Pranksters Make Short Work of GOP’s URL Shortener for Conservatives

[Modbert]

Pranksters Make Short Work of GOP’s URL Shortener for Conservatives | Epicenter | Wired.com

The Republican party took down its innovative link-shortening tool Tuesday for several hours after pranksters had a field day using the tool to associate the GOP with bondage sites.

As part of its new media strategy, the Republican party launched a new site called GOP.am on Monday. It’s a URL shortener designed to make it easy for conservative web surfers to exchange links to web pages.

Pranksters almost immediately began using the service to link to controversial or ironically intended websites, such as the official site of the American Communist Party, a bondage website and a webpage advertising a sex toy in the likeness of Barack Obama. GOP.am apparently started blocking such links at some point Tuesday morning, and the GOP.am homepage was taken offline.

The website is back online late Tuesday morning PST, and the company that designed the site in collaboration with the Republican National Committee plans to add an automatic filtering system to help with the high volume of what its president calls “pornographic, lewd” or “hateful” URLs being added to its service.

Oh the GOP, once again you fail at the internet.

 

[uscitizen]

LOL, that is funny!

 

[uscitizen]

Someone got caught browsing porn and had to blame it on someone.

 

[Wicked Jester]

And the loony liberal scientists didn't have the brains or know how to delete the e-mails that exposed global warming as a total fraud.

Christ, liberals are fucking idiots!

 

[uscitizen]

And the loony liberal scientists didn't have the brains or know how to delete the e-mails that exposed global warming as a total fraud.

Christ, liberals are fucking idiots!

Think about the 22 million or so "lost" emails in the WH?

Found sitting in filing boxes in a conference room?

 

[Wicked Jester]

And the loony liberal scientists didn't have the brains or know how to delete the e-mails that exposed global warming as a total fraud.

Christ, liberals are fucking idiots!

Think about the 22 million or so "lost" emails in the WH?

Found sitting in filing boxes in a conference room?

Well obviously if they were found in the conference room, they were never lost in the first place.

Christ, liberals are fucking idiots!

LMAO!

 

[uscitizen]

:d

 

[Modbert]

I thought linking it to the Communist Party was actually pretty creative.

 

[rdean]

And the loony liberal scientists didn't have the brains or know how to delete the e-mails that exposed global warming as a total fraud.

Christ, liberals are fucking idiots!

Think about the 22 million or so "lost" emails in the WH?

Found sitting in filing boxes in a conference room?

Well obviously if they were found in the conference room, they were never lost in the first place.

Christ, liberals are fucking idiots!

LMAO!

I love it when simple people laugh at smart people. They do it because they don't understand what the "smart" people are talking about. Smart people talk using English or some other recognized language. Simple people use an abbreviated version of the same language. A more "simple" version. It's called "simpleton".