Web Program Allows You to ‘Occupy’ Any URL
- Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:16am by
Liz Klimas
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You may be wondering how Occupy Wall Street protesters have made it onto websites like the White House website and Wells Fargo.
Thanks to the website program Occupy The URL anyone can turn any website into an OWS protest.
This can come in handy if there is there not a version of an OWS protest near you. Or if you unwilling to go because of the time, the dropping temperatures or because large crowds make you claustrophobic?
Occupy The URL brings the Occupy protesters into the comfort of your own home and to whatever website you so choose.
As Mashable notes, this function may be slightly unfulfilling for protesters because they aren’t really changing the website, but it does create a new live URL of the image of the URL you enter and the OWS protesters superimposed on top. For example, www.whitehouse.gov results creates a live URL of http://occupytheurl.com/?url=www.whitehouse.gov%2F. Mashable has more:
“We just wanted to provide a way for people anywhere online to show their support,” says Jim Pugh, who created Occupy the URL. “I think there are different sites out there that people would be interested in occupying: Wells Fargo, Bank of America.”
Pugh is the CTO of Rebuild the Dream, an organization launched in June with similar (and similarly vague) goals to Occupy Wall Street. Though he has visited Occupy protests in San Franciso, New York and D.C., the photos featured in the program are pulled from Flickr Creative Commons.
The goal, he says, is to get more people involved in the movement.
If Rebuild the Dream sounds familiar, that‘s because it’s the movement started by Van Jones, former special adviser for green jobs for the White House Council on Environmental Quality who stepped down in 2009 over political controversy. Rebuild the Dream is supported by groups like MoveOn and the Working Families Party, which The Blaze has reported as major players in OWS protests, as well as US Uncut (which has ties to UK Uncut) and Code Pink.
Watch the White House website become populated with protesters:
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Comments (60)
Alvin691
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 1:46pmI want a site like that that shows Glenn, but looks like “to catch a preditor”.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:46amOh Oh “LOOK OUT BLAZE”
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:04amThis makes my blood boil!!!!
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BlackAce41
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:47amthe link is no longer running>>>>> to bad so sad…..
Report Post »Squ33
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 12:02pmI wanted to occupy Facebook and Youtube. C’est la vie…
Report Post »db321
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 4:23pmI want to occupy MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and CNN for not reporting the news.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:41amOh boy, that will show those greedy capitalist pigs! Grow up.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:24amI wonder who came up with that
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:45amMicrosoft, Google or Face Book most likely. They are all liberals.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:53amActually pretty cool utility.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:04amA CAPITALIST…One looking to make money. Go figure.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:42amWhen did hijacking business URL’s become “cool” JROOK? When your aging hippie professor told you it should? Would it be as “cool” if someone hijacked Moveon’s URL and placed tea party material on it? No..then it would be disruptive and juvenile..and definitely not “cool” right?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:45amBy the way JROOK..I’m sure the IP addresses are able to be traced….let’s see how “cool” the juvvenile twerps find it to be when companies start suing them? Oh and it’s smart to put your picture on there right? You’re an idiot JROOK and you support idiots.
Report Post »Who would Jesus bomb?
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 12:00pmI think it would be totally cool to hijack mediamatters.org and have it say “WE ARE A BUNCH OF SLEAZE BAG LYING HYPOCRITES and YOU SHOULD BELIEVE THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING YOU’VE READ ON OUR WEB PAGE.”
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:24amWow! A “spontanious bunch of protesters, with the power to protest, online! With no help from any organization! Looks like Glenn is right, again. The unions, Nazis, Marxists, Communists, Athiests, Progressives, along with foreigners like Soros & Obama, organizing the complete takover of America, on American soil. If this isn’t a reason to re-form the Minutemen & the civil militia, What is? Gentilmen, gather your armies, while there’s still time.
Report Post »stickyd
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:22amhttp://occupytheurl.com/?url=www.seiu.org
Report Post »http://occupytheurl.com/?url=www.codepink.org
http://occupytheurl.com/?url=www.whitehouse.gov
http://occupytheurl.com/?url=www.tides.org
http://occupytheurl.com/?url=www.rebuildthedream.com
Who would Jesus bomb?
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 12:04pmHoly F$#%&! Look at all those idiots popping up all over SEIU’s web page! It’s like popping some Jiffy Pop except instead of popcorn there are brain-dead zombies popping up everywhere. It is as if George Soros has discovered a way to infect these people and impose his will on them, kind of like being posessed by the devil. Maybe he is the devil.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:20amNow it’s time for the Blaze to do the same thing. Make your own occupy program
Report Post »stickyd
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:16amI’m just going to occupy all of the socialists and Liberal websites! Spread the word!
Report Post »Wolfram
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:53amLook into http://www.TorProject.org. This allows anonymous browsing for hackers and organizers alike. Developed for the NSA and CIA.. Used by Arab Spring organizers and occupy movement
Report Post »commentloading
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:51amwow, so if i use a DIFFERENT URL to get to an occupied site I will see that it has been “occupied”. I’m terribly impressed with this new incredible technology and the skill used to develop it. Oh wait, so if I type in the ACTUAL URL of the website instead of clicking a link from a fellow hippie then I won’t notice anything at all. They have taken control of the entire internet, whatever will we do.
Report Post »metalurgy
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:44amI’m going to occupy the occupiers.
Report Post »ndbeckfan
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:50amhttp://occupytheurl.com/?url=occupytheurl.com LOL!
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:55amI could think of a Leftist blog or 10 that I’d love to turn this back upon…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:39amUS Uncut which has ties to the UK Uncut. Ta-Da. Drum Roll. Therein lies the roots of these “spontaneous” demonstrations ! All brought to you via the International Left Workers of the World Union Radicals ! This mess is about as “spontaneous” as the Obama Administration is “transparent ” ( said with total irony and sarcasm ) WAKE UP AMERICA ! The War on Capitalism continues. These guys did not go away when the USSR fell !
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:45amIndeed, this is as spontanious as a rock hopping around like a kangaroo.
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:38amWhat mother would put there 9 year old daughter out there in the protest world, bottom right hand picture, the child should be in school learning or at the least playing as a child, the parents are worse than MORONS
Report Post »JCoolman
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:36amHow about this:
“Profits to help people”
With out profits we are Cuba or the old Soviet Union or Korea or the Middle East or anywhere dictators are in control.
Report Post »Who would Jesus bomb?
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 12:12pmWhich is exactly why (just one of many reasons) these people are moronic beyond reason. That or their minds are being remote-controlled.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:34amJust what is good? Good: is a combination of good and bad. And that’s why the saying goes: woe to those who call evil good and good evil. And like it says in the Book of Zephaniah: to punish men that say in their heart the Lord will not do good, and neither will he do evil.
Report Post »All children come into the world with the good-wine, and then depending on the parent, and depending on the fruit the child has from previous lives, the fruit divides the light a particular way. And then it may slowly turn into the bad-wine. Therefore how many people can hold onto their good-wine? In this day and age not many. But the people who hold fast to their good-wine are more like spectators to all the going-ons. And you can see if you want to see how the light is divided in the multitudes. This is the Lord’s wine-press.
Therefore this is why God commanded to men for them to give God their first-born children. But not just their first-born, all their children, and it means to give them up to Liberty. Therefore they learn and hold fast to the good-wine, and know the “Word” is good.
Eliasim
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:40amAnd all these things is what the Statue of Liberty stands for, and it is why the United States was ever created in the first-place. Wouldn’t it be nice if people could hold-fast to their understanding?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:53amThe thing about God’s Commandments is that ultimately they are not on a piece of paper or a plaque, or even in all the symbolism, but in the multitudes of people. Each person having a particular piece of fruit. Case in point: an animal activist may be reminding people of how even animals should be released from duty for the Sabbath or the Albert Einsteins of the world may remind people to treat the temple well when he said ‘The body is to carry the brain.’
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:21amTherefore since the Commandments are in “The People”, then you have to ask yourself, “Who does George Soros really work for?” He does seem quite untouchable doesn’t he?
Report Post »sister1_rm
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:34amIt doesn’t actually hack the real websites. It just takes a screen shot of the page and put pictures of occupy-models over the image. Impotent liberal rage in (in)action.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 5:53pmIt IS the dumbest thing…I can’t believe people waste their freaking time and programming skills on crud like that. Funny thing is the ones who provided this thing are freaking capitalists themselves.
These leftist morons are doing nothing but showing the world they don‘t even understand the concept of Capitalism and mostly are made up of people who can’t or won’t compete in a free market. Mostly WON‘T because THAT required hard work they’ve never been required or taught to provide if able bodied in able to do so.
Report Post »InversionTheory
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:33amHilarious and pointless.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:31amProfits/Occupiers.
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:35amIsn’t this unlawful use of content?????
Report Post »royhobbs9000
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:27amI’ve been listening to 30 min of comercials on his radio program. Anyone have any ideas?
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:26amIf only they would use their skills and talents to create and NOT destroy.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:25amHere’s an idea all you communist,Marxist,anarchist,progressive filthy bastards go occupy hell.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:32amMade me laugh at first.
They will, you know, unless we kick it up a notch on our prayers. Wouldn’t that be a payback if we got to HEAVEN and GOD asked us, “Why weren’t you praying for those lost kids?“ ”Why weren’t you praying for your elected (even if falsely so) leader?”
I have a long list of excuses, but I bet they will pale in the light of HIS GLORY AND GRACE.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:47am@Progressive Slayer — they have been trying to remake America into their version of Hades on the earth; and soon enough we will be there as the EU is about to go under, and then will come the US as well.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:47amKICK: Bet many people prayed for Hitler to change. Of course we should pray for the lost souls of the radical left who have been fed a bunch of “social justice” baloney to fill their spiritual hunger – All of that empty redistribution of “stuff” distraction which creates angry mobs for sleazy politicians but which doesn’t quench the inner hunger spiritual void which these lost souls suffer from. That’s a “change” that would benefit all of us , especially them !
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 4:03pm@kickagrandma. my regrets, but you’ll have to wait in line to complain. try reading Revelations. there is already a group there singing and praying “how long oh Lord God, How long?”
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:25amI wonder If I could uploads images onto the white house or justice dept websites? might be fun
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:58amRead the story. It’s already been used on the White House site, if I reads that correctly.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:25amWould some conservative geek figure out a way to form a “we support the police and law and order ” web program ? Please. Let’ s not let the small group of radicals ruin this country with their phony 99% baloney and their anarchist Mafias-style web moves.
Report Post »stoptheliesbho
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:23amOoh, Blaze. Wait until this site gets occupied. It’s gonna happen. These people have WAY too much time on their hands. Get JOBS, Occupiers!!! CONTRIBUTE to the solution – not the problem!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:40amTheir brainwashed trolls are already posting their “progressive ” comments…
Report Post »imperceptible
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:28amThe brainwashed trolls are already posting their “conservative” comments…
Report Post »123456beatriz
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 9:22amHI! Guys! Soros’s team is sabotaging Glenn Beck Roku!!!. Radio and TV. Hey! Help Glenn!!!
Report Post »imperceptible
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:22amCareful, your paranoia is showing.
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