Posted on 09/24/2014 4:16:02 PM PDT by Viennacon
The threat to release nude photos of actress Emma Watson was an attempt to start a viral marketing campaign to shutter the site 4chan. After her impassioned speech for gender equality last weekend at the United Nations, Watson faced backlash, including a threat to leak alleged nude photos of the star. Business Insider reported that an anonymous 4chan user had posted a countdown timer with a picture of the "Harry Potter" actress wiping away a tear hinting that she could become the next star to have her iCloud hacked and personal photos dispersed for the world to see. Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian and Gabrielle Union are among the celebrities recently to have private, intimate photos splashed across the Internet. The 4chan site is where the hacked, nude photos of these other female stars initially appeared. On Wednesday, the site mentioned in the anonymous user's posting, EmmaYouAreNext.com, was redirecting to the company Rantic Marketing with the message #ShutDown4chan.
"Join us as we shutdown 4chan and prevent more private pictures from being leaked," a message on the site says. "None of these women deserve this and together we can make a change." There is also a letter to President Barack Obama that reads, "We have been hired by celebrity publicists to bring this disgusting issue to attention. The recent 4chan celebrity nude leaks in the past 2 months have been an invasion of privacy and is also clear indication that the internet NEEDS to be censored. Every Facebook like, share & Twitter mention will count as a social signature -- and will be one step closer to shutting down www.4chan.org. "
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What a load. This disgusting wretch's speech which is profoundly anti-men, "if men didn't feel the need to control, women would not need to be controlled" AKA - lets brainwash boys into being limp-wristed wimps!
Is everyone as glad as I am that we have filthy rich, actually privileged white women to tell us all the problems in our oh so unequal world. Thank God for the heshe campaign, promoting heshe rights everywhere! Hopefully she begin by promoting equality in the Islamic State. We need more feminazi-ism, and not forgetting Emma's precious right to make decisions about her own body, including of course the right to cut the throat of another body inside her! Yay!
Feminazis like Watson deserve derision, not applause, and it tell you all you need to know that the UN globatards loved her.
I'd say take a listen to the bile-spewing speech, but then this post would require a barf alert!
Exactly. Her acting sucks harder than Miley Cyrus.
“”Join us as we shutdown 4chan and prevent more private pictures from being leaked”
if they threatened to release leaked pictures of the first lady that website will be shut down in 10 minutes flat.
Those would have to be uploaded in 4chan’s ‘male’ section of course
Egad. If they threatened to do that I’d pull the plug myself (shuddering)...
“Join us as we shutdown 4chan and prevent more private pictures from being leaked,” a message on the site says. “None of these women deserve this and together we can make a change.”
They do not “deserve” to have their personal photos leaked; however, they shouldn’t be stupid and store such materials somewhere they don’t have absolute, total control.
Someone else owns “the cloud.”
I’ve lost all sympathy for the champagne feminists. Not sure if this has been coined before, off the back of ‘champagne socialist’, but there does seem to be this new Eva Longoria breed of feminazi she-wolves. They don’t get the crew cuts and yell in people’s faces at picket lines, but they speak from lecterns in front of pre-screened elites, and are funded (as this campaign is) by the biggest banks on the globe.
Not if it was on NatGeo.
Not if it was on NatGeo.
LOL!
I suspect everybody (Left, Right, and in between) would be willing to torch down that website if they released those kind of photos...
“Her acting sucks harder than Miley Cyrus.”
If you can’t say something good about a person .... oh wait, never mind.
“After her impassioned speech for gender equality last weekend at the United Nations...”
She does realize she was chosen because she’s an attractive young celebrity, right?
I don’t accept sob stories about how hard it is to be a woman from Ivy-league educated women who are millionaires in their 20’s.
As a friend of mine once said about her “Like most British women, she looks like her brother”.
DISAPPOINTED!
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