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04-19-2017, 04:54 PM
This Redditor is trolling the Conservatives with these sneaky websites
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In the wake of Theresa May's sudden general election an**uncement on Tuesday, Britain is in full meltdown mode (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/theresa-may-general-election-reaction/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).
Some people are taking advantage of the chaos, though.
SEE ALSO: This woman's outraged response to the general election has gone gloriously viral (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/brenda-uk-general-election-reaction/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Shortly after the news of the election broke, Reddit user u/justthisguyik**w took to r/unitedkingdom (https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/) to share some exciting news — they'd purchased the domains conservatives2017.co.uk (http://conservatives2017.co.uk), conservatives2017.uk (http://conservatives2017.uk), and conservatives2017.com (http://conservatives2017.com) and they were redirecting all of the websites in order to troll the Conservative Party.
Originally the Redditor was redirecting the URLs to a negative article about the Conservatives, but after some advice from fellow Redditors they decided to change tactic. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/19/redditor-trolling-conservatives-domains/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Uk (http://mashable.com/category/uk/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Trolling (http://mashable.com/category/trolling/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Domains (http://mashable.com/category/domains/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Conservative Party (http://mashable.com/category/conservative-party/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Conservatives (http://mashable.com/category/conservatives/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/8cbDJgO-Xu0
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In the wake of Theresa May's sudden general election an**uncement on Tuesday, Britain is in full meltdown mode (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/theresa-may-general-election-reaction/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).
Some people are taking advantage of the chaos, though.
SEE ALSO: This woman's outraged response to the general election has gone gloriously viral (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/brenda-uk-general-election-reaction/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Shortly after the news of the election broke, Reddit user u/justthisguyik**w took to r/unitedkingdom (https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/) to share some exciting news — they'd purchased the domains conservatives2017.co.uk (http://conservatives2017.co.uk), conservatives2017.uk (http://conservatives2017.uk), and conservatives2017.com (http://conservatives2017.com) and they were redirecting all of the websites in order to troll the Conservative Party.
Originally the Redditor was redirecting the URLs to a negative article about the Conservatives, but after some advice from fellow Redditors they decided to change tactic. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/19/redditor-trolling-conservatives-domains/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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