Saturday, May 05, 2012

Corporate and Government Agencies Attacking Avaaz


There has been some strange things happening on the Internet lately. Videos on youtube are deleted or dubbed over with strange music. When you google EMF or EMR you come up with a lot of dummy sites with strange alternative wordings for these two acronyms. Now, we have a massive attack against Avaaz. Like I said, the control-freak psychopaths out there, who seriously should be in either prison (or psychiatric hospitals), but are rather filling corporate and government posts, are trying to take control over the Internet. Why? Because they fear the mass populace will discover the Truth about them and their dirty little schemes to control and hence destroy this planet.

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Wow! Unbelievable response to this, and after 44 hours the attack has abated. They could come back stronger, let's be ready -- 

Dear friends,



The Avaaz site is right now under massive attack by what an expert tells us is likely a government or large corporation. We're still standing, but the attack is threatening our continued campaigning. We urgently need a defence fund to increase our security -- let's show the attackers they can't silence us, and their attempts will only make us stronger: 


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Right now, the Avaaz website is under massive attack. An expert is telling us that an attack this large is likely coming from a government or large corporation, with massive, simultaneous and sophisticated assaults from across the world to take down our site.

We were expecting this. Our people-powered campaigning has been fearless, and we've taken on the world's worst actors head-on, in ways that genuinely hurt them - from the Syrian and Chinese regimes to Rupert Murdoch, Big Oil and organized crime. The Syrian dictatorship called our campaigner 'the most dangerous man in the world', and a UK inquiry recently revealed emails between Murdoch's news corporation and top levels of government saying the Avaaz campaign against Murdoch was their biggest concern. Sometimes I lie awake at night wondering when these people are going to come after us.

And it's begun. We have urgent campaigns on oceans, forests and Syria we need to run, but the attack has been going on for 36 hours straight, threatening our ability to keep campaigning. Because of top-notch security, our site is still up, but it's not enough. We need to show these actors that when they attack Avaaz, they're messing with people. And people-power can't be intimidated or silenced, it only grows stronger. Click below to donate to an Avaaz defence fund to take our security to the next level, and show our attackers that whatever they throw at us only makes us stronger: 

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/massive_attack_on_avaaz_rb/?vl

National authorities have been alerted to the attack. But we urgently need the defence fund to help us:
  • rapidly build industrial-scale security so that no attack can stop us campaigning
  • hire top hackers and technologists to manage our systems, defend us and test our defences
  • increase the physical security of our most vulnerable staff in places like Lebanon and Russia
  • take a range of other actions to improve our technology and security
Avaaz is a lightning rod that channels voices from across the world, from incredibly brave Tibetan, Russian and Syrian demonstrators risking everything for their freedom, to Bolivian indigenous communities saving their forest from being chopped in half. These people face intense danger, and repelling this attack is just another front in their and our struggle for democracy.

Millions of us have campaigned to keep corporations and governments from censoring and controlling the web. Now one of them is trying to censor us. So far, we're still standing, and our amazing member-funded systems mean that we can run this appeal for support safely and securely. But our campaigning is under real threat. We need to act, and show that these tactics only make us stronger:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/massive_attack_on_avaaz_rb/?vl

Avaaz can stand up to governments and corporations only because all of our strength, legitimacy, and funding comes from people, and people alone. We don't accept money - any money - from governments, corporations, foundations, or even large individual donors. It's extremely rare among large civil society organizations today, but 100% of our money comes from small online donations, and we don't accept gifts over 5000 Euros from anyone. That's why we're independent, and that's why we're a threat to those who put power before people. Let's keep being a threat.

With hope and determination,

Ricken and the whole Avaaz team.




Avaaz.org is a 14-million-person global campaign network
 that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 19 countries on 6 continents and operates in 14 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

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