Anonymous announces its plan to destroy facebook

[ZeZZZZevy]

I'm not the hardest facebooker, but I do use it to keep in touch with my friends when I'm 5 hours away at college

I'd be sad to see it go.

But anyway, what? Is there even a reason here? Usually they have some overblown philosophical reason behind ruining someone's day

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

So can we finally agree that Anonymous is longer some under-dog group fighting for people but rather has finally revealed themselves to be the self-serving cunts who don't actually understand anything and just like bullying people that they are?

Can I finally get an "I told you so!" in here?!

I'm with ya. I never liked Anon. Committing a crime makes you a criminal no matter what excuse you give.

 

[HooterNanny]

That's awesome. i don't use facebook enough to care, and I'd be interested to see if they can pull this off.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

It'll be fun to watch Anon duke it out with Zuckerberg, no doubt - and if facebook goes down, then hey, I still got MSN, or possibly google + later, amirite?

 

[FernandoV]

Come on Anon! Use you're powers for good and take out ED or Topix!

ED doesn't exist anymore, the asshole who ran it turned it into a SFW website so he (or she?) could sell it off.

actually, ED is back. http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Main_Page

Thank Jesus!

 

[Drizzitdude]

Internet terrorists for somehow think they are in the right. Shit happens.

 

[Sovvolf]

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So basically fascism... Got ya The whole "People should only be allowed to do what I think they should do" kind of thinking. Seriously, your whole argument sounds like that of a terrorists, whose got it into his mind that he's doing it for the greater good.

Most terrorists think that. They think that they're doing it for the greater good, to them it makes sense. They don't care who suffers from they're actions, they're trying to shape the world to how they see it fit. The current terrorist squad that's going around and this whole war on terror thing started had the same thought with religion.

They pretty much thought everyone should follow their religion to a tee because they'd go to heaven. However they felt that those that weren't were a bad influence on those that were (probably in the same vain of your smoking analogy) and thus needed to be taken out in order to make the world a better place.

This is pretty much the same argument. Your think the world would be a better place if people weren't free to share their own personal information. Though those that are, are a bad influence on those that aren't and thus should be taken care of. Though (hopefully) without murders but just by attacking the sites they use. All in the name of internet freedom and the greater good.

Though it isn't for the greater good. People are using facebook because they like to get into contact with their own friends, talk, share info with their friends, they can do this freely with their own freewill.

Anon apparently wants to stop that because they don't think people shouldn't be allowed to share info or do things they don't like. So in order to do that, they attack the big website for that. Do you see the flaw here in the whole "For internet freedom" if it was true "Freedom" they'd allow those that want to share their info to do so at their own freedom and allow those that don't to keep their anonymity. Instead its more on the lines of "We like being anonymous and thus everyone else should... You don't have a choice in this neither". Sort of the "You're free... To do as we tell you" kind of freedom.

 

[Arafiro]

Why does it need to happen? I'm sure most people that go on facebook care nothing for anonymity and don't do it to be anonymous. They do it on their own will, so we should take that away from them in the name of internet freedom?

Incoming spoiler due to wall of text response. My apologies in advance.

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You have answered a part of your own question. It needs to happen, because people do not seemingly care. People of this generation think, well it doesnt hurt me, so why should I care? These are the people who are allowing atrocities to continue. The ones who dont care because they feel they are not being effected, are the same ones who dont even realize that they ARE being effected or even how they are being effected. So those who dont care because they dont care if their information is being freely handed not only hurt themselves, and by perpetuating this complacency they hurt everyone in the process.

Compare the situation if you will to smokers. Smokers want to have the right to do with their body what they will, and yet there have been many laws restricting smoking because peoples willful ignorance not only hurts them, it hurts those in proximity to them.

Monitoring the populous, having more hands on your personal information than a back alley hooker, are all bad things. However the worst thing is that the herd perpetuates this. They do so because they dont care if their info is tossed around, so long as they can let people who really dont give a shit about them know they "Just had a totally bitchin` weekend!" And its that mentality in the populous that this action is directed to, infinitely more than being directed at Facebook as corrupt medium.

People have become so complacent that they willingly volunteer real life information into facebook without ever considering the consequence of how that information could be used and for no other reason than a web form told them to. So long as they are fulfilling their need for belonging, they are willing to ignore threats to their freedoms and safety.

This is why people needs to happen. Yes, we should take that freedom away from people when they have already illustrated that this infringes on privacy, security and true freedom of speech for all people.

What this action does is the necessary step of jolting the addicts away from their addiction to fabricated self value and artificial sense of belonging. Without that break on a wide scale the only change you will see in the situation will go from bad to infinitely worse.

I'm sorry, but I read through your entire post about four times and I still don't see the problem.

There isn't a single piece of information on Facebook, excluding my password, which I wouldn't hand out. I cannot think of a single consequence of this.

I'm also really surprised to hear that there are actually people who aren't using Facebook, since in my experience lack of a Facebook profile indicates that you intentionally don't want to be social or meet up with friends (since all events and meet ups are organised through FB). I can barely even think of anyone I know who doesn't have one, and that's a good thing.

I'm all for privacy and anonymity when surfing the internet, and I respect the ability to post anonymously as I feel it allows people to speak their honest opinion without fear of judgement (and I enjoy 4chan a great deal due to this fact). For example, I'd never openly post my full opinion about every issue on this site as I'd probably get labelled from that point on as "that guy who said that one thing that was disliked".
However, I feel that having a strong online identity is important. I use the same username on every site, and my real name is readily available to anyone who wants it. I don't see a problem in hiding that - anything I say online (or any information I divulge) I would repeat in real life.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

I think this is the first time I've ever wanted Anonymous to succeed.

Funny enough it's the opposite with me.

I support anonymous and always want them to succeed, but altrough I hate facebook I don't think it's fair to attack them.

Also, that site says anonymous hacked PSN, which I don't think so.

No the group that hacked PSN was that of the Lulzsec group.

 

[Gothproxy]

Ok. I would challenge these Anon boys and girls to hack something that HELPS someone other than the crap they have been doing lately that end up hurting innocents (like online game company outages, and rural police department hacks). Why don't they take on Big Oil or Mexican drug cartels. Something that would be A - challenging and B - might actually help more people than hurt. Unless, of course, they are just out there to get their jollies off by being "anonymous".

 

[zajohnson]

Mmmm... even if it is for good intentions and IF they are right, would our government let something that MILLIONS use go down so easily? No.
I don't think Anonymous would be foolish enough... unless they really are that skilled.
But who knows, we shall see. I don't use FB as much anymore, so I guess I wouldn't be at loss. But if I were to keep in touch with old friends of mine, I would want a Facebook.

 

[AgentBJ09]

Since I don't have a Facebook account, this won't affect me one iota. However, Anon has my full support for this move.

They are correct in that video about the fact that the site withholds every piece of information ever posted onto it's network, and the fact that your accounts can never be deleted. I could understand if it's for security reasons related to national crimes, but not for every Joe and Jane who uses the site.

I can't speak for the sale of information part, but I wouldn't put it past Zuckerberg to go that route with so many users of the service. Plus I can't go anywhere without a business flyer or advertisement saying 'Find us on Facebook.' It's actually quite worrying, even if it is looked at as free advertising.

But, you know what they say: "Nothing in life is ever free."

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

*crosses fingers* I really hope they succeed on that, I hate Facebook, it just seems like a profound waste of time to me. But this doesn't seem like something anonymous would do unless this "Facebook conspiracy" is really true and if it is, godspeed (I'm not even christian and that's fun to say), these info-nazi, backstabbers deserve destruction.

Do you find it ironic that that message was on a page that was linked to Facebook?

Edit: Just thought of something. Why would you tell them the date of your attack? Why not be like "hey, we just took it down" because if you tell them you're going to take something down won't they try to stop you? Ultima 6 syndrome.

 

[Sandernista]

It also never lets you delete your account :l

Yeah they do. Just deleted mine a little bit ago.

No. They only 'deactivate' they keep all of the information you ever put up.

 

[Frostbite3789]

http://thebitfix.com/2011/08/anonymous-announces-operation-facebook/

Good luck with that anonymous. I'm pretty sure you're not even big enough to take out facebook.

They so jelly.

Because they can't start a successful social network. I wonder why...

Also, that site says anonymous hacked PSN, which I don't think so.

Yes they did...or did we all forget they did it before the big one?