Internet Counterattack: Difference between revisions

** It backfired. [http://thedailywh.at/2012/03/07/on-kony-2012-2/ People quickly found out that] [http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/ Invisible Children] only donates 31% of their proceeds to actually helping anyone (very small in any sense of the word), the rest of it going towards the pockets of the people running the organization and their documentary business. They were also criticized for [[Documentary of Lies|oversimplifying and exaggerating the situation]], turning the rather complex affair into a [[Black and White Morality|classical fight between good versus evil]] (even depicting [[Peoples Republic of Tyranny|the Ugandan government]] as knights in shining armor, when they're [[Not So Different]] to the LRA), and the overall lack of representation the ''actual victims'' get. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/kony-2012-campaigner-detained Jason Russell had an emotional breakdown because of the criticism.]

* In 2011, a ''[[Starcraft|Starcraft 2]]'' player and trainer named Destiny was the target of DDOS attacks for several months, until he managed to get into contact with the attacker, who tried to blackmail him. However, Destiny managed to pull the attacker's IP and forwarded it to one of his friends, who managed to not only pull the attacker's name, contact information, and address, but the names and phone numbers of all of his immediate relatives as well. After making a call to the attacker to taunt him, Destiny got into contact with the attacker's father, who promised that his son would not do anything like this again. Destiny has not had a single DDOS attack since.

 

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