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"Anonymous draws its roots from an online forum dedicated to bringing sensitive government documents and other material to light." Making Moot sound like a leg
by stfu 15y ago
"Anonymous draws its roots from an online forum dedicated to bringing sensitive government documents and other material to light."
Making Moot sound like a legitimate candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
- wgx 15y agoHeh. Strangest description of 4chan yet.
- pyre 15y agoSounds like they are associating Anonymous as having been spawned by Wikileaks.org, which is a fallacy.
- moxiemk1 15y agoI think it's highly detrimental to peace to equate "bringing sensitive government documents and other material to light" with making the world a better place. I agree that it very often is, but if we make this equation, then yet another term, "peace" will have zero meaning, co-opted by those who will push their own agenda by making it sound like that of others.
- barry-cotter 15y agoSunlight is the best disinfectant[0] Your second paragraph is so lacking in cynicism I can barely parse it. Three[1] people have received the Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush, and you think "peace" can be an apolitical concept? [0]Belief that members or agents of the government are more corrupt than average not included. [1]Carter, Gore, Obama
- moxiemk1 15y agoThe Nobel Committee is indeed one of the people who is destroying the meaning of important words, in this case "Peace". As I said, I do agree that transparency is most often on the side of right, but I believe that making statements like the one I replied to is the reason why being among the cynics seems to me to be a lesser evil than being a part of the problem. Sometimes here on Hacker News people get lambasted for excessive pedantry, but I think in this case, being pedantic about what we allow to be said unchallenged is crucial to having any claim to being a place of nuanced ideas and thoughtful solutions.