Anonymous "Spokesman" Quits, Forms Splinter Group

[Calbeck]

Barrett Brown...went on to give interviews about Anonymous and write press releases for its various activities. Brown was then called by some to be a spokesman for the group, which he denied stating that there was no official leadership.

Giving interviews and writing up press releases: that's a spokesman. Appointing himself to the job makes it precisely as "official" as anything else Anons do.

 

[walrusaurus]

"I'm tired of the drama," Brown said. "You've got kids fighting for control of an IRC channel..."

For a man who claims to report on anons he seems to have failed to grasp anything about it. Drama is the whole point. that and being, you know, anonymous.....

off topic: my captcha is 'Entrails were-tiger' odd....

If that's the whole point, then folks in Anonymous should have far better things to do in their lives than be ABSOLUTE FUCKING MORONS.

The idea of Anonymous when it first started seems to be SOLELY political and going after corrupt and criminal companies/organizations in the U.S. Others, mainly 4chan twats, jumped in and made it all about "lulz", completely losing the ORIGINAL POINT.

THis is incorrect, Anonymous began as an attack on Scientology, by the chans. It originally wasn't even focused online, their were staged real life protests, many of the participants wore V masks. 'We are Anonymous... and we are legion' comes from the online video they released as part of the 'campaign.' It was called Project Chanology, look it up. From this essentially grassroots operation, people such as Paul Fetch tried to manipulate the community to use the collective participants of Project Chanology to suit there agendas, which didn't go over well with the community. Anonops is the latest, and most successful of these splinter groups, largely because it maintained the semblance of anonymity. It will get ripped apart by the greater populace like the other factions before it. This is simply a form of entertainment, and yes they should have better things to do, but in my experience most /b/tards don't have much of a life.

There you go, a brief history lesson, consider yourself informed.

 

[The Shade]

So begins the Great Internet Schism.

So...now we wait for the Internet Crusades?

Can I be the Internet Pope? I wanna be the Pope. Pope Skinny the XXXVIth. That's me!

We have one of those.

Spoiler: Internet Pope

OT: It is a very interesting time to be alive and on the Internet. We are seeing the beginning of the culmination of a new, digital frontier.