwords and post them up for everyone to use, it was a huge myspace raid and forced microsoft to shut down the service for a brief period of time. The protests and many other silly things they get up to. They are organized quite a bit better than most people believe, the question is whether they can get their act together.
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Yeah, but that's just one guy posting accounts, while everyone fucks shit up on their own. They never planned it before-hand. Also, the protests didn't start on 4chan, it was started by the insurgency, and some idiot decided that it would be a good idea to bring 4chan into it, and it wasn't.
 
lulz @ people doubting anon...they took down TWO forums 10x larger than BGF in the span of a week and they are STILL down..keep it up, seriously.
 
^Are you a spy or something 0__0

personally, I think that if sitee like 4chan and stuff do raids and the authorites/media know, than why can't they shut it down? I dn't know if this is legal or not, but I'm pretty sure it isn't.
 
Nope because 4chan blames it on Ebaums which is then labeled as anonymous, not 4chan.
 
Lethal Carnivine said:
^Are you a spy or something 0__0

personally, I think that if sitee like 4chan and stuff do raids and the authorites/media know, than why can't they shut it down? I dn't know if this is legal or not, but I'm pretty sure it isn't.
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That's because 4chan doesn't do raids. When a raid is being planned, a mod shuts the thread down. But people from other *chans who already planned the raids beforehand, spam their plans all over 4chan, in hopes that someone interested will pick it up. And no, it isn't eBaums that's being scapegoated, it's 4chan. Remember those Scientology raids?
 
llxwarbirdxll said:
That's because 4chan doesn't do raids. When a raid is being planned, a mod shuts the thread down. But people from other *chans who already planned the raids beforehand, spam their plans all over 4chan, in hopes that someone interested will pick it up. And no, it isn't eBaums that's being scapegoated, it's 4chan. Remember those Scientology raids?
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Usually freechan or 711chan will be the one that hosts these raids; Like I said earlier, they were able to take down two forums bigger than BGF in a week's time, so yeah, I hope these forums would be prepared.
 
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