This is the energy Anonymous is supposed to have. I still fondly recall the work they did on Scientology.
One of the big - but to be expected - problems had always been, that basically every group or individual could don the “Anonymous” label. But yeah, this is in the spirit of the anti-authoritarian hacker identity, that it started out with.
Granted that any time humans wield anonymous power without oversight there will be bad behaviour. When I was younger I took for granted that a key part of the social construct of Anonymous was an ironic awareness of that, hence its suitability for striking back at high-handed enemies of humanity.
I was quite young back then.
Yeah that’s kind of the point for Anonymous. It could be anyone and no one. It’s jokers telling people to put their phones in the microwave, it’s idiots putting slurs on random pages of home users, it’s concerted groups seeking to take a stance against authoritarian figures and groups. You can’t catch them because it’s not really a group of a few people, it’s an idea and a moniker that anyone can adopt. Very “I am Spartacus”.
Antifa is the same. Fascists talk about antifa like they’re going to go to their headquarters and arrest their president. Fucking morons. If you are anti fascist you are antifa. It’s that simple.
Obligatory “fuck Graham Linehan”.
Absolutely. It’s actually kind of ironic considering the episode ”the Internet is coming" actually had one of the better portrayals of a trans person in popular media for some time. Better if they actually cast a trans person for the role. But still.
I would never watch anything new with him attached. Though I don’t think that’s a worry now. But I’ll watch the old stuff for the great cast. Moran and Bailey were fantastic in black books. Probably didn’t hurt that Moran had a large hand in writing too. Parkinson, Ayoade, O’dowd, Fielding, and Berry are what made the IT crowd not Linehan. The proof is in the pilot for the version they wanted to foist on us yanks. Even with Ayodae returning, he couldn’t make it funny by himself. And that’s saying something.
the energy Anonymous is supposed to have
Obligatory “Anonymous is not your personal army,” but yeah, this is Anonymous at its best.
The energy that Anonymous as a social construct is supposed to have. I’m not here to give notes to any would-be vigilantes.
My point was more that the notion that Anonymous is “supposed to have” any particular energy is kinda misunderstanding its nature. It’s nice when it does good things, but when that happens it’s only because people who did good things decided to label themselves as Anonymous, not because because there’s some entity with good intent deciding what Anonymous should do.
Absolutely, and if any vigilante or would-be vigilante is taking notes or get inspired by this, definitely don’t continue or start to attack people that are robbing humanity. Definitely do leave the psychotic most rich megacorporations and their product and most of all their lawyers. Don’t use devices that are outside of tracking to connect to your local group because that would be stooping to their level and joining a class war that is very justified but also extremely needed but is maybe hailed and glorious but like immoral to do if you empathise with the oligarchs. They certainly are human too. Everyone knows they have humanity inside them and definitely should be considered as humans therefore not morally obliged to be dismantled like we do with other machines of death that invade our spaces
Mr Robot was great
There is no way this is the same guys who went after Scientology, however, I do love whoever they are. We need more people fighting fascism.
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Yeah… I’d be real careful getting started by joining a particular irc server known for anything.
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I was part of anon in the mid-2000s hahaha. It was a blast. I met a lot of really cool people!
I lurked, it was super interesting, definitely a lot of cool people. Quite a few pretty intense people too.
Fuck, I wish we heard more about chaotic good hackers like this more often. They’re like our modern day super heroes in some regard to me.
I think they caught most of them from back when they were more active (2009-2012) or at least were more in the public eye.
The ones that didn’t get caught went underground and stopped working together as ‘anonymous’
Lulzsec comes to mind
Remember that time Anonymous fought Scientology? That’s why we don’t have Scientology anymore.
Can’t tell if sarcastic or not.
Yeah, Scientology is still quite powerful but they were exposed for a lot during that attack.
Plus, this isn’t the same group of people. Anonymous was never a set group of hackers or anything, it was a catch all name used back in the day to keep anonymity, and then later on a bunch of edgy dorks decided to pretend they were an actual organization
I spoke out about Scientology and now have unmarked cars/vans outside my house daily (off and on for a year)… I was perma banned from Reddit for speaking my truths… it’s effing terrifying!!! Fuck Reddit and the cesspool they are creating! It’s embarrassing!
I hope that what you’re saying is true and that you aren’t experiencing some kind of breakdown.
I say that from a genuine place of concern AND, it breaks my heart that we live in a world where someone has to worry about such things.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Scientologists were stalking you, but I’ve been making fun of them online for 20+ years and I’ve never had this problem.
Were you born into Scientology? If you were, yeah, they’re probably stalking you. Same if you joined the cult at any point in your life.
Film this shit and ask people to confirm you’re dealing with this.
No breakdown, was never born into it but spoke out against my friends and family in that joke of a church/cult and now it scary! Because they targeted me on social media… I dropped everything but now Lemmy.
I believe you in documenting the encounters I have, I honestly never thought to document because I legit just felt like they were turn on me and make me be the bad guy. But honestly with everything going on… Miscaviage showed how ridiculous the “religion” is with him making shit up! They legit believe in some sort of alien…. Coming to “save them” … I still have friends in the “cult of Scientology”. And levels that don’t exist because their cult is garbage, he’s in it for money!
The difference is probably that they spoke up about their friends and family joining. Scientology is incredibly petty and well-known for stalking and harassing critics. In particular, during Operation Freakout they tried to get their critics put in mental hospitals, so it’s kinda their SOP to make it look like their critics are having a mental breakdown. You might be safe criticizing Scientology anonymously online, but if you’re annoying them in a specific way (e.g. trying to convince specific people to leave), and they know who you are, I can absolutely see them messing with you.
I really wish cults would vanish from this planet.
Humans and religion though. :/ Tale as old as time.
You give them a persecution complex and oh boy!
if you were in the scientology cult, yea they want to keep thier secrets within the cult.
Instead of facing black pieces of paper to DOGE, we can just sign their emails up for so many spam mailing lists. So many that legit emails get lost in the chaos
Where were these fuckers before the election‽ They did a lot of talk in the lead up to Nov 6th but then nothing came of it
Now they actually want to do something lmao
They were probably murdered by the CIA or something. Who would know?
you misspelled suicide
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I’m not sure what launching a DDoS would have accomplished… Twitter will be back soon enough
I fucking HATE that there is a typo. 😡
Those things always have at least one typo. That’s how you can tell they’re legit.
I guess it fits the bill for hackers not to be concerned with things like proof reading lmfao
In the old days, hackers were also fans of lexicology, etymology and other nerdy word stuff. Now that they’re into anime, it has some unexpected drawbacks (but they make cute emojis, I guess).
They’re all too neurodivergent now 😔
What are you trying to say here? That neurodivergent are lesser humans?
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They’ve DDoS’d X/Twitter?
Surely they just clicked the ‘X’ button and it closed itself down?
Apparently that’s what the news is saying
Yes more more more!!
Anonymous
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
Wow, good for them. Way to roll in to save the day after the fascists took power. Too bad they didn’t do something when it could have made a difference.
Like what? I get wishing things never got to the stage they are at, but what do you wish a bunch of unorganized hackers did earlier? Genuinely curious as I’m not good enough at coding to think of any creative “solutions”
Take out X when it was spewing disinformation about the election? Hit Facebook for the same reason? Do it when it would have mattered
Every inch is important.
They’re doing what we should all be doing. Particularly those obsessed with the 2nd amendment, since this is literally what it was made for.
Dirty little secret they don’t want to admit is 2A was for the military. Not meal team six.
I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I’ll allow it.
Makes me wonder,
Similar to all the peeps 20 years ago in the SETI@home movement, where you could donate your CPU/bandwidth.
Is there any ‘safe’ way to donate and collectively protest on the internet by signing up to a botnet?
low orbit ion cannon and friends were tools for participating in anon ddos ops back in the day, but it wasn’t exactly safe – without a vpn your isp and other intermediaries can see your traffic, and the host can see your ip address. with a vpn you’re in part dosing your vpn, depending on the attack
no idea how anon organizes such things these days
How do you join a DDoS these days?
Is LOIC and HOIC still a thing?
Or what are the cool kids doing
Haha I ran the LOIC. I also wonder what the kids are up to.
