Anonymous vows to sever ties after WikiLeaks erects paywall
What have you done for - or to - me lately? Anonymous is a long-time supporter of whistleblower site WikiLeaks, but a recent decision by the site to deploy a paywall on its website that blocks access to the site’s cache of leaked documents unless users donate or promote WikiLeaks via social media has drawn Anonymous' enmity.
On Thursday night, the loosely-knit hacker group, or rather, some of its membership, issued a post to the AnonPaste website on Thursday night in which they called the new campaign “filthy and rotten.”
The pop-over ad, as shown above, says that "WikiLeaks is fighting a banking blockade," one designed to starve the site of any funds. The ad says users can donate or spread the post via social media, and the pop-up will go away. It also says that the pop-up would only appear once a day. Notably, we tweeted the page but the pop-up didn't disappear, and neither did it appear to one appearance a day.
