OpGlobalBlackout succeeded without happening
Operation Global Blackout, ostensibly a plan by hacktivist group Anonymous to take down the Internet March 31, didn't happen and was likely never real at all. It still satisfied someone's need to generate fear and chaos online, without having to do anything but make a video.
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