Poll: So where do you stand on Anonymous and why?

[Random berk]

Anyone remember the 'You Done Goofed' girl? It was an image meme featuring a crying girl and a father yelling incompetently at the internet through her webcam. It was set up to look like the stereotypical redneck father vainly shaking his fist at 'them durned kids.' A story of Anonymous, the proud upstanding geeks being able to laugh at the stupid hillbilly who can't beat them up over a wireless connection. Except that it all started when Anonymous make lewd sexual suggestions to an elementary school girl, including asking her to strip, and then started to send her death threats. The girl ended up under police protection while her father made his ultimately useless rant to try desperately to get them to leave his little girl alone.

Yeah, I just read the full story on this one the other day. These are exactly the kind of stories they don't like you hearing about. Things like the WBC and scientology campaigns may seem noble, but the same methods allow some of the sickest bastards on the internet to ruin people's lives and get away with it. If Anonymous developed some kind of loose heirarchy and weeded out the real scumbags, while better organising their more honourable campaigns, then they really might deserve respect. But stuff like that just causes a black stain on the whole entity.

 

[Dogstile]

as any freelance hacker with some skill could pretend to be one of them

A freelance hacker with any sort of skill is one of them, if he takes up the flag of Anon.
Anon doesn't screen in newbies. They just go "eh, do whatever".

OT: I like em. I'm really fond of just about everything they do (read: just about)

 

[Kadoodle]

I approve of their actions so far, but they worry me. They are not as organized as they seem. They are more like a riot: one person gets riled up over something, and they'll follow without question. In other words, their cause is never set in stone. That being said, they/it are/is unpredictable. They're lawless vigilantes, but what happens when the vigilantes start fighting for the wrong cause?

 

[moretimethansense]

I stand on their neck, it hurts more.

It's people only being ballsy because they believe they're safe. Which isn't ballsy at all. Sure, I can agree with some of what they do but it's only because they're so 'anonymous' that they bother at all.

The way I look at it is that if they weren't anonymous they wouldn't be able to be.
It's all well an good saying they should reveal themselves but if they did they'd go to jail, wouldn't pass go and wouldn't collect £200, revealing who they are wouldn't prove they're brave, it'd prove they are stupid.

OP: I Agree with the ideology (free speech and lulz) and I even approve of their methods to a degree, but their targets are too indiscriminate for my liking.

 

[Crudler]

My goodness, you people.
Anon is not a large organised group of people. It's just a bunch of people from 4chan; which I should mention has many boards other than /b/ and /v/. They're not a large group of people bent on raising hell.

Anyone remember the 'You Done Goofed' girl? It was an image meme featuring a crying girl and a father yelling incompetently at the internet through her webcam. It was set up to look like the stereotypical redneck father vainly shaking his fist at 'them durned kids.' A story of Anonymous, the proud upstanding geeks being able to laugh at the stupid hillbilly who can't beat them up over a wireless connection. Except that it all started when Anonymous make lewd sexual suggestions to an elementary school girl, including asking her to strip, and then started to send her death threats. The girl ended up under police protection while her father made his ultimately useless rant to try desperately to get them to leave his little girl alone.


No, they attack the weak and the innocent. SO that's why I don't like them.

Whilst I prefer the old fashioned way of discovering memes, http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jessi-slaughter will suitably educate you on the matter. She is not so innocent as you seem to suggest. I think this sums her up fairly well "She is also quoted as saying ?Any type of fame, I?ll take.? at the beginning."

They do not just attack the weak and innocent. Quite frankly they don't care that much often enough. Any request to cause an attack will likely be met with "Not your personal army." Stop being so bloody afraid of 4chan, all of you. It is not a secret club, it is not hard to understand that it is little more than any other conglomeration of people albeit behind a mask.

Remember the famous quote: ?Ethics is what you do when no one is looking.? And on 4chan, they may be looking at you, but they cannot see you. Of course if some of you actually went there and stopped judging people on more than hearsay, well you might form more justified opinions.

 

[Fuselage]

Really, If you have not shown your face on the internet you are already part of Anonymous.
Now if you take part in raids however...

 

[creager91]

I personally feel like if they could strike a deal with the government and come out of anonmity to the government only then they could be a real organization. It just seems like they NEED rules and NEED screening processes or else they open themselves to fire from people who my not support their real goals idk my logic is probably quite flawed

 

[Sovvolf]

I haven't quite made up my mind on them yet. They've done some incredibly good things for the world. However they've all done some really dickish things. They seem to like to resort to cyber bullying people which I don't really like. So yeah, not on there side, not opposing them. Don't bother me and I won't bother you. Though if they're taking on the WBC then I'll rally to their side for this campaign.

 

[BRMXJzjsoawk321]

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[Romidude]

I'm a part of it

So positive

What do you mean by "I'm part of it"? Is there like a "SIGN UP HERE TO BE PART OF ANONYMOUS" Or do you just deem youself one?

 

[Zuljiin]

I think they're an interesting social phenomenon.

Normal person + anonymity = huge douchebag.

Normal person + anonymity + animal abuse = awesome, righteous shitstorm.

So yeah, uhm, they do good sometimes, they stand for utter and indiscriminate open speech... I like 'em, for the most part. And the shit where they do stupid stuff? Trolls are everywhere on the internet, and if you don't learn to deal with them you'll have a rough time here.

Also they're against Scientology. Thumbs up!

 

[creager91]

What kind of anonymous are we talking about here, guys? I don't think I have the same one in mind as you people do.

Well which one are you thinking of?

The one where you don't fill in the blank for a name when you post and then you just show up as "Anonymous". :k

Were talking about the group that rallied behind wikileaks and recently had a fake scuffle with the WBC but they have also been blamed for some horrible stuff on 4chan and facebook. pretty much what the other people posted sums it all up.

Hope this helped

 

[hem dazon 90]

I'm a part of it

So positive

What do you mean by "I'm part of it"? Is there like a "SIGN UP HERE TO BE PART OF ANONYMOUS" Or do you just deem youself one?

I'm a regular poster on 4chan,7chan,789chan,N0chan, and 420chan

I also sometimes participate in raids so I think I'm qualified to say that

 

[Enigmers]

I don't understand how anyone can have an opinion on "Anonymous" if "Anonymous" isn't even a consistent group.

Anonymous is simply whoever happens to be on 4chan's /b/ at any given point in time, which is far too big and ambiguous a group of people to put a label on. There's a reason they're called "Anonymous."

 

[creager91]

Im going to be honest I'm quite surprised at how generally mature this topic has stayed, I kind of expected it to turn into an immature flame war

 

[Flig]

Anyone remember the 'You Done Goofed' girl? It was an image meme featuring a crying girl and a father yelling incompetently at the internet through her webcam. It was set up to look like the stereotypical redneck father vainly shaking his fist at 'them durned kids.' A story of Anonymous, the proud upstanding geeks being able to laugh at the stupid hillbilly who can't beat them up over a wireless connection. Except that it all started when Anonymous make lewd sexual suggestions to an elementary school girl, including asking her to strip, and then started to send her death threats. The girl ended up under police protection while her father made his ultimately useless rant to try desperately to get them to leave his little girl alone.

Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. You do understand that JessiSlaughter(the girl in question) was being a bratty little girl who went posted the most annoying videos I'd ever seen, right? Some people started making some troll posts here and there on her videos, so she made a retaliation video where she said something along the lines of "Ima bust a cap in your bitchasses" or something about shooting people that was heavily coated in profanity while she went on about how awesome she was. So /b/ trolled the shit out of her. She couldn't take it and her dad came in with the funniest rant I've ever seen while she cried about how people were being mean to her when she didn't do anything. Honestly, anon went to far, but she deserved some form of punishment. Besides, it was for the lulz.


Anyway, rant aside, I enjoy the antics of anonymous and /b/. And I may or may not have helped in the DDoS attacks in support of Wikileaks.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I don't care about them.

Whatever cause they are actually working towards(It changes literally every 6 seconds), it won't change the fact that I have to go to school tomorrow.

 

[creager91]

Anyone remember the 'You Done Goofed' girl? It was an image meme featuring a crying girl and a father yelling incompetently at the internet through her webcam. It was set up to look like the stereotypical redneck father vainly shaking his fist at 'them durned kids.' A story of Anonymous, the proud upstanding geeks being able to laugh at the stupid hillbilly who can't beat them up over a wireless connection. Except that it all started when Anonymous make lewd sexual suggestions to an elementary school girl, including asking her to strip, and then started to send her death threats. The girl ended up under police protection while her father made his ultimately useless rant to try desperately to get them to leave his little girl alone.

Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. You do understand that JessiSlaughter(the girl in question) was being a bratty little girl who went posted the most annoying videos I'd ever seen, right? Some people started making some troll posts here and there on her videos, so she made a retaliation video where she said something along the lines of "Ima bust a cap in your bitchasses" or something about shooting people that was heavily coated in profanity while she went on about how awesome she was. So /b/ trolled the shit out of her. She couldn't take it and her dad came in with the funniest rant I've ever seen while she cried about how people were being mean to her when she didn't do anything. Honestly, anon went to far, but she deserved some form of punishment. Besides, it was for the lulz.


Anyway, rant aside, I enjoy the antics of anonymous and /b/. And I may or may not have helped in the DDoS attacks in support of Wikileaks.

If thats the case then I agree that they went too far but what you said is typically what gets left out when theres a story about underage girls and creeps

 

[Yoshemo]

I like anonymous. I've even been to one of their Scientology protests =P Although they do go too far at times