Blogs hacked over political views

In conservaland, merely mocking their absurd yellow journalism is considered an assault on their free speech (as I now know). But they can illegally hack all the blogs they want, and that's considered "art."

Now right-wing hackers have taken down a ring of influential progressive blogs. Given the weak intellect that seems to dominate the right wing lately, that might seem hard for them to accomplish - but you also have to consider that this is their job. These hackers spend their days on electronic terrorism like this. And you know damn well people in high places hire them to do it.

I know this, because that's how my computer got fried in 2003. They were targeting e-mail lists then, and they sent the Swen virus to it. And with that old version of Outlook Express that opened e-mail attachments automatically, that wasn't a good combination.

The blogs - which used the Soapblox platform - seemed to have been wiped out forever, but they're back at least for now.

You want to see an assault on free speech? Well, illegally hacking blogs and taking them offline because of their views certainly qualifies.

Maybe now that the adults will be back in charge of the country soon, there can be an investigation into this.

(Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hackers_take_down_progressive_blogs_0107.html)