Anonymous

[mitchell271]

They're kind of big deal right now. They took down PSN back in April, they're threatening to attack Sony and a bunch of other corporations and sites if SOPA passes and they just aren't being very nice people. Hell, some of them even got arrested a while back!

The thing is though, that some people are supporting them. Now let's just pretend for a second that in April, they had not only taken down PSN, but also XBL and Steam. Would you still like them? I didn't think so.

Go watch their plan announcement videos on YouTube. Then come back here and tell me what you think of them.

EDIT: sorry, LulzSec took down PSN. my mistake

 

[Zeckt]

Why would I not? so they attack sony which all they do for me is provide me with a half decent console for my gaming. Just because I own one of their products does not mean I am not happy that they were brought to their knee's by Anonymous, sony is a SOPA supporting bastard of a company that is a threat to our freedom.

Your fucking right I enjoy Anonymous and their antics. I will be sad for every one of their members that is arrested for attacking any SOPA supporter, who manipulate laws when it benefits them as a business. People need to realize that the biggest threat to our freedom is not a country, but an alliance of corporations. Land of the free? what a joke that is turning out to be.

 

[the spud]

Anon is somewhat hard to form an opinion on considering there are no real qualifications for being in Anon. Many different sects have very different ideologies, so it is hard to describe how I feel on the group as a whole.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I've said it a thousand times before: they are a bunch of pranksters put up on a pedestal by idiots and declared "activists." I don't really care who they target, because they never do any real damage anyways. And before you say Anon brought down the PSN for a long time and cost Sony millions, that wasn't them, that was LulzSec, and they got destroyed for it.

Anon doesn't do any good, and they don't do any evil. They just do annoying. Petty, childish annoying. But far more annoying than anything they could ever do is the morons who hail them as revolutionaries or really anything more than are: High School kids keying the car of whatever authority has happened to make them upset.

 

[lacktheknack]

Anonymous = the internet at large.

The instant people try to talk about Anonymous on any scope less than the entire internet is the moment that misunderstandings begin to fly.

 

[Carl The Manicorn]

Anonymous = the internet at large.

The instant people try to talk about Anonymous on any scope less than the entire internet is the moment that misunderstandings begin to fly.

This is completly true.

OT: Anon is a good thing. They stand for every single user of the entire interwebs. Anon isn't afriad to speak their mind or do things that most are afriad to do. Well, as previously mentioned, they might be afriad of mexican gangsters.

BTW, I thought that they didn't bring down the PSN. I thought it was someone else and they made it look like they did it. I'll find the news article and post it if I find it.

 

[El Presidente]

I thought it was LulzSec who brought down PSN.

In any case, Anonymous isn't a traditional organisation - It has no structure, heirarchy or leadership and there isn't much in the way of qualifications. You can't really say "Anonymous are bad guys" because they're not linked by a single unifying objective, just a vague ideology.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

What is the use in attacking Sony if they are against SOPA?

 

[Esotera]

They didn't bring down PSN. Also they're quite smalltime. You don't hear about the good hacker groups, just the attention-whores.

 

[Sirron Kcuch]

The problem, the greatest problem of Anonymous is that any Internet thief can claim to be an Anon or just say it was the whole group.
:/

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I remember reading about that hilarious time they found an online beauty contest a makeup company was running to find next years "face of the company" or some such, and Anonymous spammed the vote so that a really fat woman would win (for the luls, which they effortlessly achieved)
Then they discovered that the girl who had been deposed of her position was making slightly rascist comments on her Facebook badmouthing the fat woman (who was black) So they spammed the voting for the girls in third and forth place to take the girl in second out of the running, as far as I know they achieved it, but the company chose the girl who came second over the fat black woman.
It was really hilarious to read about, but I can't find any trace of it anymore (I think the black womans name was Porsche, but I might be wrong) I shall give anyone who can find info on it a beautiful cookie.

EDIT: Oh, I found it, it was Portia Allen, for "The face of ELF cosmetics"

Here she is in the #1 spot (the other girl, Megan, was taken down to forth by anon at this stage)

Spoiler

Unfortunately I can't find any comprehesive pages that explain the whole story without having extensive amounts of explicit material on them as well.
I find their raids like this hilarious, the more serious/illegal stuff they get up to, less so, but they do have their funny moments.

 

[KrossBillNye]

In a nutshell?

Anon from my prospective stands for the freedom of all individuals. If there is a company out there trying to exploit others to the degree that SOPA is going to do as an example, they will not stand for it and do all they can to stop it.

Are they wrong? I think not.

Its all in prospective though.

Regardless anyone as mentioned earlier can be Anonymous. I could be anonymous. The point of it is much like at the end of V for Vendetta which I think they relate to with Guy Fawkes and V. As Eve quoted:

"He was Edmond Dantès, and he was my father, and my mother, my brother, my friend. He was you, and me. He was all of us."

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

This is how much I need to get out more: when I saw the thread title, I thought it was about that horrible "Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare" movie.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Sometimes I think Anonymous never actually existed.

Or rather, many people believed it to exist at some point and decided to 'join'.

A stand alone complex if I ever saw one.

 

[The Funslinger]

I remember some furious back peddling when big mean mexicans were going to come after them

No, I'd heard they actually got their guy released.

Edit: Here it is! [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114092-Zetas-Cartel-Frees-Kidnap-Victim-Following-Anonymous-Threats]

 

[GrimTuesday]

Why wouldn't I support Anon? They fight for our freedoms and are pretty cool guys who doesn't afraid of anything.

There is a difference between supporting a group, and supporting every single action that group takes. I don't like every action Anon makes, some of them I find to be rather irritating, but there are many others that are amusing although perhaps not in a good way. Of course the things that I most support are the things I see as standing up for a good cause that I strongly support (such as the DDoSing of Mastercard and PayPal last year).

 

[martyrdrebel27]

i'm surprised to see this much Anon support. not that i disagree, i full-heartedly support their civil disobedience, and only wish that i too knew how to hack so i could join them. like the latest video i saw of them said "we're fighting for the people, whether they like it or not" and that's a valiant effort, fighting for the good of the people so entrenched in their stockholm syndrome that they don't realize what's good for them.

yes that may sound elitist, but its true. the problem with america, and really the "civilized" world at large right now is that they WON'T give up their convenient and easy lifestyles for justice. had the montgomery bus boycotts happened today, it wouldn't matter, too many other people, no matter how they felt, would still use the buses because it's to inconvenient NOT to.

i benefit a lot from some of the things that anonymous might attack and destroy. and while i would be inconvenienced if they brought down Xbox live, or anything i enjoy, i would stand by them because they're fighting for justice.

i mean, you don't see them hacking the donation accounts of kids with cancer and draining them, they're attacking the corporations who deserve to be dismantled.

 

[FalloutJack]

Right now, Anonymous is trying rather hard to remain {A} afloat, {B} relevent, and {C} off the radar of anyone who can maim, murder, shaft, arrest, or disappear them. It is likely impossible for them to sustain all of these, operating as they do.

 

[Vegosiux]

I remember some furious back peddling when big mean mexicans were going to come after them

No, not after them. They'd start executing random innocent people.