Al-Jazeera’s broadcast of Iraqi footage showing American POWs violated Geneva Convention regulations. They were pandering to their Arabic audience at the most degrading level, flat out, plain and simple.
Who here is stunned that some American bit-pusher got offended by that and took retaliatory action?
Yes, yes. All of this is well and good, but would somebody mind actually posting a link to the Al-Jazeera web-site?
Thanks.
They’re back, but the english site is still down.
Am I the only one who sees the irony here? Cracker? Nigger?
Also, why should I give a shit who invented what word. It is about as silly as calling a Star Trek lover a Trekker. You know, to distinguish themselves from those geek Trekkies.
Back to the OP. If I did not know you weren’t from the rural Georgia flatlands, I would say you sound like a cracker to me.
Australian TV stations have been showing the footage of the US POWs. Does that mean those dumbfuck hackers* should go fuck up their web sites next?
*Yeah, I said “hacker”. I use words that allow myself to best understood by the general English speaking population. I don’t use stupid terms to make stupid geeks feel better about themselves.
or, as Dr Hibbert might say:
“And Hillbillies like to be called ‘sons of the soil.’ But it ain’t gonna happen.”
I’d just like to say that I’m a white male from Georgia who participates on the SDMB who occasionally smokes weed and like to pretend that I could H4xx0r if I wanted to.
Does that make me the ULTIMATE DOPER CRACKER?
It seems rather disingenous that America prides itself on freedom of speech, a free press and all these other things that help lead to democracy, yet when regions take baby steps towards them, unless it happens to parrot the USA 100% it gets hacked and the hacking is cheered.
“I mean, those A-rabs couldn’t have a free press, they’re too primitive. So this obivously must be a propaganda channel and we must shut it down.”
I didn’t see anyone in this thread espouse this view but I wouldn’t doubt it was on the mind of the hackers.
I missed the part where it said “America” hacked the site.
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It didn’t say that. I’m not following what it is that you find to be disingenuous.
The Scrivener, how fluent is your arabic, anyway?
Hackermania, Hackerdom, Hackeritis, whatever, it’s gone international:
A UK site:
http://www.hackeryoung.co.uk/
A German/American site:
An Italian site:
http://www.spaghettihacker.it/
How to find 'em:
http://hacker-tracker.com/
Spanish:
and finally, a Haunted House:
http://www.hackerhouse.com/
No, but we might be able to hope they would have shown better judgement.
Perfect, absolutely perfect. Crimeny, I love a good (and perfectly appropriate) Simpsons quote.
Just because we believe in freedom of speech doesn’t mean we can’t be assholes to people who say stupid shit. If someone talks some shit to me in a bar and I am in a wrilley mood he’s gonna get bitch slapped. You can go ahead and say whatever you want under the guise of freedom of speech, just be prepared for backlash when you do.
This isn’t calling them assholes though. This is preventing them from saying anything, which is undemocratic in spirit.
So your taking offense at a term directed at someone else is analogous to someone taking offense at something directed at them? Unless you’re the one who did this, no one is calling you a criminal. If you’re going to make the leap from “This criminal is a hacker” to “All hackers are criminals”, that’s your problem, not anyone elses, because no one else is claiming that.
They were reporting the news. It was reasonable to show the footage, both to illustrate what all the fuss was about, and to provide a face to what those soldiers are going through.
Are you telling me that US stations haven’t been showing it at all?