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Furious Fanboys Plan "Operation Stranglehold" to Take Down AT&T

Join the protest: Operation Chokehold aims to overwhelm AT&T's 3G network due to service dissatisfaction. Will you participate?

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A Newsweek writer better known as Fake Steve Jobs is so fed up with AT&T's service for his iPhone that he's calling on his fellow AT&T customers to clog up the 3G wireless network today in protest of AT&T's plan to impose service fees on "bandwidth hogs." According to the Inquirer:

Dan Lyons, blogging as Fake Steve Jobs, has called on AT&T users to show their service dissatisfaction by trying to overwhelm the network with data-intensive tasks. "Operation Chokehold", as he called his incitement to flash-mob mischief, hopes to shut down the US AT&T 3G network at 3pm today and appears to have gained some support from the iPhone rabble.

Thousands have pledged their support for Operation Chokehold (on Facebook, so take that as you will). However most tech blogs are calling Lyons and his protesters jerks for attempting to disrupt service. The FCC and AT&T are calling the stunt ...

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