No this is Community Discussion.

Yup, it's always interesting seeing these people who think criminal = tattoo'd junkie when it can mean a 12 to 14 year old. Watching those people go "NO WAY" is absolutely priceless being a nice little fire for those cold days.

I don't think you can say stealing and giving the money to charity is 'morally gray'. There's no maybe there, theft is theft no matter what you do with the money.

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Depends on who you ask. I find it morally gray, like a Robbin Hood kinda deal.

Theft is illegal, but depending your subscribed theory of philosophical ethics and the circumstances, it is not necessarily immoral, so there is definitely a "maybe"

Considering it can very well get the charity in legal hot water if they accept the money, it's still pretty bad.

Yes as someone who visits the video game section of 4 chan almost daily I can tell you from most of the things I have seen they DESPISE THE WEEARE ANONYMOUSE HACKER thing. The thing is someone is trying to label everyone that goes on 4 chan as hackers. It is ludicrous they just take the embarrassing people from /b/ and try to say that everyone on that site is like that. The anonymous "hacker" group is most likely a small handful of people who go on to the website. I can go on and on about how this is most likely going to be [censored].

Anonymous is the voice of the people and the voice of being finally, truly, free. It needs no agenda as the people have no one true agenda. They want jobs, they want free health care, they want equality. Yeah, as Anonymous is indiscriminate of accepting members, it's obvious that many trolls have "joined" Anonymous and used its overarching power to more or less, troll.

They're doing this as a prelude to change. Anonymous would've never existed if the ones running the show in America weren't corrupt flith. Why would they censor the Occupy Movement? Why pepper spray college students that are KNEELING DOWN, IN SUBMISSION?

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable"
- John F. Kennedy

I think worse is the fact that whoever is doing it obviously liked the movie Sneakers.

Sure the social engineering in it was grade-A, but you can't overlook the horrible "enhance"

For those who never have seen the movie, the beginning sequence is about this, and the ending sequence:

"In a postscript, we find out that the team has used the processor to steal money from the Republican National Committee, driving it to bankruptcy, and used the stolen money to make massive anonymous donations to various charities including Greenpeace and the United Negro College Fund."

Yes like protesting Sony on removal of OS is what the people of america want. No no no in my opinion the only thing I have seen a group which labeled themselves as anonymous had done was what was done with Chanology few years back. Then again that group of anonymous has changed quite a lot since then.

Actually they barely mention it, only at the start when they explained where they started. They didn't even paint them in a bad light which was surprising. They put a lot of focus on them bringing light to things like police brutality and organizing protests and stuff.

You DO know that Sony alone claimed that Anonymous did it without providing any evidence to back up their claims, and the anonymous IRC channel denied taking place in it in any way and their logs don't suggest they were a part of it in any way either. Sony used Anonymous as a scapegoat

Wait you are kidding me? Well that is good to know. Anything about Aliens? I mean internet memes?

Didn't lulzsec take credit for that? Maybe I remember wrong.



Nope although it was likely intentional because they'd rather not have their viewers go there and be err.. surprised at what they might find. ...or it was because of aliens

I mean the "anonymous" sit downs in stores that sold sony products or was it verizon. It was about half a year ago I think. I just hated how people just plaster anonymous on their face without knowing where it came from and where the blame may shift to.

They took credit for the second time I believe.

What's Anonymous?

a political activist group and a famous poet whose works are included in numerous poetry books

Opps never mind that.

Crap this new layout it is getting annoying.

Laughing my head off of at the random scenes of a unix terminal and wireshark.

I wrote it all, promise.

NO THIS IS PATRICK! Ha ha but really i lean more towards ambivalence in this case

To me I can't really see how you can say that and then do a 180 and say that people are stereotyping them. Trying to label anything in the group, if you can even call it that, is like trying to describe the shape of an amorphous blob. There is no boundary that says "you are or aren't a member", even, anyone can just claim "I am a member", nor is there any real level of cooperation among the people. Ultimately it boils down to a whole bunch of individuals doing individual actions, and in a few rare cases a small team of individuals doing an action; there is little unity besides the name.

And again, I don't know if you can really call them a political activist group, either, simply because of the wide variety of things that have been attributed to the group. If you point to a whole bunch of charity work and say "X did it, and I'm a member of X so I would know", does it mean X is a group which focuses upon charity? If yes, I then point to a bunch of low-key thefts, and say the same for them. Is X still a group which focuses on charity?

I don't think Anonymous is as righteous as people think. For sample, regardless of what you think of her, Jessi Slaughter's treatment by Anonymous doesn't exactly scream "righteous freedom fighters" to me: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/jessi-slaughter