UK Anti-Porn Crusader Responds To Website Hack By Threatening Blogger Who Covered The Story
from the a-screenshot-is-a-hyperlink-and-reporting-is-hacking----got-it dept
One of UK Prime Minister David Cameron's anti-porn advisers (Claire Perry) recently had her website hacked and goatse'd. This story was picked up by one of Britain's more infamous bloggers, Guido Fawkes, who accompanied his post with a SFW screenshot of Perry's hacked site.Perry, who has been instrumental in the push to regulate the web, porn-wise, took to Twitter to accuse Guido Fawkes of hacking her website.
Perry's first tweet shows she doesn't understand the difference between a link and a screenshot.
That well known responsible campaigner @guidofawkes has been hosting a link that distributed porn via my website
That well known responsible campaigner @guidofawkes has been hosting a link that distributed porn via my website
— Claire Perry (@claire4devizes) July 23, 2013
Her second goes further, accusing Fawkes of "sponsoring" the hacking of her site.
Apologies to anyone affected by the hacking of my website sponsored by @GuidoFawkes - proves so clearly what we are dealing with
Apologies to anyone affected by the hacking of my website sponsored by @GuidoFawkes - proves so clearly what we are dealing with
— Claire Perry (@claire4devizes) July 23, 2013
Fawkes suggested Perry should "withdraw that defamatory claim immediately." Perry responded by threatening to call his editor at the Sun in order to inform his superiors that their contributor "gleefully publicises" the hacking of an MP's website. That's a very different claim than her first two, but Perry so far has refused to withdraw her claim that Fawkes was directly involved with the hacking.
Perry's threats are without merit but still a concern, as the pseudonymous Unity points out at the Ministry of Truth:
[T]hreats of this kind are absolutely characteristic of the would-be bully who fails to get their own way on the internet and a key reason why so many bloggers have, over the years, chosen to write under a pseudonym, particularly those of us who write about controversial subjects and issues.Fawkes has chosen to fight back and will be pursuing a defamation case against Perry, a decision he's basing on the results of his online poll. (As one does these days...)
The people have spoken. Nearly three thousand of you voted in Guido’s consultation on whether he should sue Claire Perry for defamation after she accused him of “sponsoring” hackers to post porno pictures on her website. 2,404 co-conspirators said Guido should sue Claire Perry…This has the possibility to be vastly entertaining, but a commenter named "Darrow" very succinctly sums up this "strategy."
A man who takes legal advice from a poll has a fool for Lawyer.Whatever does result of this, it's obvious that Perry doesn't possess the technical knowledge she needs to act as an unofficial sidekick to Cameron on his anti-internet porn crusade. (Her actual position is Parliamentary Private Secretary to Phillip Hammond, the Secretary of State for Defence. In MoT's words, a "glorified bag-carrier" for a completely unrelated department.)
Remember, this is the same MP who ran her own sham ‘inquiry’ in online safety, publishing a report that most definitely was sponsored… by a Christian radio station, in order to inveigle her way into her wholly unofficial position as Cameron’s chief ‘doing it for the kids’ advisor – and by no coincidence whatsoever, Perry’s ‘report’ relies to a considerable extent on the exact same bullshit zombie porn ‘statistics‘ that I’ve since comprehensively debunked.The Ministry of Truth also notes that Perry hijacked a recent summit between the Culture Secretary and internet service providers to push her agenda (and Cameron's). According to an insider, Perry took control of the meeting away from the Culture Secretary in order to pose lots of "if you can block this, why can't you block this" questions, ultimately turning the summit into a waste of time for everyone involved.
The insider claimed that little progress was made toward developing practical solutions to child abuse. “The Home Office opened with some encouraging noises about international efforts, but generally speaking the politicians there fundamentally – or wilfully – misunderstand the technical and legal aspects.”The lack of "practical steps" hasn't stopped Cameron from proceeding with his plans, which apparently involve demanding search engines and ISPs do "more" but remain largely vague on what "more" should actually entail. (The few details actually nailed down on "more" seem to be redundant filtering efforts that do little more than allow Cameron to take credit for them.)
“Little discussion was given to the measures put forward by industry, and any discussion of practical steps was closed down.”
Perry's inability to understand the technology she's abetting David Cameron in regulating is par for the course for public servants. I'm sure part of the reason discussions between the government and tech companies fall apart so quickly is this lack of understanding of even basic terms. When government officials don't understand the terminology or the infrastructure, they tend to believe they're being misled or directly lied to when what they're hearing doesn't jibe with how they imagine it all works. This defensiveness leads to a lot of demands being made by frustrated politicians rather any actual progress towards a working relationship.
Even if Perry can't be bothered to nail down some basic internet terminology, the Ministry of Truth points her in the direction of one term she might want to familiarize herself with before firing off any other regrettable tweets.
What I would suggest, however, is that Perry really should take the time to acquaint herself with the meaning of the words ‘Streisand effect‘ before she starts trying to bully, threaten and libel bloggers.
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Filed Under: anti-porn, clair perry, david cameron, defamation, guido fawkes, hack, uk
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You've Lost Your Tweeting Privileges
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Except he is not asking whether he has grounds to sue (thats obvious), he is asking whether he should. It's moral advice, not legal.
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Reputation Management
I don’t think morals come into it. It’s a question of reputation management. Given Paul Staines’ strident criticism of English defamation law, would it be reputationally-damaging hypocrisy to sue?
As you’ve suggested, you can’t dismiss the accusation as trivial or as an honest mistake. It appears to be a calculating, malicious falsehood that he’d committed a crime. Wouldn’t Perry’s attack even be covered by American law?
I’m sure the idea is to get Perry to hand over a sizeable chunk of money, hurting her, which Staines can then give to a suitable children’s charity, making him look good. Of course, this doesn’t work if everyone calls him a hypocrite.
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He is looking for the moralistic opinion from the poll. Whether he is using that info it to truly make a moral decision for himself or just to protect his reputation by not going against other's morals just depends on how cynical a viewpoint you want to take.
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DDOS sponsorship isn't one of those actions. If for no other reason than that DDOS attacks are generally carried out through malicious software on unwitting participants' equipment.
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Let's call a spade, a spade. It is child abuse content.
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The legal term is "indecent images of children", and there's a court ruling that say it is the "image" that has to be indecent, not the child. The image could be a self-portrait by a teenager, or a married couple, or could be adults with a random child somewhere in the background (or photoshopped in).
Yes, much of the stuff that gets people sent to prison involves child abuse, but far from all of the stuff that's illegal.
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What a moron.
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Post the studies that show how cases of rape tend to go down where pornography is freely available.
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A woman with such a poor understanding of how the web works
"Hungry family means I have to rejoin the (non-Westminster) real world. Suggest all those bloggers w made-up names (bless) do the same!"
Or am I misinterpreting that?
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New Porno with Claire Perry
I am not sure what it should be called, but something along the lines of "One Hoe to Screw Them All" and the plot is that her method of ending porn is to fuck all the porn stars in the world so they don't have to make any new videos.
Obviously, open to creative suggestions/direction here.
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Sign the petition http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/51746
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Looking in the wrong place.
I'm reminded of this parable:
A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, that he lost them in the park. The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, "this is where the light is."
In this instance, little progress is being made on the problem of child abuse because they're looking around the ISPs, but the crime they seek to prevent takes place in meatspace. The Internet may be "where the light is" because it's where it's easiest to encounter evidence of the problem, but it's not where the problem itself is.
Unfortunately, politicians score more politics-points by making a problem less visible (or just being seen vigorously going through the motions of searching for the keys) than by solving it outright, when the latter is more work.
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stupid people tricks are fer kids
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the fact is most people are not actively lookin for sicko pron
so you aint gonna ever in glide into it as these retreds think you will...
better off asking the italian ex president about under age girls and pics and keep an eye on him and his buds....they seem to be the ones "creating the market"
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Opis Dei wont be happy
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Claire Perry site hack
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