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

[StarStruckStrumpets]

I support Anonymous' stance on free speech, and would fight along side them if there were some kind of Net-War to do with censorship and what have you. However, anything else Anonymous does is really not my concern. They're too thinly spread to have an official stance, and to have an official stance on a group that doesn't have one themself would be blindly following a group whose intentions you do not understand.

I like to think of myself as a free-thinker, someone who can make up my mind based on facts, reality and education. I generally try my hardest not to blindly follow any particular cause.

 

[Jodah]

Well, I wouldn't shed a tear if they all got arrested. That being said I won't go out of my way to insult them.

 

[creager91]

When you guys say you like them because they do it to be funny, you don't think have have gone even a little too far on occasion?

 

[SamSloth]

Oh my word are you people serious? 4chan isn't some hive of cowboy vigilante hackers on steroids, riding through the internet shaping the interwebs in accordance with their will. In fact a comment talking about 4chan in that regard, mentioning Guy Fawke's masked raids and treating the place like Project Mayhem is likely to be dismissed as a delusional newfag.
http://boards.4chan.org/b/ go there, go now.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Oh man I needed a good laugh and glad this thread popped up.

Anonymous is nothing more than a bunch of bored teens trying to be edgy.

Also stop referring to 4chan in general when we all know damn well its /b/ that does all the stupid shit.

 

[naab]

I think unless we all give out are information we are all a part of Anonymous

No one here could possibly be part of Anonymous because we care too much about our own self image in reputation.

Don't get me wrong they do too but they have sacrificed their identities to just be literally one whole but they aren't organized just simply because they aren't really a group.

You could just look up encyclopedia dramatica. Probably the most honest and closest thing you'll get.

DESPITE ITS SARCASM.

 

[mortalsatsuma]

I guess I see them as a necessary evil. They do some good and some bad and as has been said before, they don't target anyone really without prior provocation. It's also hilarious to see the FBI etc try and take them down. They just don't seem to get that as long as the internet exists, so will anonymous.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

...there's no poll.

OT: I'm on the fence. Some of the stuff they do is creepy, but I support some of it. Like taking down godhatesfags.com, and supporting wikileaks.

 

[creager91]

yeah as I said before for some reason the poll didn't come up

 

[fireice56]

Wait, 4chan is just an imageboard. It isn't a secret club of hackers that fight for justice or anarchy. You guys have no idea what you're talking about. Also, if I hear one mention of "rules 1 & 2" I'm going to go apeshit.

 

[creager91]

Wait, 4chan is just an imageboard. It isn't a secret club of hackers that fight for justice or anarchy. You guys have no idea what you're talking about. Also, if I hear one mention of "rules 1 & 2" I'm going to go apeshit.

Haha you probably just baited people into mentioning them now, be prepared haha

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

I personally think somebody should grab a Shotgun/Flamethrower and find out whether those white masks can stop bullets/fire.

Let's see if they can hack their way out of that.

Am I the only one who's scared by posts like this?

OT: Yeah they're pretty hilarious and they seem to do what's right, that interview with the Phelps woman made me laugh my arse off.

 

[Kroxile]

Anonymous is all that is holy in this day and age.

What most escapists don't understand is that anonymous and 4chan "anonymous" are two different entities altogether.

 

[creager91]

Anonymous is all that is holy in this day and age.

What most escapists don't understand is that anonymous and 4chan "anonymous" are two different entities altogether.

This is kind of what I was wondering, can you please elaborate on that?

 

[Boom129]

Anon is equal parts activists with hacking skills (yay) and trolls (nay)

 

[Boom129]

Wait, 4chan is just an imageboard. It isn't a secret club of hackers that fight for justice or anarchy. You guys have no idea what you're talking about. Also, if I hear one mention of "rules 1 & 2" I'm going to go apeshit.

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[fireice56]

Anonymous is all that is holy in this day and age.

What most escapists don't understand is that anonymous and 4chan "anonymous" are two different entities altogether.

This is kind of what I was wondering, can you please elaborate on that?

Anonymous is a bunch of people from the mentally handicapped board, banding together to change things. 4chan is an imageboard that includes a series of topics ranging from cooking to firearms.

 

[opuri]

[http://img687.imageshack.us/i/thisthreadisdildos.jpg/]

This is anonymous's stance on this thread.

 

[creager91]

[http://img687.imageshack.us/i/thisthreadisdildos.jpg/]

This is anonymous's stance on this thread.

Thank you for not contributing to the topic whatsoever

 

[fireice56]

[http://img687.imageshack.us/i/thisthreadisdildos.jpg/]

This is anonymous's stance on this thread.

Thank you for not contributing to the topic whatsoever

I think he is. Unless you're being sarcastic. You should really not be sarcastic on the internet.