You may have heard of Conover Kennard, who writes under the pen name Anomaly at FreakOutNation. Her work is timely, brilliant, and sometimes rubs bigots and assholes the wrong way. Which in my book is all the more reason to love and support her. We at Liberal America are constantly inspired and amazed by the sheer enormity of her awesomeness.
And it turns out that Kennard has some very powerful friends in high places on the World Wide Web. Perhaps you’ve heard of the hacktivist group Anonymous?
Just recently, someone going by the name “Thomas Klan” began harassing Kennard on Twitter, and in return “Amped Attacks” decided to come to the defense of Kennard. How “Amped” took revenge is nothing short of superb perfection: He took down Klan websites online. As Kennard explains of her friend:
“He’s not a partisan guy and usually aims at ISIS sites – but we’re friends. So, he saw the Klansman that usually trolls me.”
Faster than you can say the Klan is evil and ignorant, KKK web sites began to disappear from the face of the Internet.
Take a look at some of the tweets posted by “Amped Attacks” shortly after he began his delicious payback on “Thomas Klan” and his knuckle-dragging minions:
Then the birdbrained “Thomas Klan” dared to mention which Klan site he preferred to hang out on, and that was akin to waving a red cape in front of an angry bull. Kennard noted:
“The KKK guy said which site he goes to. Well, that was like inviting Amped to take it down…so he did.”
The site “Thomas Klan” referred to is the online home of the Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK, which threatened the lives of members of Anonymous during the protests which erupted after Michael Brown’s murder in Ferguson, Missouri.
Once again, “Amped Attacks” took to Twitter to taunt “Thomas Klan”:
Moral of the story: Careful who you make enemies with online. A friend of a friend may just decide to declare cyberwar on you. And here’s a special message for “Thomas Klan” and all the tiny-brained asshated jerkweeds like him who feel a need to hate and then hate some more: You got what you deserved, and in my humble opinion it wasn’t nearly enough.
h/t AddictingInfo
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