Tag: YESMEN

Left-wing activist pranksters the Yes Men are no strangers to stoking the ire of politicians, companies, and lobbying groups. But they may have thrown stones at the wrong multinational corporation when they targeted Apple with a satirical site extolling the virtues of the iPhone 4cf -- a fictional, "conflict-free" design. A dedicated spoof site promised that the iPhone4cf is exactly like the ...

A new California law has worried free speech advocates by criminalizing the practice of impersonating someone else online. SB 1411, introduced to the California legislature in February and recently signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger, makes it a misdemeanor to impersonate someone without their consent "through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means for purposes of harming, ...

Those political pranksters, The Yes Men, are at it again in a stunt that, regardless of your ideology, you must admit is impressive. The "operation," six months in the planning, involved six printing presses and thousands of volunteers across the nation who handed out 1.2 million copies of a 14-page mock issue of the New York Times. Commuters exiting trains in New York and in other cities were ...