Salon.com > #opsotu http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 03:44:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Anonymous’ SOTU threat comes to nothing http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/anonymous_sotu_threat_comes_to_nothing/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/anonymous_sotu_threat_comes_to_nothing/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:50:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13199744 As Salon noted Tuesday, in a communiqué decrying the President Obama's civil liberties record, Anonymous had threatened to disrupt the online feeds broadcasting the State of the Union address. However, the White House livestreams worked without a hitch for the entirety of Obama's Tuesday night speech.

No statements have been issued as of yet about the failed #OpSOTU, but a number of comments on Twitter asked whether Anons who would have otherwise contributed to the operation were distracted watching live footage of ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner's last stand in Big Bear while the president delivered his address.

Anonymous had vowed to block the webcast in protest of Obama's signing of the NDAA, his drone program, the proliferation of government warrantless wiretapping, the treatment of Bradley Manning and the introduction of cyber-security legislation in the House, which the hacker collective said would turn "private companies into government informants."

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