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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com February 06, 2011
NOM Site Flies Gay Pride Flag, Crashes
By Advocate.com Editors
This past week, the website of the National Organization for Marriage linked
to a comic that resulted in the antigay group showcasing the gay pride flag
, thanks to some creativity from the cartoonist and his brother.
Daily Kos reports on the work of Zach Weiner from Saturday Morning Breakfast
Cereal.
On Wednesday, some Twitter followers alerted Weiner that NOM had posted one
of his comics under the mistaken interpretation that it reflected their
antigay positions. He learned that NOM had “hotlinked” the image, meaning
that the image they displayed was accessed directly from his database.
So Weiner decided to change the image to a gay pride flag with a quotation
from Thomas Jefferson about equality.
“I messaged my brother/webguru Marty Weiner, who sprung into action,” he
said. “He worked on figuring out how to change the image without affecting
the SMBC main page while I worked on finding an image. My initial idea was
to post some dirty pictures, but I figured I could get more traction if I
went the classy route.”
According to Weiner, he urged his readers to grab screenshots before the
image was removed, which had the effect of crashing the NOM site immediately. |
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