No IT Platform For Fascists ?

When I last took a gander at the BNP site, a week or so back, they reported sustained denial of service attacks which had closed them down on several occasions.

According to this story the attacks started a fortnight ago and as of this eve the site's still out.

From my memory they carried a story on the attacks which implied that the security services would be concerned at this act of cyberterrorism. I must admit my first thought was that the security services were more likely to be involved - I take it as a matter of course that visits will be monitored. There are plenty of lefty Web gods like Mike Slocombe of urban75 or Tim Ireland of bloggerheads who would either have the expertise or know a man who does - but judging by the comments of U75 moderator fridgemagnet there's some ambivalence about freedom of speech here.

Fortunately we have a confession on this forum. Can't decide if this is the online equivalent of the guy who confesses to murders he didn't commit.

The BNP aren't the only ones. Government-subsidised lefties The Education Forum (prop. one John Simkin of spartacus, who thinks British foreign policy was bought with Jewish gold) have also apparently been attacked. By this weblog.

"They run a weblog that reports on people saying things that they disagree with. These people are described as "moonbats". They use a code word next to the item that obviously instructs members on what action they should take. This included a campaign against one poor librarian who made the mistake of praising the work of Michael Moore. If it is a forum like ours they join and then post comments claiming that the original poster is anti-Semitic, a fascist or a leftist. If the original poster provides logical answers to their comments, they then attempt to bring the forum down."

A code word next to the item, do they ? Are you sure their instructions aren't transmitted via domestic hardware (signals are beamed down from secret geostationary satellites - it's all controlled from Menwith Hill) ? I'm pretty sure the dishwasher told me to write this.

You can look for the code words here. I think they're talking about the cryptic acronym 'RSS'.

The interesting thing about the BNP brouhaha is the media blackout. One Daily Record story 10 days old, nothing in places like The Register or the Guardian, whom you'd expect to be gloating a tad. Hmmm.


But the magic of google reveals full details here. Dunno where a 'to' suffix is - Tobago ? How apt. Runs like a dog though.