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The Evolution of Anonymous
- alexqgb 16y ago"Multinational corporations and governments may seem fair game, but what about private citizens?" The irony here is that the "private citizen" in question ran a company which specialized in facilitating illegal collusion between multinational corporations and governments to attack - yes - private citizens. And unlike Arron "sweaty ballsack of caterpillars" Barr, the people his firm set out to smear (e.g. Glen Greenwald) were targeted for having made effective use of Constitutionally protected liberty. Barr, on the other hand, was singularly focused on undermining that liberty for commercial gain. So yes, fair game in spades. Assuming, of course, that you think this is just a game. Happily, the Atlantic concludes that - so far - their effect has been "nothing more than regulatory." Yay for sanity.
- iloveponies 16y agoFor me at least, it remains interesting that what started all this was essentially a bored Japanese exchange student's doing 12 years ago.
- frisco 16y agoAre you referring to moot? Because moot definitely is not Japanese.
- TheAmazingIdiot 16y agoNope, they're talking about Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2chan.
- w1ntermute 16y agoAnd 4chan was created as an American version of 2chan.
- iloveponies 16y agoThat's where you not correct. 4chan really was created because moot wanted a cool email address (moot@4chan.net), and it's based from Futaba Channel, not 2channel.
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- Jun8 16y agoSaying that until recently (meaning pre-wikileaks perhaps) Anonymous's main concerns was lulz culture and other paraphrenelia is not correct journalism, e.g. remember their efforts against Scientology. Also, as was pointed on HN recently, to think of them as a well-defined group that can splinter is misunderstanding the emergent nature of the group's dynamics