I Dont Know: Anonymous are they they the Good guys????

[Alphakirby]

They fight for whatever they think is right. Could be good or bad, but I find I'm almost always rooting for them.

^ this.
It seems as anything that is morally wrong to Anonymous gets hacked,like Sony and that Church,if anything it seems as Anonymous is being the unstoppable force that will balance the scales whenever they get tipped,they are hackers for the greater good.

 

[Dexiro]

Anonymous isn't just one group of people. Some of them use the name for good, others for bad, and others are fairly neutral.

The Anonymous that goes around hacking important websites isn't necessarily the same Anonymous that send off mass donations.

 

[punksnotdead]

We are best described chaotic neutral.

 

[sergnb]

You seem to be new to the internet sir.

Anonymous only moves by instincts

Anonymous only does stuff if that makes a good laugh

Anonymous can be a strong power when true potential is unleashed.

Also, if you have visited 4chan or similar anytime of your life, you are part of anonymous. It's not even a group. Just a bunch of people who just hop from imageboard to imageboard, fleeing from hipsters, /soc/'s and other people that is not considered worthy.

See anon as a secret tree house club. When it is flooded with kids that are not cool, anon just finds another tree-house.

But then again, 70% of anonymous are 14 year old attention whores (kinda strange, being anonymous huh? see -tripfags- for further information) who happen to know a thing or two about programming.

Or I could just be a big fat newfag who has a misleading concept of anon and they TRULY are a organized society that lives somewhere in Russia surviving on animal hunting and pizza.

Sooo yeah, welcom to the internet

 

[GLo Jones]

They are the ultimate example of grass roots activism. Everything they do is from consensus of the majority, it's how they draw their strength.

 

[spartan231490]

people praise them but others see them as enemy's they popped out of nowhere and just started taking over.

Do you think there intentions are good?
Are they Evil or Good?
Are there threats empty?

I think they wear their intentions are selfish and petulant, thinly veiled by inadequate justification.

I don't think they are quite deserving of an appellation as severe as evil, but they certainly are more evil than good.

Kinda. They can certainly accomplish their short-term goals of getting attention for themselves, and shutting down whatever website they are throwing a tantrum over at the time, but that's as far as they will get.

They will never accomplish any of the lofty goals they claim, mostly because those "goals" are just a justification to allow them to do whatever they want, but also because nothing good ever comes from purely antagonistic actions. They can demonstrate quite clearly what they call incorrect behavior, but they can't really stop it, or even encourage the proper behavior. Punishment works poorly enough on an individual, it's even less effective on groups.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Cowards are what they are.

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Anonymous wouldn't do a damn thing if they had to show up to a protest something in person.

You're not SUPPOSED to do anything during a protest.

All you can do is hold up signs, and maybe call out some catchy thang. S'bout it. The balls to go out and stand up for something in the middle of public is far more courageous than most people are willing to do...despite the masks...but that's their calling card. Anonymity.


Don't get me wrong, I don't see them as heroes, but I see them as a much-needed taste of chaos in what is becoming an overly controlled system. If anything, they help fighting against the Patriots La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo.

DAMMIT! SEE!?

 

[DarkRyter]

They do what they want.

Whether that's good or bad depends, and in the end doesn't matter.

 

[Ramin 123]

I find myself rooting for them as long as they have a half-decent reason for doing whatever they do in the first place. Maybe I just a revolution romantic that get's me tingling in all the wrong areas, but I find this group pretty fascinating.

 

[sergnb]

Also I don't know if you guys seriously think that anonymous is a organised group but that would be giving them way too much credit.

Just imagine you are playing a game and a friend of yours says "hey, make an account in this site and troll them". Then you are anon.

"It would be cool if this kid got 10000000 subscribers, let's do it" and the 10000000 subscribers are anon.

If you partake in an online activity that came up as a result of a "yeah that would be cool" you are anon.

So yeah, saying "Anon is a much-needed taste of chaos in what is becoming an overly controlled system" is a bit too much. People do shit to laugh about it, they are not a fucking underground anarchist society.

 

[Mr.Petey]

They are an e-terrorist group made up of kids-teens who think they can do whatever they want because their faces aren't known.
To be honest, I ignore them.
And no, what they are doing is wrong.

Here here! They have a pathetic mob mentality that has a stink of means-to-an-end about it and never care about who gets in their way in terms of collateral damage.
They are child-minded teenagers who have a stupid idea of affecting change by way of creating havoc, hiding behind the internet because they can.

The law is the law and nobody is above it from a lowly hacker to those who enforce it and even those who create law. These inbred idiots assume they are above it and will see it as a challenge...an obstacle because they disagreed with something.

They're meant to be feared and respected? They can swivel on my middle finger forever for all I care. They're not invincible and immune just because they are "anonymous"

Oh and their Playstation network stunt tonight was an irritation more than anything. It wasn't a show of power, a display of "what can be done if you cross us" but a minor inconvenience that'll get them even less respect and more loathing from me amongst others.

 

[teknoarcanist]

Anonymous is only 'the good guys' in the candy-coated alternate universe where there are actually 'good guys' and 'bad guys'.

Are their intentions good?
Sometimes.

Do they do good?
Sometimes. Incidentally.

Are their antics hilarious regardless?
Almost always.

 

[jhlip]

I see it as good intentions and gray tactics. Could someone tell me if their tactics could be considered a form of Civil Disobedience because I am a little hazy on the subject since its been a while since I have studied Thoreau.

 

[sergnb]

I see them trying to do what they feel is justified and yet it is considered 'illegal'. Personally, to me.. I feel that they use good intentions in the wrong way. A good example is that they are attacking Sony by hacking into their websites (bad) while the reason is because they feel that they are ripping off their customers and restrict to much of the user's abilities to do whatever they want with the console they bought (good).

Sometimes, people do things for the right reasons but their methods of doing so can be seen as bad. Take the Green Hornet for example. They (the two main heroes) act like bad guys and do some destructive stuff, but it's for the good of the people to protect them. So I would call Anonymous 'rational heroes'. Just my opinion is all.. or to simply put: They do what they feel is right even if it's not done in a good peaceful manner.

Not always the case. Remember that girl that suicided because of /b/. Yeah.