I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I’ll allow it.
Good on them, I guess. But Twitter is only a small part of the problem.
Remember that time Anonymous fought Scientology? That’s why we don’t have Scientology anymore.
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!
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
Anonymous
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
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.
Could they challenge DOGE?
Nice. I love anonymous.
This is the energy Anonymous is supposed to have. I still fondly recall the work they did on Scientology.
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.
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.
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.
Bunch of anons: DDoS Xitter
Elona: Ukraine did it!
Wait before this dimwit will start screaming of casus belli against an unfriendly Ukraine and the USA will start selling Russia weapons.
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.
They’re based on the AnonOps IRC so it is, technically, the same sect of Anonymous. Although anyone can join and start an Op there so…
Yeah… I’d be real careful getting started by joining a particular irc server known for anything.
This was YEARS ago. Haven’t been on there in over a decade now ;)
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
where were these fuckers before the election
Shitposting on chan boards, running right wing grifts, spreading QAnon conspiracies…
I’m not sure what launching a DDoS would have accomplished… Twitter will be back soon enough
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
Honestly, even if it isn’t doing much, it’s making a statement which is more than enough.
Wow it’s been a little while since I’ve heard Anonymous taking credit
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
