Westboro Baptist Church sites appear to be down

[City of Mills]

I wonder what happened?

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Don't know. Don't care.

[sakabatou]

2. Anonymous I think

[valerief]

12. Love the Anon!!!!

:rofl:

[Tansy_Gold]

3. Anonymous happened.

:rofl:

[The Wielding Truth]

11. Yep. While the Phelps woman was bragging about how no one could

stifle her voice. Anonymous shut down her hate filled websites. It was great to see such a smug and willfull and defiantly hurtful woman's message of hate be denied. Is hate speech free speech?

[sakabatou]

18. Yes, hate speech is protected by the 1st Amendment

[TygrBright]

4. tsk-tsk. How sad. NOT. n/t

[HarveyDarkey]

5. Don't look at me, I don't know shit

maybe it was a power failure. I hear there's a snowstorm there.

[Matariki]

6. bwahaha

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/24/anonymous-hacks-west.html

[white_wolf]

7. Isn't it obvious to you heathens?

They have lost God's favor and are now counted among the Damned. They must repent of their sins or be destroyed by his terrible wrath. Hey I'm just using their logic. See how illogical it is?

[RoccoR5955]

8. Anonymous is at it again... We should thank them.

For taking this scum of the universe off our Internet!

[toddaa]

9. What's really funny about this is Anonymous originally supported WBC's right to free speech

But WBC wouldn't let it go. Don't expect to see the site up again until WBC shells out a big wad of cash to an ISP with heavy duty security protections. The Co$ spent millions getting their sites back up and running. I don't think WBC has that kind of bank account. Their only hope is Anonymous getting bored. Nothing on Pirate Bay yet, so this appears to be just a case of Anonymous telling WBC to STFU.

[Warpy]

10. They insisted on poking the crazy

and the crazy poked back. Hard.

Honestly, all anybody wants is for that bunch to go away.

[Lisa0825]

13. They have been down for days.... Anonymous said the threat from them was a hoax...

Some other hacker claimed responsibility for crashing their site. But if Anonymous decided that WBC faked the letter to get publicity, they might just have crushed them anyway.

[elias49]

14. I watched a clip earlier today. Someone representing Anon

and some freaky woman from the 'church' She had the John Birch Society sneering, cackling argumentative act down really well. Disgusting. But the Anon rep implied that the take-down was the resposibility of someone known as the Jester.
Whatever. Gotta love it.
The woman was a true fucking bitch.

[TygrBright]

15. Maybe the website's been, um... "raptured." Or whatever they call it. n/t

[Warpy]

16. Here's the video of Westboro getting hacked while on the air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJwSjor4hM WARNING: you head might explode from the crazy.

The message they put up on Westboro's site: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y2ks9cFagKw/TWa9xP98oHI/AAAAAAAABH4/hm2kJ119rLo/s1600/Anonymous+Hackers+send+a+video+message+to+Westboro+Baptist+Church.jpg

The back story: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9211305/Anonymous_hacks_church_Web_site_during_live_interview

Anonymous not only denied the original hacking, they traced it for them. However, the Phelps clan just kept poking away at them.

Now they'll have to set fire to that fake church for smoke signals, I guess, for communicating with the faithful.

[Canuckistanian]

17. Anonymous shutting down Westboro is like swatting a fly to them

That site was as amateurish as you can imagine from what I remember about it.

That's why I never paid attention to this supposedly "big" story.

[rbixby]

20. That's exactly what I was thinking

When you're tiny and insignificant, and you beg for the hornet's nest to get stirred up for long enough, eventually they will oblige. I guess sky daddy doesn't know how to stop a DDOS attack.

[jberryhill]

19. Cool. Who's next?