Anonymous

[Frau_Phillips]

Hi boys (and girls? how many of us are there? XD)

I'm breaking Rule #1 here

An old friend of mine was recently "targeted" by the "terrorist group" Anonymous. Targeted meaning, had his Myspace covered in gay porn. I'll spare you details, I just wanted to find out what other internet groups thought about Anonymous.
If you don't know who they are or what they do, you can check out a report put out by Fox, but be careful to take everything they say with a grain of salt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

And if you want the other side, I guess you could go look at /b/ but I would NOT recommend it. I mean that, if you want your soul intact, don't visit.

Like I said, do you guys take them seriously at all? I know a lot of people online who say they avoid talking about them, and say they have a "healthy fear" of the group. I know they've been able to do some pretty impressive things, aside from breaking into Myspaces and spreading porno. Like having people arrested, harassing people offline, etc.

Scared? Scoffing? Indifference?

[CCIP]

gtfo my internets D:









































I jest lady, I jest. I'd like to have details on the friends' side of the story, as usually raids have some sort of backwards /b/tard rationale to them that is still in some way provoked. We don't just go around raiding myspaces at random.









Ooops. I meant they. They :doh:
Dammit, I just lost all my forum credibility here I think :cry:

[Blacklight]

You DO realize that the above post should be in video format, on Youtube, showing a video of the sky with a computer voice saying that. :D

That said, I do agree with what Anonymous is doing, I just feel that they're going about it the wrong way. I understand that now they "supposedly" have gone more legit and plan peaceful protests and stuff and they no longer advocate hacking of web sites or the computers of "said target".

Hacking and shutting down websites and computers is not the way to earn sympathy for your cause.

Are you sure it was really "Anonymous" who targeted your friend and not just some idiot using their name ?

[Chad]

I actually did a thesis paper on them for my English class.

I got an A on it, and great remarks on research.

I actually became an "anonymous" for a month and read, posted, and interacted with them.

I began to grow an addiction, and started noticing patterns in my life that reflected them. I had a short temper, I started using some of their terms in daily chat, and began thinking of new memes.

That's when I know I had to stop, it was like a drug.

Now I too have a healthy fear of them, not for them "targetting" me or anything, but rather to be on the safe side.

I randomly continue to check the site occasionally, but never post anymore or get to in-depth.


As an end note, I never took anything public such as the harassing calls to GameStop, or rioted on the church of scientology. That was all after I was done with them.

[CCIP]

You DO realize that the above post should be in video format, on Youtube, showing a video of the sky with a computer voice saying that. :D
Well, I pointed my webcam the wrong way :dead:


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y122/Otohiko/stuff/otolol01.jpg

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[Frau_Phillips]

A /b/tard! Out of his natural habitat! Fascinating!

I don't really know. I don't know the guy that well, he was just one of those friends you met once and then friended you because he wanted to rack up the number.

[CCIP]

psst


(To be serious, I should say that I'm not anonymous - I'm just an anonymous sympathiser on [anti-]philosophical grounds. I have many anonymous friends and generally enjoy watching the /b/tardedness and /i/nvasions from the sidelines, but I'm an active participant in neither. I'm still usually saner than that. I was pretty close to participating in a couple of anonymous raids, but I generally thought it better to keep things simple and quiet.)

:p

[Frau_Phillips]

I tend to not like them so much. I don't blame them for everything like Fox did, that's silly.

But:

1 All of these guys who shoot up colleges tend to post messages about it on /b/. Pattern maybe?
2 The one time I went there, there was a thread of pics with dead and tortured kitties ;_;
3 They're always like, "DO IT, ********T" to people who post about suicide, and some people have done it.

They just leave a bad taste in my mouth.

[CCIP]

1 All of these guys who shoot up colleges tend to post messages about it on /b/. Pattern maybe?
2 The one time I went there, there was a thread of pics with dead and tortured kitties ;_;
3 They're always like, "DO IT, ********T" to people who post about suicide, and some people have done it
1. and 3. Fake. I don't think there's any proof of this. There are no real an heroes on /b/, posts on the subject are a meme in themselves and as far as we know, have no precedent on being true.
If they were, theoretically, real instances - you'd think a person would get more sympathy and psychological support from a cage of hungry polar bears than they would from /b/. Yes, they need help, but /b/ approaches everything as the fake trash that /b/ itself is, and someone who comes to /b/ with anything else is not going to get any help. /b/ is not even a community.

2. There's no rules on /b/ (except Rule 34). As far as we know, the pictures come from elsewhere anyway and I am not aware of /b/ ever being implicated in animal torture. It's just rude exposure.

/b/ is rude, chaotic, unrestrained exposure to whatever the last things that one may be sensitive to. Anyone on /b/ with the intention, expectation or fear of exposure to anything whatsoever is in the very, very wrong place. If you're on /b/ by your own will, you've already forefeited any morals, expectations or sensitivities. It's better to just turn away from /b/ and not look. That's what I generally do.

[Frau_Phillips]

I know that, that's why I don't go there anymore. I know they post things like that, therefore I don't go so I'm not subjected to it. I don't think people have a right to act so outraged and demand action about it, but I do have a right to be disgusted that they do it and think less of them for it.

[CCIP]

Sure. I personally find it funny when people are proudly and outwardly anonymous. Part of the reason why I'm not - honestly, when you "live" in THAT, how can you ever take yourself seriously or have any sense of dignity left? :D
But that's not what that is all about for most of them, either way.

[Blacklight]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y122/Otohiko/stuff/otolol01.jpg
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
This would be the WORST Anonymous video EVER !!!!! ROFL !!!! Seriously !! Take the audio from the Anonymous videos and stare at this picture while you're listening to it. The combination is hilarous ! :rotfl:

[bookworm_020]

Best send up post I've seen in ages!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Well Done!:rock:

[baggygreen]

never even heard of em, and i been round teh interwebz for years...

whats the g-o?

[kiwi_2005]

Well these guys have declared war on the Church of Scientology so i aint got a problem with them.

[Sailor Steve]

This is also the first time I've ever heard of this. Interesting.

[CCIP]

Perhaps then, for those of you who've never heard before, that will help explain my random "exploding van" pictures I've been known to post in threads sometimes :lol:

[Sailor Steve]

Nope; never heard of that one, either.

[Yahoshua]

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k84/yahoshua/DGAD.gif

[Wolfehunter]

I've herd of groups attacking large interest groups but regular joes.:hmm: They call that fun?:shifty: Strange lot:-?

[Kapitan_Phillips]

And we all know who to thank if they come to us next after a google search ;)

BATTLESTATIONS! :stare:

[Tchocky]

Anonymous. He delivered.

[Blacklight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwCWWZyeInw
:rotfl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saWk_IwdKgk
:rotfl:

[CCIP]

And we all know who to thank if they come to us next after a google search ;)

BATTLESTATIONS! :stare:
Anon? Going after Subsim? Sheer nonsense!

We're not Habbo Hotel. We're mostly made up of grown-up, tech-savvy guys who can take a joke or deal with a troll or two. We've had a couple of /b/tards pass by in the last few monts, but you could tell they got bored quickly. There's not many cranks among us either who'd get wound up and/or gang up against a certain offensive viewpoint either. At the same time, the biography thread reveals that quite a number of us are intimidating-looking dudes, some touting guns or wearing military gear. I don't think they'd be getting too comfy taking on, without any reason, our sort of no-nonsense crowd :arrgh!:

Not to mention that, well, I should hope the average Anon has at least some respect for actual, functional, goal-oriented and open communities on the interwebs. We're not a myspace either :roll:

[GlobalExplorer]

I admit I am completely clueless but what is /b/ :hmm:

But thanks, interesting thread.

[stabiz]

What the?

[Wolfehunter]

I did some research and from what I found is there are factions with in it. I don't know all the details but if they attack someone or an organization its because they have a reasons. Mostly Scientology is there big target.

Here is a clip for you guys to judge for yourself.

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=BcAYOVW7GQA

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=BnRJXVQC0_0&feature=related

Like I said I don't know all the details yet. I don't judge till I have all the evidence from both sides.:yep:

[CCIP]

Anonymous, contrary to popular belief, is not an organization. It's the antithesis to one. :D
So we can't speak of "factions" within it! If it's close to anything organization-wise, then it's probably a lynch-mob.


/b/ is the reason I'll never be an anarchist. It IS anarchy, internet-ized, and look where it got them :doh:

[Wolfehunter]

Anonymous, contrary to popular belief, is not an organization. It's the antithesis to one. :D
So we can't speak of "factions" within it! If it's close to anything organization-wise, then it's probably a lynch-mob.


/b/ is the reason I'll never be an anarchist. It IS anarchy, internet-ized, and look where it got them :doh:Yes there unified to fight scientology but some older videos said they had disputes in the past but became united in the fight because of Scientlogy's actions.

It has sparked my interest thats for sure.:hmm: Well March 15 is the big next event. I don't know what to think yet.:nope: On with the research.;)

[Sailor Steve]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwCWWZyeInw
:rotfl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saWk_IwdKgk
:rotfl:
Blacklight, those are great...but how did you manage to miss this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzSkDATW9_Q&feature=related
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[CCIP]

The Scientology raid was organized very arbitrarily. There's a common cause, but raid mentality is a mentality, not an organization. There is definitely some organization going on with local anons (known colloquially as "fags"), and some sharing between them, but it's all really impormptu. On the other hand they have a lot of fun doing it. I've started following the Scientology raids after a couple of my Orlandofag friends showed me pics and videos of what they did for their lulz :D

[Blacklight]

Interesting.. from Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29

Anonymous Assists Arrest of Chris Forcand

Anonymous Assists Arrest of Chris Forcand
On December 7, 2007, the Canada-based Toronto Sun newspaper published a report on the arrest of the alleged Internet predator Chris Forcand. Forcand, 53, was charged with two counts of luring a child under the age of 14, attempt to invite sexual touching, attempt exposure, possessing a dangerous weapon, and carrying a concealed weapon. The report stated that Forcand was already being tracked by "cyber-vigilantes who seek to out anyone who presents with a sexual interest in children" before police investigations commenced. A Global News report identified the group responsible for Forcand's arrest as a "self-described Internet vigilant group called Anonymous" who contacted the police after some members were "propositioned" by Forcand with "disgusting photos of himself". The report also stated that this is the first time a suspected Internet predator was arrested by the police as a result of Internet vigilantism.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29#_note-Kim)

[Wolfehunter]

The Scientology raid was organized very arbitrarily. There's a common cause, but raid mentality is a mentality, not an organization. There is definitely some organization going on with local anons (known colloquially as "fags"), and some sharing between them, but it's all really impormptu. On the other hand they have a lot of fun doing it. I've started following the Scientology raids after a couple of my Orlandofag friends showed me pics and videos of what they did for their lulz :DThis post is the first I've herd of them. I don't watch TV its all censored garbage but Internet well thats different. Far better soap shows right here on Subsim and your part of it too.:up:

[CCIP]

New one on Scientology...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zn_npY0TOI

:up:

[Tchocky]

Anybody participate/see anything today?

I spotted one of my housemates leaving this morning with a mask under his arm, no word yet on how the day went. I would have gone myself if not for this b*stard thesis..

[CCIP]

I would have gone myself if not for this b*stard thesis..

:rotfl:

You and me both!

[silentrunner]

Here Here!!!!:rock:

I support Religious freedom in all of it's forms, but Scientology has become more than a religion they are a criminal orginazation.

[Blacklight]

Here Here!!!!:rock:

I support Religious freedom in all of it's forms, but Scientology has become more than a religion they are a criminal orginazation.

I will have to agree.

[nikimcbee]

You DO realize that the above post should be in video format, on Youtube, showing a video of the sky with a computer voice saying that. :D
Well, I pointed my webcam the wrong way :dead:


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y122/Otohiko/stuff/otolol01.jpg

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not to change the subject....
So this is how Russian dentistry works:hmm:

[CCIP]

Oh I wish!!
(I just had to pay a nasty dental bill this week :dead:)

[Kapitan_Phillips]

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2636/p1030033rj5uy7.jpg


:yep::lol::lol:

[Oberon]

Haha, Anon, the internet hate machine :lol:

I think some of their stuff is hilarious, in particular the memes which have sprung up around 4chan, and their raids on various places such as Habbo Hotel and Scientology are pretty epic.

On the other hand, they're not known as /b/tards for nothing, and sometimes they can be right idiots, but, at the end of the day, it is an indicator, so to speak, of modern times.

So in conclusion, Anon is a bit like Russian roulette, if you get an empty chamber it's all well and good but if you get a loaded one, then...damn... :dead:

[Stealth Hunter]

TO
BATTLESTATIONS!