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Fresh off their most recent spat over the Newtown shootings, the left-wing cult reviled hate group protestors at Westboro Baptist Church and the do-gooder hacktivists from Anonymous faced off over the ongoing Aaron Swartz suicide controversy on Tuesday — albeit briefly — and in a sign of Anonymous's growing power, the hackers won.

The folks from Westboro began the day telling everyone and anyone that they'd be picketing the funeral of the revered hacker Swartz, whom they called a "fag, Jew bastard whose entire life was an assault against God." But after an instant — and instantly successful — video and social-media operation from Anonymous, the excitable "church" group apparently didn't show up to Swartz's funeral outside of Chicago. The Anonymous Twitter account reported this police confirmation about Westboro's no-shows late this morning:

Anonymous's tweet is confirmation enough that their pledge to defend Swartz's funeral worked out pretty well. You see, Westboro had been tweeting, pushing press releases, and marking Swartz's funeral on their schedule. Swartz's funeral is, in fact, still posted on their website: