Every year the Japanese government sends its scientific research whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean all in an effort they to better understand the world's cetaceans. Given all the money and time put into this research you'd think there'd be better scientific understanding of this planet's largest mammals. About the only thing one can say about these so called scientific expeditions is that it helps sustain an antiquated industry which has no economic value or sustainability. Japan's government and the industry itself use contradictory terms to describe what they're true intentions are. On the one side is the industry which claims there is a long standing tradition of whaling in Japan which isn't true and that the meat is a popular delicacy in Japan which it's not. They have to give the stuff away to public schools for use in their school lunches.
Hacktivists claim to have crashed Shinzo Abe’s website in protest at Japan’s Antarctic mission to kill whales for ‘research’
Hacktivists claim to have crashed Shinzo Abe’s website in protest at Japan’s Antarctic mission to kill whales for ‘research’
Hackers have claimed to have disabled the website of the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, in protest at his country’s decision to resuming its whaling programme in the Southern ocean, in defiance of international opinion.
A tweet, purportedly from a member of the loose collective of hacktivists,Anonymous, and addressed to Abe’s Twitter account, said: “Whaling is not cultural right! Your website is #TangoDown!”
The tweet was accompanied by a screenshot showing that connections to the site were not working. The website appeared to have returned to normal late on Thursday afternoon.
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