MiracleOfSound said:
Sucal said:
Thanks, that was pretty darn informative. Makes me wonder though, surely they must have someone on a higher tier somewhere who decides what causes they fight for. Or is everything democratic?
Neither. Anonymous is basically an embodiment of Anarchy. Sure, they might reference a leadership, or talking about targets and such set out, but they is nothing of the sort. It only appears to be so, because so many out there agree on it. Say you felt like complaining about bias against green cats. You might post it somewhere, and state what you were going to do. Say you were going to turn up at a protest eating a cake while wearing a guy fawkes mask.
If other Anon agreed with you, you might have another bunch of people turning at the same time also eating cake while wearing guy fawkes masks. Alternately, a bunch might take an opposite opinion, and decide to buy up all the cake in the surrounding area, so you couldn't eat it. Or others might think its funny to post the details of those who were wearing masks online. If they had a leadership, it likely would have been arrested ages ago.
That's the thing about anonymous as a group. In many ways its like the Agents from the Matrix. Anyone at any time might become a member for a purpose. Then after that purpose is over, they go back to being normal.