FBI Raids Texas Company in Hunt for Anonymous

[SnipErlite]

Well, good to see they are making the effort?

I don't think they'll be too successful though....but who knows.

besides that, all these little cunts are doing are fighting to keep are their child pornography and guro hentai involving 5 year old girls getting tentacle-raped.

other than that, i dont think they could give a damn about our "freedom"

You know CP is banned on 4chan, right? It may be one of the few/only things that isn't allowed, but yeah...it's banned.

Anyway it's less about 'our' freedom, more about fighting censorhip and for the lulz.

But mostly the lulz. That's pretty important.

 

[RandV80]

So much for the anonymity of "Anonymous".

Three cheers for the FBI and their bureaucratic crusade against freedom.

would you rather anonymous grow out of control and get so sucked up in its own power that it will eventually take over our governments? (i really think that if one controls the internet, they can control the world)
well hell no, this should teach those little cunts a lesson.
don't
fuck
with the government.

They're fighting for us in this case. What has happened to Assange is total bullshit. Those rape charges are fake, the case against him in slanted heavily, and when anyone opposes, they get attacked.

So much for equal stance on crime. /b/ puts up child porn 5 years ago, no one bats an eye. They help a man fight an unlawful case against him, they get rolled.

Yeah that's kind of what I'm thinking. In a sense I don't have a problem with the FBI going after and tracking down 'Anonymous', but with all the shit they pulled over the years why is there such a big effort, a coordinated international one at that, to go after them now? Well the answer is obvious and it doesn't speak well for the state of things.

 

[Dana22]

Three cheers for the FBI and their bureaucratic crusade against freedom.

Freedom to break the law ? Freedom to attack someone who has a different opinion on something (Simmons) ?

 

[viranimus]

It truly saddens me to see how many people are saying Dont mess with the government, Anon isnt defending freedom, etc who live in the US, a country that was built on revolution against a government that looks strangely similar to the one the founding fathers fought against.

The US revolution was fought against an oppressive governmental regime who was levying unrealistic taxes, imposing its societal and cultural views, bailing out and supporting corporate interests in favor of the people. Honestly doesnt seem that far off of what we see today.

Its long overdue for the people to stand up and say this is bullshit and we mean to fix it. Perhaps Anon is not the proper mouthpiece for it, but honestly, who else is there supporting the freedom of speech over the net, pointing out that the government protects the interest of corporations instead of the interests of the people?

 

[JayDub147]

You DDOS the Feds, you shouldn't be surprised when they come knocking. Besides, I don't think the guys their finding have much to do with anything. It's probably just some kids who used a program written by someone else who is more than likely not dumb enough to try to take down the FBI webpage.

 

[Teddy Roosevelt]

So much for the anonymity of "Anonymous".

Three cheers for the FBI and their bureaucratic crusade against freedom.

Against? Anonymous thinks internet freedom involves completely opening up everything. That is stupid. People don't need complete freedom to be happy with the government system. It's like Area 51. People think they should have the right to know what goes on there, but fuck that, no they don't. It's none of their business. The story is similar with Anonymous, and they will soon be crushed by the overwhelming ability of the FBI. Taking on America=losing badly.

 

[kikon9]

I'm liking this whole thing with the Federal government and anonymous. Given that I'm not really caring towards any one side, I just see the whole thing as exiting.

 

[zHellas]

They are evil. They are the Nyarlathotep of the internet, doing the most depraved and evil things they can because they can, and frankly they need to be stopped.

No... Nyarlathotep has an agenda to make deals and then fuck people over with them.

Anonymous is more of a general chaos spreader.

More like The King in Yellow.

OT:

I'd actually feel something for Assange & Anonymous if Assange did release secrets from all governments rather than just one, and if Anonymous wasn't so much like Korrok.

 

[Warachia]

I'm always in favour of the authorities showing that they have a good handle on modern crime but can't really get behind them on this one.

The Paypal DDoS attacks were made in retaliation for the American government putting unlawful pressure on PayPal and other financial institutions and for those organisations bowing to the government pressure.

While two wrongs don't make a right are we really expecting a third wrong, arresting the leaders of the cyber attack, to make the whole sordid affair better?

So much for the anonymity of "Anonymous".

Three cheers for the FBI and their bureaucratic crusade against freedom.

I love this. It is very rare to see both sides of the argument in the first three comments, and would like everybody going to post to consider both of them, even though they probably won't see mine.

 

[asinann]

I'm always in favour of the authorities showing that they have a good handle on modern crime but can't really get behind them on this one.

The Paypal DDoS attacks were made in retaliation for the American government putting unlawful pressure on PayPal and other financial institutions and for those organisations bowing to the government pressure.

While two wrongs don't make a right are we really expecting a third wrong, arresting the leaders of the cyber attack, to make the whole sordid affair better?

Exactly my sentiments, good sir. I have a high opinion of Assange for his work in journalistic freedom and was pretty pissed that the American government would pressure PayPal and Mastercard like that and was even more pissed at people calling for his execution.

Ever think that possibly, just MAYBE, Paypal and Mastercard might be a touch pissy because of the attacks that Anonymous made on them and are giving the information freely and willingly? People will continue to support Anonymous right up until the day something effects THEM, then all bets are off and it's time to bring em down.

Things need to remain secret, you don't put troop movements or current diplomatic situations on the internet for everyone to see. You get people killed when you do those things. If everything that had been released effected nothing today, that would have been fine. But you NEVER release things that could put people in jeopardy.
The Wikileaks founder was charged with a sex crime yes, but it wasn't rape. He was charged basically for not stopping when the condom broke.

Anonymous needs to be ended, they aren't cool, they aren't helping anything. All this crap they are pulling can be lumped on top of Assange when they send him to trial and get him even more time.

And they will catch someone and blame them for the Anonymous attacks, probably wont be the people who did it, but someone will be set up the river for it.

 

[asinann]

They did those attacks because they were letting the government force them to deny Wikileaks money to force the site to go down. Basically, they were protecting freedom of free speech.

You realise that that means:

'Anonymous attacked them because the Government forced them to do this.'

You can't 'let yourself be forced to' do anything. It's a contradiction. What that either means is that the companies decided to do that on their own OR that the Government forced them to do something against their will and now Anonymous is punishing them for being forced to do something.

The government told them, illegally mind you, to deny Wikileaks their money and they did. The government made them do it, but they didn't put up a fight.

Actually, nothing illegal about it. Under the Patriot act the government can have an individual's or companies assets frozen if they feel that the fund will be used to promote anti-government behavior or terrorism.

Not something that should be constitutional, but until someone challenges it in court, it's legal.

 

[Naeo]

This made me smile. I love seeing people who think "I am safe on the INTERNET so I can do whatever I want" get arrested (or come reasonably close to it).

 

[Space Jawa]

Your cyber-terrorists are our cyber-freedom-fighters.

Your cyber-freedom fighters are our cyber-jerkwads.