Get Michael Bay to develop it?Shadie777 said:I swear we need to have a movie of this.
It would have guns and explosions!
somehow....
Is anyone surprised by this? This has been a long time coming. You get a group of wanna-be activist pranksters together, and you start talking up this image of the indestructible, unknowable "legion" (puh-leez)... You drum up some press that treats them like some force of nature, mysterious and destructive...Tom Goldman said:Permalink
why be surprised, power corrupts people, and anon is just a bunch of people.Dastardly said:Is anyone surprised by this? This has been a long time coming. You get a group of wanna-be activist pranksters together, and you start talking up this image of the indestructible, unknowable "legion" (puh-leez)... You drum up some press that treats them like some force of nature, mysterious and destructive...Tom Goldman said:Permalink
Of course they're going to start splintering and infighting. It's an illusion of power, and even that vague promise of power-without-accountability is enough to start screwing people's priorities up. This isn't Anonymous changing. This is Anonymous moving toward its inevitable conclusion, showing its true colors.
Personally, I'm glad that his little outburst resulted in the outing of quite a few of these punks. Maybe a few of them will be sent to jail. You know. For the lulz.
What he's been getting at, it seems, is that Anon claims to be this leaderless "for the people" rightsmongering organization... but really, it's an elite club addicted to the publicity and illusion of power. This Ryan, thinking himself a "true believer," is outing them because they're not staying true to the supposed vision of Anon.CheckD3 said:This "Ryan" character is a hearless person, doing the worst thing ever and hurting younger, smaller Anons by giving them...their identities! *dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!*
This is seriously fucked up in the realm of things, and just...well I feel that in the scheme of things that the attacks is really being launched by a guy who felt left out and wanted to make his way to the top by any means necessary, stepping on smaller Anons to to get there like a dictator or something, and if Anon is about helping speech, than what it attacking people for personal gain for?
Either way, seems like an interesting fight is developing, fuck Cable, who needs PSN when we have this
This this this. It's kind of frustrating that Anonymous continues to get so much reverent media attention, when they really only exist to groom their own vigilante image. They're a lot less badass than they boast.Dastardly said:(And before anyone says it, yes, there is a structure. Yes, there is a 'vision.' No, they are not an ever-changing conglomeration of concerned hacktivists. It's a group of punks with a power trip, and an ever-changing conglomeration of pranksters that follow them around to feel important.)
Neither Ryan nor Owen are being honest with themselves. This is entirely about feeling important, and you get used to that feeling over time. That means even Ryan will find himself starting do pull stunts (like, oh, this one) to make sure that others know how important he is, rather than for any "cause."