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AltarNation
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overall I think this assessment is pro-anon enough that they won't firebomb our servers... haha.
dr.gonzo1
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Anonymous stand up for the little man and for that they should be commended.
An excellent example of the work they do on our behalf.
The Steubenville files
On August 27, 2012 two members of the Big Red High School football team in Steubenville, Ohio USA were arrested and charged with the rape and kidnapping of an out of town 16 year old girl that took place on August 11th. At the time of this gang rape, the girl was intoxicated and unconscious.*The victim had been intentionally drugged with a date rape intoxicant. She was photographed and video was taken of her in this condition, and there is evidence that she was hauled in a comatose state to multiple parties and almost certainly raped by more members of the local high school football team than just the two players who currently stand charged. There is even evidence that she was urinated upon during this hideous assault.
Despite all this, it looked as though a town rife with corruption, cronyism, illegal gambling* and fixated upon their star high school football team (a major economic revenue engine) were prepared to orchestrate a major cover-up in order to sweep the entire affair under the rug. As this disclosure will document, this cover-up was perpetrated by people in the high school administration, local government and law enforcement.
Enter Anonymous
On December 23, 2012 a cell within Anonymous called Knight Sec took up the cause of giving a voice to the victim of this horrible crime, and began unraveling this conspiracy of silence designed to protect a group of these high school football players who had become well known to their fellow students as The Rape Crew. Fueled by intelligence they had received from many students at Big Red High School, they launched*Operation RollRedRoll*by releasing this video. Take careful note of the various screen capture images of pictures taken by these monsters of this poor defenseless girl, and note their many comments made in tweets and Facebook posts regarding their crime (now since deleted).
http://localleaks.blogs.ru/
An excellent example of the work they do on our behalf.
The Steubenville files
On August 27, 2012 two members of the Big Red High School football team in Steubenville, Ohio USA were arrested and charged with the rape and kidnapping of an out of town 16 year old girl that took place on August 11th. At the time of this gang rape, the girl was intoxicated and unconscious.*The victim had been intentionally drugged with a date rape intoxicant. She was photographed and video was taken of her in this condition, and there is evidence that she was hauled in a comatose state to multiple parties and almost certainly raped by more members of the local high school football team than just the two players who currently stand charged. There is even evidence that she was urinated upon during this hideous assault.
Despite all this, it looked as though a town rife with corruption, cronyism, illegal gambling* and fixated upon their star high school football team (a major economic revenue engine) were prepared to orchestrate a major cover-up in order to sweep the entire affair under the rug. As this disclosure will document, this cover-up was perpetrated by people in the high school administration, local government and law enforcement.
Enter Anonymous
On December 23, 2012 a cell within Anonymous called Knight Sec took up the cause of giving a voice to the victim of this horrible crime, and began unraveling this conspiracy of silence designed to protect a group of these high school football players who had become well known to their fellow students as The Rape Crew. Fueled by intelligence they had received from many students at Big Red High School, they launched*Operation RollRedRoll*by releasing this video. Take careful note of the various screen capture images of pictures taken by these monsters of this poor defenseless girl, and note their many comments made in tweets and Facebook posts regarding their crime (now since deleted).
http://localleaks.blogs.ru/
minnesmoker
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I love anonymous. The thing is, there's really no "group" it's just individuals who know how to do things, know how to find each other, and get behind an idea (helping someone who's been injured or wronged, confronting hate groups, etc.) the idea coalesces the group, not the other way around. It's an amazing movement now, and was fun to watch as it grew through the early 00's...
Moon Goblin
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[video=youtube;lrtFrXRD7KM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrtFrXRD7KM[/video]
dr.gonzo1
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Thanks for posting, had no idea how to embed video.
More people need to see this imo.
Fuckers would have got away with it if it wasnt for knight sec stepping in.
dr.gonzo1
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Anon have nothing close to absolute power but if they can bring injustices such as above then whoever it is will have my support.
Stonerman Enoch
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Be prepared for incoming wall of text.(This was written by a reddit user I'll give a link at the bottom)
There's a few similar answers here, but a lot of history missing. I'll summarize and let others elaborate.
Our story begins some time ago when the internet was still relatively new...
In Japan, nerds are ostracized socially. They are called "otaku" and they get a lot of very negative media attention. If someone is outed as an otaku, people may look down on them, even disown them as friends or refuse to hire them. But there are also a very very large amount of nerds in Japan. This, combined with the facts that Japan as a whole is a very tech savvy country, but also very private, gave rise to a very important message board called 2channel. It was important because it pioneered the idea that you should be able to post to a message board anonymously. This way, you could discuss your nerdy hobbies openly with like-minded individuals and not have it link back to your real identity. Your hobbies were private from your real life, and vice versa. 2channel was very popular, but left out some important features. A different website was made that was like 2channel except you could post images instead of just text. It was called 2chan (or "futaba channel").
Meanwhile in America, the internet was rapidly growing. American nerds were creating "underground communities" on the internet that focused heavily on not only discussion of hobbies and interests, but content creation and the rapid spreading of jokes and other anecdotes. One of these (probably the biggest in its time) was called Something Awful, or SA for short. SA was also a pioneer in some of its fields, by forcing users to spend $10 for an account in order to post but also would permanently ban you for the slightest rulebreaking (this helped stop spam and prevent unwanted mediocre posts). SA also really pushed the envelope in controversial topics, by creating dark humor and shock value. However, you were still required to register in order to post, which meant that a paper-trail was always left that could possibly lead back to you. A member of this community named Moot learned of 2chan over in japan and felt the philosophy of anonymous posting could do well in communities like SA. He replicated the 2chan software and called it 4chan.
4chan quickly developed a cult following and became the source of many of the classic memes and internet culture we see today, for better or worse. The core userbase came from SA, but it grew very very rapidly. The community of 4chan flew the banner of anonymity proudly. They referred to users of 4chan as "anonymous" and branded anonymous as a single entity, a hivemind, which they personified as a character wearing a suit with a "no picture available" face as you might see when no avatar is provided on a conventional forum. This character (as a result ofother memes and in-jokes (nsfw) of the website) would sometimes be seen wearing the guy fawkes mask instead of his typical green face.
4chan had one major flaw: There was no social aspect. The point was to be and remain anonymous, so people could never really connect, socialize or develop friendships in a meaningful way (except for at 4chan panels at anime conventions, which were only visited by niche members of the website) . Those that tried were ostracised and belittled by the website as a whole for going against what it stood for, even though it was something everyone really wanted (since people are inherently social creatures and we like being friends with like-minded people). [Note, this is my opinion on the matter but I think it's one many would agree with] This reached a kind of critical mass until anon decided to create a kind of large global 4chan meetup under the guise of protesting the Church of Scientology, kind of a way to kill two birds with one stone.
There were some interesting successes and failures as a result of this social experiment, and several factions formed as a result. Some loved meeting other Anons. Some thought it went against everything the website stood for. Some people really got involved in the cause of protesting Scientology. Some thought meeting anons was cool, but protesting scientology was childish. Some forgot about the whole thing and moved on. All of these people called themselves "anonymous", but they all started going down very different paths. The Scientology protest movement grew legs of its own and eventually separated itself from their ties to 4chan. This same group and other groups inspired by this activist movement is what media commonly refers to when they say "anonymous", and their roots are why they share the monkier and guy-fawkes imagery with 4chan. However, 4chan's "anonymous" and the activist "anonymous" group, while sharing roots and oftentimes members, are often mistaken as the same group when they should be referred to as separate. Realistically though, "anonymous" is more of an idea than anything. It was founded by nerds on imageboards, but it has really spread as a concept that says "you have the right to speak your mind anonymously without it affecting your real identity".
edit: comical tl;dr "people on the internet wanted to talk about anime girl butts without their friends and family calling them losers so they made websites for that and it caught on"
http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/16tg1i/eli5_anonymous_and_its_history/
Not a glorious history.
There's a few similar answers here, but a lot of history missing. I'll summarize and let others elaborate.
Our story begins some time ago when the internet was still relatively new...
In Japan, nerds are ostracized socially. They are called "otaku" and they get a lot of very negative media attention. If someone is outed as an otaku, people may look down on them, even disown them as friends or refuse to hire them. But there are also a very very large amount of nerds in Japan. This, combined with the facts that Japan as a whole is a very tech savvy country, but also very private, gave rise to a very important message board called 2channel. It was important because it pioneered the idea that you should be able to post to a message board anonymously. This way, you could discuss your nerdy hobbies openly with like-minded individuals and not have it link back to your real identity. Your hobbies were private from your real life, and vice versa. 2channel was very popular, but left out some important features. A different website was made that was like 2channel except you could post images instead of just text. It was called 2chan (or "futaba channel").
Meanwhile in America, the internet was rapidly growing. American nerds were creating "underground communities" on the internet that focused heavily on not only discussion of hobbies and interests, but content creation and the rapid spreading of jokes and other anecdotes. One of these (probably the biggest in its time) was called Something Awful, or SA for short. SA was also a pioneer in some of its fields, by forcing users to spend $10 for an account in order to post but also would permanently ban you for the slightest rulebreaking (this helped stop spam and prevent unwanted mediocre posts). SA also really pushed the envelope in controversial topics, by creating dark humor and shock value. However, you were still required to register in order to post, which meant that a paper-trail was always left that could possibly lead back to you. A member of this community named Moot learned of 2chan over in japan and felt the philosophy of anonymous posting could do well in communities like SA. He replicated the 2chan software and called it 4chan.
4chan quickly developed a cult following and became the source of many of the classic memes and internet culture we see today, for better or worse. The core userbase came from SA, but it grew very very rapidly. The community of 4chan flew the banner of anonymity proudly. They referred to users of 4chan as "anonymous" and branded anonymous as a single entity, a hivemind, which they personified as a character wearing a suit with a "no picture available" face as you might see when no avatar is provided on a conventional forum. This character (as a result ofother memes and in-jokes (nsfw) of the website) would sometimes be seen wearing the guy fawkes mask instead of his typical green face.
4chan had one major flaw: There was no social aspect. The point was to be and remain anonymous, so people could never really connect, socialize or develop friendships in a meaningful way (except for at 4chan panels at anime conventions, which were only visited by niche members of the website) . Those that tried were ostracised and belittled by the website as a whole for going against what it stood for, even though it was something everyone really wanted (since people are inherently social creatures and we like being friends with like-minded people). [Note, this is my opinion on the matter but I think it's one many would agree with] This reached a kind of critical mass until anon decided to create a kind of large global 4chan meetup under the guise of protesting the Church of Scientology, kind of a way to kill two birds with one stone.
There were some interesting successes and failures as a result of this social experiment, and several factions formed as a result. Some loved meeting other Anons. Some thought it went against everything the website stood for. Some people really got involved in the cause of protesting Scientology. Some thought meeting anons was cool, but protesting scientology was childish. Some forgot about the whole thing and moved on. All of these people called themselves "anonymous", but they all started going down very different paths. The Scientology protest movement grew legs of its own and eventually separated itself from their ties to 4chan. This same group and other groups inspired by this activist movement is what media commonly refers to when they say "anonymous", and their roots are why they share the monkier and guy-fawkes imagery with 4chan. However, 4chan's "anonymous" and the activist "anonymous" group, while sharing roots and oftentimes members, are often mistaken as the same group when they should be referred to as separate. Realistically though, "anonymous" is more of an idea than anything. It was founded by nerds on imageboards, but it has really spread as a concept that says "you have the right to speak your mind anonymously without it affecting your real identity".
edit: comical tl;dr "people on the internet wanted to talk about anime girl butts without their friends and family calling them losers so they made websites for that and it caught on"
http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/16tg1i/eli5_anonymous_and_its_history/
Not a glorious history.
MojoRison
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I can agree
theQuetzalcoatl
Active Member
Mojo! Clean out your pm box!
WeedKillsBrainCells
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I remember when anonymous wasn't a gay crusading group where teens got together to protest bad people in their gay masks
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Ursus marijanus
Their mortal mistake: they made a name for themselves. cn
