Anonymous
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
Fuck, I wish we heard more about chaotic good hackers like this more often. They’re like our modern day super heroes in some regard to me.
I think they caught most of them from back when they were more active (2009-2012) or at least were more in the public eye.
The ones that didn’t get caught went underground and stopped working together as ‘anonymous’
Lulzsec comes to mind
Finally, someone is stepping up!
Nice. I love anonymous.
Not Anon,a specific group that named themselves.
I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I’ll allow it.
nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
Oh, you think you’re clever, do you?
THAT’S IT. BRING OUT… THE COMFY CHAIR!
There is no way this is the same guys who went after Scientology, however, I do love whoever they are. We need more people fighting fascism.
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Yeah… I’d be real careful getting started by joining a particular irc server known for anything.
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I was part of anon in the mid-2000s hahaha. It was a blast. I met a lot of really cool people!
I lurked, it was super interesting, definitely a lot of cool people. Quite a few pretty intense people too.
I’m shocked it wasn’t Ukraine I tell you positively shocked now let’s watch everyone who reported as such reverse it…
It was about as obvious of a lie as when people tried to say that Russia blew up their own pipeline.
Wow, I haven’t heard anything from those guys in a hot minute.
Bunch of anons: DDoS Xitter
Elona: Ukraine did it!
Wait before this dimwit will start screaming of casus belli against an unfriendly Ukraine and the USA will start selling Russia weapons.
They’re doing what we should all be doing. Particularly those obsessed with the 2nd amendment, since this is literally what it was made for.
Dirty little secret they don’t want to admit is 2A was for the military. Not meal team six.
Good on them, I guess. But Twitter is only a small part of the problem.
This is the energy Anonymous is supposed to have. I still fondly recall the work they did on Scientology.
Mr Robot was great
One of the big - but to be expected - problems had always been, that basically every group or individual could don the “Anonymous” label. But yeah, this is in the spirit of the anti-authoritarian hacker identity, that it started out with.
Obligatory “fuck Graham Linehan”.
Absolutely. It’s actually kind of ironic considering the episode ”the Internet is coming" actually had one of the better portrayals of a trans person in popular media for some time. Better if they actually cast a trans person for the role. But still.
I would never watch anything new with him attached. Though I don’t think that’s a worry now. But I’ll watch the old stuff for the great cast. Moran and Bailey were fantastic in black books. Probably didn’t hurt that Moran had a large hand in writing too. Parkinson, Ayoade, O’dowd, Fielding, and Berry are what made the IT crowd not Linehan. The proof is in the pilot for the version they wanted to foist on us yanks. Even with Ayodae returning, he couldn’t make it funny by himself. And that’s saying something.
Granted that any time humans wield anonymous power without oversight there will be bad behaviour. When I was younger I took for granted that a key part of the social construct of Anonymous was an ironic awareness of that, hence its suitability for striking back at high-handed enemies of humanity.
I was quite young back then.
Yeah that’s kind of the point for Anonymous. It could be anyone and no one. It’s jokers telling people to put their phones in the microwave, it’s idiots putting slurs on random pages of home users, it’s concerted groups seeking to take a stance against authoritarian figures and groups. You can’t catch them because it’s not really a group of a few people, it’s an idea and a moniker that anyone can adopt. Very “I am Spartacus”.
Antifa is the same. Fascists talk about antifa like they’re going to go to their headquarters and arrest their president. Fucking morons. If you are anti fascist you are antifa. It’s that simple.
the energy Anonymous is supposed to have
Obligatory “Anonymous is not your personal army,” but yeah, this is Anonymous at its best.
The energy that Anonymous as a social construct is supposed to have. I’m not here to give notes to any would-be vigilantes.
Absolutely, and if any vigilante or would-be vigilante is taking notes or get inspired by this, definitely don’t continue or start to attack people that are robbing humanity. Definitely do leave the psychotic most rich megacorporations and their product and most of all their lawyers. Don’t use devices that are outside of tracking to connect to your local group because that would be stooping to their level and joining a class war that is very justified but also extremely needed but is maybe hailed and glorious but like immoral to do if you empathise with the oligarchs. They certainly are human too. Everyone knows they have humanity inside them and definitely should be considered as humans therefore not morally obliged to be dismantled like we do with other machines of death that invade our spaces
My point was more that the notion that Anonymous is “supposed to have” any particular energy is kinda misunderstanding its nature. It’s nice when it does good things, but when that happens it’s only because people who did good things decided to label themselves as Anonymous, not because because there’s some entity with good intent deciding what Anonymous should do.
This is the first time i see anyone take actual action
Finally and can’t wait to see much much more
