177: Hit Them Where They Live

[Noble Korhedron]

Well as for the rest of you, I agree with PlasticPorter. @PlasticPorter:
"Yeah your right scientology does nothing to worry about at all...
except maybe kidnap people from their families, bribe and blackmail the government so they don't have to obey the law, threaten sue and actually physicly harm anyone who openly criticizes them on any level whatsoever, yeah maybe we should have left Charles Manson alone instead of arresting him. Instead we can go protest some horrible stuff... christianity...has..done...in the last...century? The reason people protested is because the CoS thinks they can get away with whatever they want and hurt anybody they want and that the law doesn't apply to them, thats why it matters
I'm curious what has christianity done in the last century thats even worth calling the cops about much less protesting? (it has to be the entire religion of christianity not just one creepy priest)"

Everything here is why every open-minded, free-thin king person in teh world should oppose this bunch of Neo-Facist, neo-Con mother*******! Freedom of Speech is the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and all the Scifags and sychophants out there shoudl take note!

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

While this is a fantastic, and well-written article, it's kinda missed the mark of /b/ just a bit.

The largest problem with /b/, especially as of late, is that it's a members' only club that lost its "Members Only" status.It varied with the influx. The rule of thumb on /b/, at least the /b/ of old, was to lurk until you understood what the hell was going on, then you could jump on and become another anonymous, posting pic semi related [http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a395/NewClassic/Silly/800px-End_dump_2005-11-28km.jpg] or taking comfort in the smaller things [http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a395/NewClassic/Silly/1158868423468.jpg]. The old /b/ was small enough to "moderate" the new guys who would come in, learn the ropes, and then become the mass. The new /b/ got too large, too fast, and no one really learned the etiquette of old. The old guys, flapping their beards while shaking their canes, grew tired and left. The new /b/ is a sort of Gaia-Lite. A cool, refreshing beverage that shows occasional signs of the old /b/, but none of the energy involved. It became the internet trash can.

As far as Anonymous and Scientology goes, it was the old /b/ that DDoSed Scientology, made Tom Cruise's video public, and generally powered the internet "hate" machine under the guise of free-speech. Much like the /b/ of yore, this was taken over by people who had a genuine interest in taking down Scientology, and leaving the internet hate machine to do it's hating. Once the lulz were gone, /b/ packed up and left. The anonymous that remained were re-dubbed "moralfags" and were left to do their protesting (no longer trolling) in a civil and only partially /b/ manner. The method was simple, establish an identity, and run with it. And the "Moralfags" proceeded to gain ground, and continue to be an existing entity on the Meat World scene.

Rules 1 and 2 state you do not talk about /b/, for raiding purposes. You are Anonymous, you are legion, and you are a direct force of "eBaumsWorld," the all-mighty scapegoat of /b/. The Scientology donned the mask, lied of cake, and rick-roll'd a cult, all a direct force of Anonymous. Although the title lives on, /b/ and Scientology are not at all related anymore. It's all another mask.

But that's a lot of history which really makes no difference. Just, rather a note on the lack of /b/ as it was, versus the now-"tame" /b/ and now-activist "anonymous." The old /b/, I'd imagine, has moved to one of the other *chans. Although, it's pretty safe to say, the "Internet Hate Machine" that was /b/ is no more, and now is only a weak facsimile of the script-kiddies-on-steroids.

 

[AjaxTorbin]

And this group Anonymous somehow presents a healthier, more constructive approach to humanity and the world we all live in?

as a sometime 'philosi-fag' myself in a way , yes. yes we are. yes there are some of the most horrendous thing you will ever see in the site, from attempts at child porn to gore pics showing every vulgar detail. but is it a 'good' thing? yes it is. at least for the U.S.
The united states has become locked in a stagnant era of 'moral' ways and attempts to restrain freedoms. we are stuck in what seems 'rude' and 'vulgar', when these that things have changed several times over in other cultures, words like 'shit' and 'fuck' are still taboo in our mainstream culture.
But its more that that, ideas have become taboo, one group is so afraid of offending anther that we constrain ourselves in the name of polite culture. To deny, cover, or restrict a thing is to give that thing power over your actions. I will not be controlled by polite culture or the need to be ?delicate? or ?sensitive?, i can not restrict my growth as a human by the fear of hurting others, emotionally or physically. I will not, CAN not if I wish to maintain my sanity, surround myself with people who are controlled by these things, because no one can make a life out of hiding from any type of pain and still be a member of a productive culture.
But i am a minority. And that saddens me. Until i log on to 4Chan.
In order to grow we need to expand boundaries, to do that we must push those boundaries, and the chans do that, 4chan, 7chan, 12chan(rip), 2chan(rip) and the other multitude of chans do is hang onto the edge of exceptable behavior, and at times even take flying leaps off. yes its offensive, base and uncouth, impolitic and deplorable, but it is freedom, and freedom is messy. freedom does not mean 'free from want' or bother, our constitution does not protect people form being offended, it protects the offenders. freedom is dangerous, it can get you killed, or even offended, but that is a small price to pay for it. at least that's what a bunch of British-fags thought a couple hundred years ago.
But to these who think this unbridled freedom is dangerous, i point out the following;
at times people have attempted to post REAL child porn, they were lambasted by anonymous and got banned.
Memes, while often strange sometimes catch on, those cute cat pics that were all around the interwebs a while back? people still send them to each other on places like facebook. well, it started out as 'caturday' on 4chan and 2chan.
Then there was project chanolgy, a group was attempting to restrict the flow of free speech, and anonymous rose to meet the threat.
There are other examples, we aided a hunt for child molesters at one point, there was a man looking for his son, who had run away.
IN the end i walk away with a simple message; EVERY action has reaction or effect, if you put your hand in a fire, you will either learn from that and not do it again, or you will die as you do it repeatedly, as is the natural order of things. There is no forced action. None. We have the right in this, or are supposed to, to make our own choices, and with that freedom comes responsibility for ones own actions. To take away the responsibility:IE consequences, for those actions is to take away the freedom to choose them in the first place.

 

[Tyrian Lawson]

Ooh goodie, this is one of those forum things. We shall have such FUN together!

Chanology fag here.

We get to troll scifags because they can't accept any criticism.
We get to troll moralfags because they can't take jokes.
We get to troll "oldfag" channers because they take the idea of "anonymous elite haxxors" way too seriously.
We get to troll fellow lulzfags by simply being retarded and pretending we care.
Chanology has been the greatest trolling campaign evar.

 

[Cyclomega]

Hail the wise beard man, his words are wise his face is beard.

This is probably the first and only time so far someone has ever been able to channel the raw power of Legion...

I still lurk /b/, but I'm taking a little break...

Hi Tyrian and Ajax.

NewClassic> At least shitty threads are not stored indefinitely on /b/, sure they are reposted, but it's not such an eye-rape as Gaia's layout...
Yet it's been invaded with moralfags, promoters of serious business (taking offense and declaring an overload of squick over a rather bland copypasta)...
I hope it's going to cool down like the Newfag Summer of '07, God that was a bad period...

 

[rawrz]

Here's what I hear from you guys who are complaining about what /b/ and failchan used to be like:

"BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! *complain about other people who are not taking the internet/anonymous as serious as us* BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Christ, the chans started to suck after the faux news story about anonymous, not after chanology, retards. The only reason why they still suck now is because the majority of you are too busy complaining about other anonymous having their fun. Too busy gripping, then you don't go out and make your own fun. Anonymous doesn't care what other anonymous do.

The one thing Chanology has brought me, is an untold amount of lulz by trolling other "channers" or "anonymous". One mention of the word can get their panties in a bunch and start baaaawing all over the forums or boards. You all just lost the game.

 

[Dommyboy]

I have never seen The Escapist mentioned on /b/, just rule 34 of Yahtzee on /b/. Unfortunately news spreads quickly and we can expect they The Escapist gets trolled a lot soon by many Anonymous Sources. Great article though, it brought many lulz to me.

 

[Spacelord]

Someone actually took the time to write an article on /b/...

Yeah, this is terrible. This will probably just egg them on. I'll be expecting another raid soon.

 

[Dave Rapp]

The scifag raids crippled Anonymous by drawing in more outsiders than we could really handle. The going is slow, but the newfags are slowly (verrrrrry slowly) being weeded out of /b/. Give us time to recover as we fix our fucked up internal issues. And please no more articles about us.

Also, while I am here, I would like to add that I'm never gonna give you up and than you just lost the game.

 

[John Stalvern]

I'm always amazed that despite all of its phenomenal stupidity 4chan manages to retain proper spelling and punctuation for the most part.

 

[ampa451]

nice. but it seems more about /b/'s yesterdays news. maybe you should have spoken on how 4chan hasnt been taken down concidering the crazy shit they've gone through over the years.

 

[Mstrswrd]

Didn't your dorm-mate get arrested for hacking rather than for being a part of anonymous... 'cause really, only Fox news think anonymous are hackers on steroids.
Oh and Oprah thinking anonymous is a highly organized group dedicated to spreading child pornography... "they have over 9000 penises and they're all raping children!"... haha.

Well, yeah, but the FBI agents (Fucking FBI agents!) said something about how he was "Part of the internet hacker group annonymous." So, I figured I'd put both aspects.

 

[teknoarcanist]

From a sociological standpoint, doesn't /b/ sort of represent the perfect example of an entirely anarchistic 'organization'? By that I mean, a group entrenched in anarchy in every way (a continuous and spontaneous state of flux, with relation to their prescribed methodology, ideals, and ways of relating with even one another, let alone the outside world), as opposed to 60's activist groups that called themselves anarchist for blowing up consumer outlets and throwing blood on fur coats and stuff.

 

[OuroborosChoked]

Over 9000 attempted raids on this site soon? /b/ does take offence sometimes.

Seriously... Just ignore them and they will go away. No bid deal.

What? 9000?!?

There's no way that can be right!

 

[Cyclomega]

I'm always amazed that despite all of its phenomenal stupidity 4chan manages to retain proper spelling and punctuation for the most part.

You mistake mockery for real stupidity, and memes for the spelling norm...

 

[Kronopticon]

i have a confession, i AM a raidfag, for scientology, i AM one of anonymous, and nowadays, we dont raid so much for the down-bringing of scientology, but since raiding so many times, we have made friends, and we talk the same as on the chans, but in real life, we do it, for all the almighty lulz now, and nothing else, we enjoy each others company, and we get drunk afterwards.

we have our fun, and we dont care what others think, although some of us have been V& once or twice for doing silly things. i dont go on /b/ so much any more, i just go to the raids, and enjoy myself, meet up with some like-minded, civilised people, and maybe change some people's ideas.

regardless, we aren't on /b/ to express secret desires, we do it. for the lulz

*insert manly hero pose here*

seriously.

besides, if you dont like what we do, try doing it yourself before you curse us, you may find you like it.

 

[rawrz]

i have a confession, i AM a raidfag, for scientology, i AM one of anonymous, and nowadays, we dont raid so much for the down-bringing of scientology, but since raiding so many times, we have made friends, and we talk the same as on the chans, but in real life, we do it, for all the almighty lulz now, and nothing else, we enjoy each others company, and we get drunk afterwards.

we have our fun, and we dont care what others think, although some of us have been V& once or twice for doing silly things. i dont go on /b/ so much any more, i just go to the raids, and enjoy myself, meet up with some like-minded, civilised people, and maybe change some people's ideas.

regardless, we aren't on /b/ to express secret desires, we do it. for the lulz

*insert manly hero pose here*

seriously.

besides, if you dont like what we do, try doing it yourself before you curse us, you may find you like it.

You're a fag. See you on the 13th, /b/rotha.

 

[BobisOnlyBob]

I turned up to Hubbard's birthday, the first RL raid with cake (the second overall). The London raid went down pretty well, but seeing as I live elsewhere, the journey time was a bit much. I've been a *channer for longer than I'll ever admit, and a /b/tard for less time (although not on 4chan. There are other chans. Find them yourself.) What I do know is that /b/ has never been good - but it got worse after the raid publicity. I myself retreated to smaller chans, smaller groups, new content and better boards. 4chan is still important, it's just like a filter before the other sites to me. The continual torrent of newfags makes the place unusable.

I'll probably join again if it picks up steam, but otherwise my hands are tied by work and money. Until then, I'll just cheer from the background. Go go moralfags, you suck, but you suck less than the goddamn Scientologists and their bullshit. The sooner we collapse that "church" and its tax-evasion, the happier I'll be.

And yeah, /b/ is self-contained anarchy. As long as it exists, and exists subsidiary to a sustainable, growing world, the world as a whole is much better for it. Sure, occasionally it violently and unpredictably lashes out (see: DDoS of websites, usually introverted forums, Scientology, anything that offends a sizeable mass of its inhabitants) but otherwise its existence keeps normal people like me "normal", since I have somewhere to vent my anarchic side and equally create and destroy with no consequence. Sandbox anarchy, plenty of real people to play with, and unlike a real sandbox, no-one gets sand in their eyes when we chase them out for not playing our way. They possibly just want to throw up from the images, and if they're weak they get their feelings hurt. Such is the way of /b/.

 

[fuckyocouch]

This article is mad fail.

Anonymous only cares about perception in so far as it leads to achieving lulz. And Chanology is the biggest, most widespread trolling campaign ever. The impotent fury on our local scifag's face when 30 people show up and yell about her disgusting teeth every month in the guise of a world bettering protest is DELICIOUS.

 

[Ten98]

Q: How can you be Anon in public? A: You can't. So you are not Anon.

Wear a mask?