God Bless the Tik Tok Army!

[Jilly_in_VA]

Activists on TikTok are fighting back against Texas' new restrictive abortion law with spam.

Sean Black, who goes by @black_madness21 on TikTok, created a bot that makes it easy to submit fake tips to a "whistleblower" website created by the anti-abortion Texas Right to Life group.

As of Wednesday night, it's now illegal for anyone in Texas to get an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, and anyone who helps a person get such an abortion — including doctors and even someone who drives a person to a clinic — could be sued for thousands of dollars. The "Pro Life Whistle Blower" website enables residents to report people for potential violations of the law.

Black explained in his original video that he got the idea after another user, @victoriahammett, suggested flooding the site with fake tips. He took the idea a little further and created a bot to submit a false report every 10 or so seconds. His IP address was eventually banned but not until after he'd managed to submit about 300 reports, he explained in a later video.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1034008380/tiktok-texas-abortion-ban-spam-website-activists

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Honestly all this is probably doing is getting this anti-choice group a bunch of money

from the advertisers on their site.

Waste of time in any case.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. Not necessarily.

Look what happened when they tried to have a tip line for 2020 election fraud. Liberals flooded it with bullshit and the tip line was shut down.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. You're apparently assuming that something would have ended up differently had liberals not done so

I don't think that's the case then, nor do I think that's the case here.

MHO

[Elessar Zappa]

5. No, I'm not saying it would have produced anything.

I’m just saying the charade was ended pretty quickly due to overloading their tip lines. If this whistleblower abortion site gets a flood of fake tips, it’ll make it that much harder to do their little witch-hunt.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. There was never going to be 'a little witch hunt' is what I'm trying to explain

The goal was clicks, and to raise their outfit's profile, and to raise money through advertising.

This well-publicized 'spamming' campaign is giving them exactly what they actually wanted.

And really fun, from their side of things, is that the Left is doing this for them.

[prodigitalson]

11. It isn't even working now...nt

[Jilly_in_VA]

13. Because GoDaddv SHUT IT THE HELL DOWN!

[prodigitalson]

10. I had a lot of fun with the "woke" military hotline nt

[hamsterjill]

4. Gives me hope for the younger generation.

At least they are DOING something. Good for them. I'm glad they are engaging.

[Deuce]

6. Became a fan after they tanked trump's Tulsa rally!

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Me too!

I don't participate on Tik Tok but I keep an eye out for what they're up to.

[Deuce]

12. Same here...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. I am amused by these efforts

I was not aware that there was shrek porn fan fiction. According to one of my children that is the mildest stuff being posted on this site

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Anonymous doesn't follow the rules. Operation Jane has begun.

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