Hacking a twitter account and a privately owned website for the purpose of damaging them is a criminal act. Are you saying it is ok if you disagree with the opinions of the owner?
"The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy."
Throughout their 150 year history, they have committed countless murders, arsons, beatings and reigns of terror & intimidation on those who they are aligned against.
Let me tell you, it's really fucking hard for me to muster one single sliver of sympathy for them.
A crime? Sure. But I can tell you this though, I'm sure the investigation ranks mighty low on the FBI's list of priorities.
I understand that they're undesirables. My contention is that crimes comitted against criminals are still crimes. If I punch a heroin dealer in the face and smash his phone I have put him out of business for a few minutes and may have indirectly saved a life that day, but I have comitted a crime doing it.
@pokethebear Dude, nobody's arguing the legality of the situation. Of course we all know that hacking someone's account is illegal. We're just saying that if your whole doctrine is based around racial discrimination, hatred, and violence, with a history of criminal acts including murder and beatings as @smitty already said, exposing you for what you are is doing the rest of the world a service. And no this isn't about "punishing people for having different opinions", these Ku Klux Klan members can't and won't be punished by law for their horrendous opinions (unless said member actually acted upon them and assaulted someone of course), it's just showing the world who stands behind these opinions. And as I already said, it's just names, there's a very slim chance that someone would trace a name to a person since there are so many people with the same name.
Your statement that so many people have the same name is part of my argument. John Smith might get turned down for promotion or denied medical care by somebody that thinks he is THE John Smith from the klan list. Somebody might target him for assault or robbery.
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News agencies in New York State decided a few years ago that publishing names and addresses of firearms owners in newspapers would serve their agenda. FOIA gave them access and some areas saw people's names published. Some county clerks fought back and gave us the option to opt out of having our information released. The general consensus was that these published lists would make these people targets.
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Fighting an idea you despise with criminal activity is still a crime.
They hacked into their Twitter, shut their website down and released the names of 350 members.
"The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy."
Throughout their 150 year history, they have committed countless murders, arsons, beatings and reigns of terror & intimidation on those who they are aligned against.
Let me tell you, it's really fucking hard for me to muster one single sliver of sympathy for them.
A crime? Sure. But I can tell you this though, I'm sure the investigation ranks mighty low on the FBI's list of priorities.
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News agencies in New York State decided a few years ago that publishing names and addresses of firearms owners in newspapers would serve their agenda. FOIA gave them access and some areas saw people's names published. Some county clerks fought back and gave us the option to opt out of having our information released. The general consensus was that these published lists would make these people targets.
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Fighting an idea you despise with criminal activity is still a crime.