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And they deserve credit for building alliances with existing activist networks while they were organizing Operation BART protests. Without these, Anon's impact
by hack_edu 15y ago
And they deserve credit for building alliances with existing activist networks while they were organizing Operation BART protests. Without these, Anon's impact on OWS wouldn't have been much noticed. It's a wonder to watch a the movement suddenly manifest itself in real space, after half a decade of chaos and lulz.
- Sato 15y ago"V for Vendetta" is becoming real!? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)
- hack_edu 15y agoNot sure what you're trying to say here. Anonymous was active years before V came out, and they adopted the mask quite a while after the comic and movie popularized the image. Would you prefer they were big black guys in suits and afros? That was their symbol prior to V.
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- hack_edu 15y agoI said, "they adopted the mask quite a while _AFTER_ the comic and movie popularized the image." I did not say that they adopted it prior to the movie or comic; I said after. You must have read it wrong.
- Sato 15y agoNo, I got shocked. I happened to watch the movie only a week ago. With the masks, the Occupy movement would look like the movie. I hadn't noticed any clues of agitation. Now the movement looks like a terror, rather than a protest...