Friday's Front Page Spins Pro-Wikileaks Hackers as Defenders of Web Freedom

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:31:00 +0000

Fighting for Internet freedom...by shutting down websites? That's reporter Noam Cohen's strange take on hacker supporters of WikiLeaks taking down websites they disagree with: "...the loosely organized group called Anonymous might have come of age, evolving into one focused on more serious matters: in this case, the definition of Internet freedom."

Clay Waters

Reporter Noam Cohen, who covers the Internet, treated the criminal denial of service attacks committed in support of the secret cable leakers at Wikileaks as activism done by cool people with a cause in his Friday front-page story "Web Attackers Point to Cause In WikiLeaks."