The current story involving our beloved petrol leader Jeremy Clarkson’s deferment from the BBC has us all on the border of our chair, as this newest hullabaloo not only puts his prospect on Top Gear on unstable ground, but endangers the show’s prospect in general. Many people have shown him support, from an on-line appeal to British Prime Minister David Cameron saying that he is a fan. Clarkson’s got friends in high places, it appears, but according to a statement, he’s got contacts in low places, too.
To go over how this all started, Clarkson supposedly threw a punch at a Top Gear maker over not being given the food he wanted after a long shooting. This has caused him to be suspended from the BBC alongside the final three episodes of the show delayed for an indefinite period.
Among the buzz of followers, The Mirror is reporting that the militant group Anonymous has threatened the BBC with a DDoS assault if Clarkson isn’t restored. This kind of net attack overpowers a site with traffic desires, efficiently closing it down.
The report maintains that an open letter to the BBC made these statements, making the hacker job as #OpBringBackClarkson saying ‘You don’t want to anger 300 million people…’ and ;BBC you are cautioned… DDOS cannons will fire if you don’t obey this.’
Sounds like Ol’ Clarkson has the strength of net justice behind him. A closer look tells a faintly unlike story.
First off, there is barely an authorized source for a group called Anonymous for the understandable reasons, so it’s hard to peg for sure when somebody is talking on the association’s behalf. Typically, connected twitter accounts like @YourAnonNews, which has over a million supporters, point to what’s trending among the group, and #OpBringBackClarkson actually isn’t up there. Like, at all.
As of this text, 11 people have used the hashtag on twitter. 11.
Looking at many twitter accounts and sites disclose that their upheaval is more focused on things like the fresh Ferguson remonstrations and other grave topics of fighting across the world. No one is actually talking about their beloved car show host.
Definitely then, this “open letter” would have more info? It may if you can look for it. For all this chat of an open letter, any explorations and stories send just submit back to the original Mirror article, with no links going to the BBC open letter. In fact, the only way we found it was to tweet the writer of the post himself.
The letter does not say much else further than what we referred, save for linking to the Change.org petition and the taking back of Anonymous ‘we are multitude dictum.
Again, the tricky thing about dealing with a faction called Anonymous is, well, they are unidentified. We are not suggestive of that the threat being false, but the proof indicating that it may be is vague at best.
