From Daily Kos:

From twitter:
#OpWisconsin It's not just you! http://americansforprosperity.org looks down from here. :] #anonymous #wiunion #koch #kochblock #anonops
The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity astroturf website is now down.  Try and visit and you see:

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The Atlantic: The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks
Jaron Lanier

The degree of sympathy in tech circles for both Wikileaks and Anonymous has surprised me. The most common take seems to be that the world needs cyber-pranksters to keep old-school centers of power, like governments and big companies, in check. Cyber-activists are ( Read more... )

Top ten most viewed diaries of 2010

Share8  1by Will Rockafellow
Wed Dec 29, 2010 at 10:30:05 PM EST

It's the end of year so we took a look at the most viewed content for 2010. While we don’t produce too many top ten lists here at Daily Kos, I did one last year on the most viewed diaries of 2009. One thing I found surprising again is that one of the ( Read more... )

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I decided to elaborate on my post from yesterday. Crossposted to Daily Kos. Also crossposted to we_love_nebris.

Anonymous 1, Oregon Tea Party 0

That's the score in one of the more unusual online poltical disputes so far in what is already a very strange political year--and it all began when the Oregon Tea Party decided to use the slogan of the infamous Internet ( Read more... )

Hat/tip to etrangere  (who first told me about it) and  ( Read more... )

Crossposted to we_love_nebris and Operation Mock on JournalFen.

I present to you Operation Titstorm.

Wired: Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group Anonymous unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship ( Read more... )