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What is it with old people and their complete inability to understand Anonymous? If you did that, you wouldn't be acting like "them", you would be part of Anony
by n09n 12y ago
What is it with old people and their complete inability to understand Anonymous? If you did that, you wouldn't be acting like "them", you would be part of Anonymous.
- BHSPitMonkey 12y agoThat's the entire point. Anyone attributing an action to "them" inherently wrong in doing so. "Because Anonymous has no leadership, no action can be attributed to the membership as a whole. Parmy Olson and others have criticized media coverage that presents the group as well-organized or homogeneous." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29)
- n09n 12y agoThat quote and the wikipedia article it comes from are both misguided because they still describe Anonymous as a group.
- darkstar999 12y agoThat's partially my point. However, when you do something under the name "Anonymous" like the twitter account did, you are doing it as Anonymous, the "loosely defined group". Otherwise why would you call yourself Anonymous? I am Anonymous right now. I am legion.
- n09n 12y agoIt's a loosely defined group only in the sense that some people incorrectly define it as a group.
- duaneb 12y agoOk, lemme define the group: Anonymous: the group of people who identify themselves as part of the group "Anonymous".
- n09n 12y agoAh yes, the good old set A, which contains all elements who are members of set A.
- darkstar999 12y agoYes, that is my point.
- rtpg 12y agothe thing I don't get is it's literally in their name, that this is not a group but just some random people on the internet. The idea that it's one group just comes from how 4chan talks about anonymous people with slight lingo, making it sound like a group from an outsider.
- n09n 12y agoIt's not "in their name". There is no "them" and there is no name.
- SEJeff 12y agoIf you want to be specific about what most of the internet refers to as 'Anonymous', it is /b/ on 4chan. /b/ and their very odd lingo is relatively well organized, but anonymous amongst eachother. Collectively, they are what the majority of people refer to as the 'hacker collective anonymous'. They also refer to themselves as btards look it up on urbandictionary or (NSFW) encyclopedia dramatica to learn more.
- darkstar999 12y ago> old people Really? Age has anything to do with this? "What's with black people and their complete inability..."
- n09n 12y agoNo, not really. I said it for the same reason racists might use your example. To demean that group and to prime people who don't identify with that group to look down on the behavior.