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.



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
Dammit, I just lost all my forum credibility here I think

[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.

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 ?

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by 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.

Well, I pointed my webcam the wrong way




DELETE DELETE DELETE

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Well, I pointed my webcam the wrong way




DELETE DELETE DELETE

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 )

[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]

Originally Posted by Frau_Phillips

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.

[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.