Anonymous Will 'Remove' Toronto from Web if Occupiers Evicted

The latest warning from the online activists is aimed squarely at the mayor's office.

Anonymous, that merry band of online Robin Hoods, says in a video that it will "remove" the City of Toronto from the Internet if the city attempts to "remove" the Occupy protest in St. James Park this week. Last week, Mayor Rob Ford said he would hope to bring about a "peaceful conclusion" to the month-old protest this week after local residents and businesses expressed their frustration over the Occupiers. Other Canadian cities – notably Halifax and London – have already cleared out their Occupy sites, although the Halifax eviction was far from "peaceful." Anonymous hasn't said just what they'd do to make the City of Toronto disappear from the web, but we can guess it would probably entail denial of service attacks to knock the city's websites offline. However, this is the same group of online protesters that recently threatened to "kill" Facebook on Nov. 5, and the last we checked our account, that hadn't exactly happened.