Hatred against migrants and different-minded people is – sadly – common place online, especially on Social Media but also on some private websites. It often takes ages until someone removes the hateful messages, if it’s done at all. One person, a hacker who calls himself Amped Attacks, decided to take matters into his own hands. According to Venture Beats he is using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to reach his goals and make the pages unavailable for a short while.
Apparently that’s not enough for the hacker though: Just as the teenager who used social engineering to break into the CIA director’s email account and steal loads of mails, Amped Attacks uses Twitter too to taunt, troll, and even warn his victims.
Name: Paul DeCoste,Street: 220 Park Ave,City: Church Hill,State:TN,Phone: 1-713-574-5287,Email: pdecoste@charter.net pic.twitter.com/Uo0kP76kbR
— Amped Attacks (@sgtbilko420) October 22, 2015
https://t.co/etR9u02Z06 enough of your bullshit radio pic.twitter.com/oyibHM6b02
— Amped Attacks (@sgtbilko420) October 22, 2015
Now, you might want to cheer and clap him on the back for a job well done, but is that really true? Let’s be honest here. Hate spewing pages are definitely not something that should exist but does that give individuals the right to take matters into their own hands? What if someone suddenly would start taking down websites with images of cats on them just because said person does not like the furry animals?
Amped Attacks apparently believes to be some kind of freedom fighter, at least if you take the pinned image on his Twitter account seriously. Whether you do or not is up to you.
— Amped Attacks (@sgtbilko420) September 18, 2015
The one thing that people here in the U.S. often forget is that freedom of speech and freedom of expression does NOT mean freedom from consequences. Yes you have the right to spew hate all over the place but you are NOT protected from the consequences of spewing your hate……. Chalk it up to “act like an asshole, get treated like an asshole…….”
Personally, I applaud any hacker’s efforts to expose racism, hate and bigotry and those who are behind it. And I have trouble with your comparison of someone wanting to take down pages of cats!! Sure, some people don;lt like cats but that is no reason to want to take down pages of cats. They are not doing anyone ANY harm.
On the other hand anyone who believes that racism, hate and bigotry is not harmful needs a serious wakeup call. So I find your analogy to cats flawed and ludicrous in the extreme.
We will never rid the world of hate but we don’t have to just turn a blind eye to it. We should support those who are prepared to stand up and fight and do something about it. To do nothing is akin to adopting gun advocates’ fallacious position that criminals will always break laws so why make gun laws. Hell, let’s have NO laws whatsoever as someone will always break a law!! Idiocy, plain and simple!!