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You don't understand. The actual group of Anonymous are going harm and activists are looking up at this group of people and they are attributing themselves when they want to do something like DoDS some company web service. Anonymous are justifying their hacking and cracking by saying their targets have done the unjust. Why are they doing the unjust; as if Anonymous has the power to rule what is right and wrong, and acting as if they are an underground judge.

I honestly don't appreciate Anonymous. If you want to be an activist, show your face and your identity. The world doesn't need an incubator of batman.



No, I think it is you that does not understand:

> "The actual group of Anonymous [...]"

There is no such thing. Not in any traditional sense. Talking about "Anonymous, the group" is like talking about "Kilroy, the GI."


> Talking about "Anonymous, the group" is like talking about "Kilroy, the GI."

I wonder how many people here are even going to get that reference...


Apparently "Kilroy" is specifically an American thing, but I don't think it is too obscure. For the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here

I thought it was a good comparison because of the "graffiti/website defacement" angle.


If not "Kilroy" then how about "Emmanuel Goldstein?"


Yeah, I don't look at Anonymous nearly the same way you do. I think of Anonymous as an idea or a principle rather than an actual group. I see no reason why anonymity cannot have a place in activism.


There are many groups (or a single very large fluid group) that call themselves Anonymous. That's more or less the point of the name.




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