The Yesmen, corporate pranksters (with a conscience) par excellence, have done it again with their unique and often hilarious brand of identity correction – this time nailing climate criminal numero uno ExxonMobil. They sneaked in to an oil industry conference to announce ExxonMobil plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum.
Now the Yesmen have claimed some notable scalps in the past including announcing the closure of the WTO and Dow’s clean up of Bhopal. But Exxon immediately rolled out scary sounding legal notices (also nothing new for the Yesmen) but often internet providers get very scared by expensive corporate lawyers writing nasty letters. Despite the fact that the right of parody is legally protected, their provider immediately took down their site. Here’s the Yesmen’s newsletter – if you’re interested in free speech on the internet, or happen to be a friendly hosting service these great folks need your help! And their film is really good watch too.
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