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Yes Men
D'Oh: Embarrassed Canada Zaps Thousands Of Web Sites In Response To Yes Men Hoax
Yes Men Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum
The Canadian government managed to temporarily wipe out 4,500 personal and small business Web sites last month as it frantically grappled with a climate change hoax by the Yes Men, enlisting the national cybersecurity agencies of Canada and Germany in the process, a Danish web hosting company and the Yes Men tell TPMmuckraker.
Yes Man Mike Bonanno, one of the marquee personalities of the lefty activist group, tells TPMmuckraker that the experience, in which a German Internet service provider shut down the Yes Men's parody Web sites in response to a Canadian demand, is "really unfortunate for free speech on the Internet. The kind of scary thing about this is that these hosting companies seem so eager to act in the interest of whoever has the most power."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (36) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (5)Topics: CERT-Bund, Canada, Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre, Environment Canada, Mike Bonanno, Mike Landreville, Ole Tange, Pi-Web, Serverloft, Yes Men
Chamber of Commerce
Yes Man: Chamber Lawsuit Is "A Comedy And A Travesty"
The Chamber of Commerce's lawsuit against the Yes Men is "a comedy and a travesty," according to one member of the prankster group and a target of the suit.
"All they care about is taking money out of ordinary people's pockets and putting it in the pockets of the super rich," Mike Bonanno told TPMmuckraker in an interview this afternoon.
Topics: Andy Bichlbaum, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Mike Bonanno
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