The collective entity known as Anonymous is on yet another mission. This time the goal is to end the slaughter of Fin Whales off the shores of Iceland. The Anonymous operation called #OpWhales took place over Thanksgiving and is going strong. Although there is a 1986 ban against commercial whaling, via the International Whaling Commission, Iceland continues to hunt whales.
AnonHQ reports:
Over the weekend, a group of online hacktivists launched a 13-hour DDoS attack on five government websites in Iceland to protest against whale-hunting by the North Atlantic nation. The sites, which included the prime minister’s official website and that of the environment and interior ministries, went offline on November 27 and remained down until the afternoon of November 28.
As with many of the Anonymous operations, the collective also posted a YouTube video:
Here is an excerpt from the video text:
“It’s time to speak out about this impending extinction of a species. It’s time to let Iceland know we will not stand by and watch as they drive this animal to extinction. Brothers and sisters of Anonymous, we ask that you stand along side us in targeting Iceland. Join our tweet storms to spread awareness. Join us in combined attacks on websites and databases, hacking, leaking and deleting as we go.”
A recent tweet from #OpWhales shows some of their successes.
Read more on the Anonymous story here.
In addition to Iceland slaughters, last summer 250 whales were reportedly massacred off the Faroe Islands of Denmark. The water turned red with blood as pilot whales, praised for high level of intelligence, were coaxed to shore and brutally slaughtered. Here is a video by the activist organization Sea Shepherd. To find out more about their work, click here.
Warning: the video content is very graphic.
Once again, thank you to Anonymous for their activism and to Sea Shepherd for the video.
To follow #OpWhales, click here.