Anonymous Threatens To Take Down State Of The Union Live Streams

In case you were planning on catching the State of the Union online via live stream tonight, be forewarned: the feed might get disrupted. Individuals claiming to be a part of the online group Anonymous have threatened they will be targeting the live streams of President Obama‘s address in objection to national security and cybersecurity policy.

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An Anon-affiliated website has created Operation SOTU, airing their grievances over Obama administration policies from pushing for more internet regulation to military drone strikes that they say the president will not address tonight. They issued the following call to action:

The President of the United States of America, and the Joint Session of Congress will face an Army tonight.
We will form a virtual blockade between Capitol Hill and the Internet. Armed with nothing more than Lulz, Nyancat and PEW-PEW-PEW! Lazers, we will face down the largest superpower on Earth.

And we will win!

There will be no State of the Union Address on the web tonight.

The proposed takedown is dedicated to the late internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in January in the midst of a prosecution over downloading academic journals from the online database JSTOR. In protest of the government’s zealous prosecution of Swartz, Anonymous targeted and successfully hijacked the homepage of a federal judicial website.

h/t CNN

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