Charles Pierce: Anonymous Will Crush ISIS Before Conservatives Do

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33549-anonymous-will-crush-isis-before-conservatives-do

Am I shirking my duty in the War Of Civilizations if I feel that Anonymous can do more to fck up Daesh's shit than can any of the plans already advanced by any of the Republican contenders?​

According to the same Twitter account, the group began taking down websites associated with ISIS this morning. Anonymous also retweeted a link to the following message from the hacktivist group Binary Sec: "We as a collective will bring an end to your reign of terror. We will no longer turn a blind eye to your cruel and inhumane acts of terrorism towards all other religions that are not Islam. We've watched you behead innocent people, kidnap and murder children, and then launch terrorist attacks in France. This will NOT BE TOLERATED ANY LONGER. We here at BinarySec live for the sole purpose of bringing down All ISIS Propaganda ONE website and/or person at a time. ISIS… Your Jihad is coming to an abrupt end. We here at BinarySec will be one of the driving forces to your end and that's a promise. ISIS… The War Is On." This is not the first time that Anonymous has taken on ISIS. Foreign Policy Magazine reports that the conflict between hackers that identify with Anonymous and ISIS has waged online for more than a year. A tipping point that forced many hackers to joi

n the cause was the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and kosher market in Paris earlier this year.

I certainly have more faith in them actually to do something constructive than I do in either Jeb (!) or, say, Gretchen Carlson.

[grossproffit]

1. Social media is a jihadists wet dream.

Twitter, Facebook and others could crack down if they really wanted to do so. IMO

[Demeter]

2. Or the NSA, or drones

Yes, I too have an appreciation for what Anonymous can do. So does the US govt., otherwise, they wouldn't be hounding Anonymous in fear.

[Waiting For Everyman]

3. More power to them!

I think it would be poetic justice for such an anti-authoritarian group of individuals who couldn't be more opposite to ISIS, to be the ones to pull the plug on their internet capabilities.

Go, Anonymous!

[eridani]

4. BBC asks Anonymous about its threat against ISIS—the answers may surprise you

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/18/1451617/-BBC-asks-Anonymous-about-its-threat-against-ISIS-What-are-the-aims-of-your-operations

Here are two of the five questions BBC asked an alleged “Anon.”

What are the aims of your operation?

Our main goal in this operation is to identify the perpetrators of the Paris terror attacks and all terrorist organizations linked to them, acquire intel to dig deep into the roots of their manpower, disable their propaganda and stop their reach on social media, release their information to the public, and flag down any threat to mankind.

Isn't it better for the fight against IS if its members talk openly on Twitter where the security services can see them, rather than being driven underground?

The propaganda of ISIS is based on advertising their actions. They want to strike terror with their name, with bloody images, with violent videos. We can not fight them with guns and rifles, stopping their propaganda is an effective way to weaken their manpower and their presence in the Internet. Disrupting their communications makes it difficult to organise their attacks in a fluid manner.