Anonymous used to be evil now they can just be described as "Chaotic Neutral" I mean they used to attack innocent people and now all they do is attack internet camwhores and morons.
Anonymous has no organization or leadership or anything, any of them can do what they want and much of it is retarded because its not like they all need to be on board for it.Celtic_Kerr said:Dudes... seriously, these people are pricks...
Epilepsy Foundation forum invasion
On March 28, 2008, Wired News reported that "Internet griefers"?a makeshift term for people whose only interest are in harassing others[47]?assaulted an epilepsy support forum run by the Epilepsy Foundation of America.[48] JavaScript code and flashing computer animations were posted with the intention of triggering migraine headaches and seizures in photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics.[48] According to Wired News, circumstantial evidence suggested that the attack was perpetrated by Anonymous users, with the initial attack posts on the epilepsy forum blaming eBaum's World. Members of the epilepsy forum claimed they had found a thread in which the attack was being planned at 7chan.org, an imageboard that has been described as a stronghold for Anonymous. The thread, like all old threads eventually do on these types of imageboards, has since cycled to deletion.[48]
RealTechNews[unreliable source?] reported that the forum at the United Kingdom?based National Society for Epilepsy was also subjected to an identical attack. It stated that "apparent members of Anonymous" had denied responsibility for both attacks and posted that it had been the Church of Scientology who carried them out.[49] News.com.au reported that the administrators of 7chan.org had posted an open letter claiming that the attacks had been carried out by the Church of Scientology "to ruin the public opinion of Anonymous, to lessen the effect of the lawful protests against their virulent organization" under the Church's fair game policy.[47] The Tech Herald[unreliable source?] reported that when the attack began, posts referenced multiple groups, including Anonymous. The report attributes the attack to a group named "The Internet Hate Machine" (a reference to the KTTV Fox 11 news report), who claim to be part of Anonymous, but are not the same faction that are involved in the campaign against Scientology.[50]
Some Anonymous participants of Project Chanology suggest that the perpetrators are internet users who merely remained anonymous in the literal sense, and thus had no affiliation with the larger anti-Scientology efforts attributed to Anonymous.[50] During an interview with CNN, Scientologist Tommy Davis accused Anonymous of hacking into the Epilepsy Foundation website to make it display imagery intended to cause epileptic seizures. Interviewer John Roberts contended the FBI said that it "found nothing to connect this group Anonymous (with these actions)", and that it also has "no reason to believe that these charges will be leveled against this group".[51] The response was that the matter was on the hands of local law enforcement and that there were ongoing investigations.[51]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29#Epilepsy_Foundation_forum_invasion
Yet every time I've asked anyone to refute one of The Daily Show's generally well-researched arguments, all I get is more nonsensical name-calling and demands that "we," whoever that is, need to "think for ourselves" and "not listen to the mainstream media." You've just done it here. And you're offering up the good ol' logical fallacies by the shovelful. I'm really starting to get pissed off every time someone spits out the "Now, I don't believe everything <O'Reilly/Limbaugh/Hannity/CunCoulter> says, but they're better than them Jon Daily Show communists" bullshit.Sir John The Net Knight said:People trusted Walter Cronkite because he told you the news. Jon Stewart is simply a mouthpiece for Viacom, spinning the news as they tell him to spin it. That hardly makes the man trustworthy, as I see it. Of course it would be simply wrong of me to say he's the only person that does this. In fact every facet of the media, liberal and conservative, does this. It's difficult to find people who tell you the whole truth and not care if it's the truth you want to hear.Shadowkire said:Welcome to how Liberals felt during the Bush years(minus the Stewart).Sir John The Net Knight said:I will always be amazed how the most utterly reprehensible creatures and entities will be allowed endless berth when they are compared to anyone or anything that dares to question the policies of the Obama administration.
What I'd like is if people to research things before they open their mouth and simply regurgitate Jon Stewart in my face. I do respect dissenting opinion if it's well presented.
What is a well presented argument in your opinion? Is it your arguments? The ones where you constantly compare other people's speech to throwing up?
BTW many repeat Stewart because they trust him, maybe they shouldn't but I personally wouldn't trust any news source in the US to report on the US or it's politics, which reduces the potential research material to Canadian news and what other countries may have heard being shouted from across an ocean.
After all, the truth isn't profitable.
"No taxation with or without representation" just doesn't have the same ring to it, y'know?Chaos-Spider said:So...No tea was actually thrown into the ocean this time?
True, but does that mean that there is a political party in America, or at least Oregon called the tea party? because that sounds strange, even for the name of a political party.RvLeshrac said:"No taxation with or without representation" just doesn't have the same ring to it, y'know?Chaos-Spider said:So...No tea was actually thrown into the ocean this time?
When did political parties ever show intelligence or logic?Chaos-Spider said:True, but does that mean that there is a political party in America, or at least Oregon called the tea party? because that sounds strange, even for the name of a political party.RvLeshrac said:"No taxation with or without representation" just doesn't have the same ring to it, y'know?Chaos-Spider said:So...No tea was actually thrown into the ocean this time?
Why would a conservative political party want a slogan including the phrase "we do not forgive"? It doesn't sound like something that would attract new voters, which is ultimately what they want from the event.
HERP DERP [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=herp%20derp]similar.squirrel said:Could somebody please explain what 'herp derp' means?
Not really, I view most conservative politicians as slime bags. Hell, I've been at several conservative parties in Canada (I've even met the old finance minister for instance) thanks to some well connected friends of mine and that really helped cement my views that they basically just want to be rich at any cost. If that meant resorting to anon like tactics to flame competition, I have no doubt they would do it.Andy Chalk said:but does anyone else find it disturbing that the Tea Party [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement], which bills itself as a legitimate voice of conservative political dissent in the United States, "admires" the tactics of Anonymous?
via: Twitter [http://twitter.com/AllenVarney/status/19746436671]
Permalink
I LOL'd so hard when I read this...Celtic_Kerr said:On March 28, 2008, Wired News reported that "Internet griefers"?a makeshift term for people whose only interest are in harassing others[47]?assaulted an epilepsy support forum run by the Epilepsy Foundation of America.[48] JavaScript code and flashing computer animations were posted with the intention of triggering migraine headaches and seizures in photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics.
Okay first, they are NOT an ORGANISATION!Lono Shrugged said:Any organization dedicated to being so childish and stupid gets no respect in my opinion. I understand that they are a vast group of people supposedly fighting injustice etc. on the internet, but I really don't like their methods. As said it's dickish and I don't like the way they use this fear of account hacking anyone who messes with them. Reminds me too much of bullies I grew up with.
As for Scientology, I don't understand how they have fought it. I mean do they educate people in the church on it's activities or offer alternatives? I'm genuinely interested as I can't imagine that everyone in it is as assholish as the guys I've heard about.