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I'm not sure I have too much to say here. The article comes off as incredibly smug, and through its use of an eight-pointed star, downright heretical ;-). The
by eli_gottlieb 9y ago
I'm not sure I have too much to say here. The article comes off as incredibly smug, and through its use of an eight-pointed star, downright heretical ;-).
The author needs to be made aware that the anarchistic, chaotically liberatory vision of Anonymous morphed, over the past few years, into /r/The_Donald. The networked people are not the ones fighting authoritarianism; they're the ones supporting it.
- watwut 9y agoIs that a guess or there is actually evidence that the groups are composed of the same people?
- psyc 9y agoAnon grew out of 4chan 10 years ago. The_Donald is (loosely, I think) associated with /pol. The assertion that Anonymous turned into TD is absolutely absurd. Critical thinking depends on making distinctions, not squinting and lumping as much as you can into a bucket.
- eli_gottlieb 9y agoThe point is not that Anon and /pol/ are the same group. The point is that there's nothing structural about anonymous online fora that necessarily gives rise to a politics centered around personal rights and freedoms. It can just as easily go to mob authoritarianism as to individualism.
- 317070 9y agoThat sounds a lot like a guilty by association. If some people in a group of people hang out with some people who are bad, all of them are bad. In this case, you claim the author associates with groups which in turn are associated with /r/The_Donald, which I presume you think of as bad. All the while, you are indeed not saying much on the contents of the linked article.