Anonymous announces its plan to destroy facebook

[Comando96]

Remember, Remember the 5th of November. The Gun powder, Teason and Plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Well... they really love that film xD

Personally I think sadly this would be a too little too late attempt if it even achieved anything.
First off the information Facebook has, and therefore government agencies have is severely high already. Next they would only destroy the portal... not even the portal but one of many portals. It would be like breaking one mirror in a hall of mirrors and then after being dragged out, see it replaced the next day.

Better than nothing right? xD

 

[viranimus]

Why does it need to happen? I'm sure most people that go on facebook care nothing for anonymity and don't do it to be anonymous. They do it on their own will, so we should take that away from them in the name of internet freedom?

Incoming spoiler due to wall of text response. My apologies in advance.

Spoiler

You have answered a part of your own question. It needs to happen, because people do not seemingly care. People of this generation think, well it doesnt hurt me, so why should I care? These are the people who are allowing atrocities to continue. The ones who dont care because they feel they are not being effected, are the same ones who dont even realize that they ARE being effected or even how they are being effected. So those who dont care because they dont care if their information is being freely handed not only hurt themselves, and by perpetuating this complacency they hurt everyone in the process.

Compare the situation if you will to smokers. Smokers want to have the right to do with their body what they will, and yet there have been many laws restricting smoking because peoples willful ignorance not only hurts them, it hurts those in proximity to them.

Monitoring the populous, having more hands on your personal information than a back alley hooker, are all bad things. However the worst thing is that the herd perpetuates this. They do so because they dont care if their info is tossed around, so long as they can let people who really dont give a shit about them know they "Just had a totally bitchin` weekend!" And its that mentality in the populous that this action is directed to, infinitely more than being directed at Facebook as corrupt medium.

People have become so complacent that they willingly volunteer real life information into facebook without ever considering the consequence of how that information could be used and for no other reason than a web form told them to. So long as they are fulfilling their need for belonging, they are willing to ignore threats to their freedoms and safety.

This is why people needs to happen. Yes, we should take that freedom away from people when they have already illustrated that this infringes on privacy, security and true freedom of speech for all people.

What this action does is the necessary step of jolting the addicts away from their addiction to fabricated self value and artificial sense of belonging. Without that break on a wide scale the only change you will see in the situation will go from bad to infinitely worse.

 

[thevillageidiot13]

I think this is the first time I've ever wanted Anonymous to succeed.

I think this is the first time I've ever wanted them to fail. Haha!

 

[DarthFennec]

No don't do that Anonymous! If you kill FaceBook everyone will have to switch to Google+ and then GOOGLE WILL OWN EVERYONE!!!

... yeah I actually don't care all that much. The only social websites I use are this one and FlankBook, and that's all I really need.

 

[Drakmeire]

Anonymous is weak, taking down a website means nothing unless you can fundamentally change the website itself. Anyone can take down a website if they have the proper software and a few weeks of training but real hacking is actually changing the site.
explained futility here.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cia.png
and it's even funnier that they will most likely fail miserably.
EDIT: Oh wait, they actually mean "destroy" as in erase from existence forever?
Bender can answer this for me.
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[xXHaytonLloyd23Xx]

Come on Anon! Use you're powers for good and take out ED or Topix!

ED doesn't exist anymore, the asshole who ran it turned it into a SFW website so he (or she?) could sell it off.

actually, ED is back. http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Main_Page

 

[Tiger Sora]

I think this is the first time I've ever wanted Anonymous to succeed.

Not my first time and not the last. I don't care for Facebook at all.

 

[novixz]

I support Anon, I see them as fair and just. Quite frankly I don't care what you say.

 

[IkeGreil29]

Well, time time to finally delete that account... don't want my shit to get stolen or accessed by those guys... just in case...

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Yeah...about that.

My school closed down a year ago and the only way to keep up with my friends is through Facebook. You want to destroy that connection? Then BRING IT YOU OVER GROWN ASS HATS.

 

[blank0000]

I don't like the potential attack for many reasons.

FAcebook serves a very important role in the way people interact today. Allowing tons and tons of people to collaborate and ordinate in ways previously impossible. IT enables new technologies to be tested out, I think its a genuinely good thing.

The idea that anonymous is doing this because "someday you'll thank us" is the worst of it. The advert made them sound as controlling as the thing they claim to be stopping.

 

[ShadowKirby]

Yes, let's take down what helped the democratic revolutions in the middle east because of internet anonymity. /first-world problem

Seriously, a bunch of you guys seem to suffer from a serious superiority complex ("we need to save the sheep from themselves because WE know what's really going on") delusion and slight paranoia.

 

[Lewieroo0]

*sigh* really? are they that bloody bored?

 

[Tiger Sora]

I think this is the first time I've ever wanted Anonymous to succeed.

Not my first time and not the last. I don't care for Facebook at all.

Thats like saying because I don't like your house, I should be able to burn it down. Why do they get to fuck up everyone else's tree fort?

Cause it's the exact situation as a school yard bully. They're gona do whatever he/she wants until some bigger and stronger bully comes along. And the government is like the ineffective parent. Thats my view anyways.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

Kind of interested as to what'll come of this.

I don't think it'll be permanent, and facebook will make sure to take precautions if they think it's a valid threat (I hope they will, anyway). I'm rooting for Facebook in this because I use it fairly often.

 

[Fusioncode9]

Taking down the master hacker Mark Zuckerberg himself? Good luck, this should be interesting to watch.

 

[ninja51]

Eh, Im one of those guys who like Anonymous. If facebook goes down it isnt any skin off my back, even though I do have an account there.

Never understood the hate to be honest. They go after big fish assholes, near complete freedom of information should exist, and they hack for it. Go on being nerdier cyber Heshers' Anonymous.

 

[viranimus]

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You ask the question Why do they get to do it? Why do they get to fuck up everyone elses tree fort? Simple, because when left in the public's hand, the public did absolutely nothing to fix these problems to the point they were led blindly to believing there isn't even a problem.

Make no mistake, this is not some knee jerk reaction. There has been decades to fix these problems yet the herd refuses to act in its own best interest. The actions of Anon exist for absolutely no other reason that the publics complacency. If the public had fixed these things before they got this bad, Anon would not exist.

So as for your fire analogies, Its Sort of like a person paralyzed by fear inside a burning building. Sometimes they will even resist the firefighters trying to save their lives. Sometimes they will even force the fire fighter to leave them behind because they are too afraid to be saved.

 

[Nightvalien]

Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

I'm not the hardest facebooker, but I do use it to keep in touch with my friends when I'm 5 hours away at college

I'd be sad to see it go.

But anyway, what? Is there even a reason here? Usually they have some overblown philosophical reason behind ruining someone's day