Twitter has joined the ranks of Facebook in suspending Operation Payback, the vindicators of WikiLeaks.
Update: We just reported that Operation Payback, the hacking organization that targeted the sites and organizations that have been trying to disable WikiLeaks, had taken down Visa.com, notifying its followers via Twitter with a ‘Visa DOWN’ message.
Now it appears that Twitter has joined the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, and Facebook in fighting the information wars against WikiLekas: Twitter has just suspended the user page of Operation Payback, whose user handle had been @Anon_Operation. Try to visit the group’s page, and you’ll see the above message.
It’s disheartening that social networks, which were invented to empower individuals, are taking the side of governments and institutions in fighting against WikiLeaks, arguably the most important advocate for individual power against the power of the establishment to come about since John Lennon‘s time.
December 09, 2010 at 12:08 am, Guest said:
I don't think that social networks are siding with the governments. It's just that the people operating the anon operations are not sophisticated. They were posting credit card details and clearly breaching the terms and conditions of Facebook & Twitter. If the operations were more sophisticated, they probably wouldn't have been removed or banned.
December 09, 2010 at 1:55 am, John q said:
Age of Information, we say? Hardly the case , is it? Stifling dissent in cyber-space is more like it. Social networking sites, or sites from which personal profiles can be created on unwitting participants? What's next? Microchipping? Gulags? A pittance for the month and scraps for the table?
Whatever happened to eternal vigilance? Replaced by Walmart shoppers vigilance? When the hell are people going wake up to see that our freedoms are being slowly and forcibly being whittled away? When we have nothing and the elite has it all?
December 09, 2010 at 10:34 pm, Jkmarion said:
Yes, WikiLeaks appears to be striking a blow against the ruling class. Hmmm…. But the ruling class media shills keep in the front of the news. The whole thing smells!