Originally posted by inj3ct0r
Anonymous is a very evil group. People think they are cool just because they go after the government. But what about the 1000's of people that become
victims in the process.
Seriously I can give you many reasons why 'Anonymous' is evil but it will probably break the tnc's.
What groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous do is attempt to stop the average person having a choice at all. In engaging in a Distributed Denial of
Service (DDoS) attack against a business, so-called hacktivists are not promoting freedom: they are using force to promote their views, and removing
the choices other people would have made.
It’s one thing to attempt to convince people to change their view – but there are many ways of doing this. Some of the recent non-violent rallies
against Walmart (in response to a sexual discrimination lawsuit) in the US are examples of one, non-dogmatic approach.
Force and coercion do not create freedom – they only create fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Anon is hardly evil, they may stop you from buying the latest 'widget' on the internet for a few hours, but evil
The sensationalist article you linked to was regarding Anon's attack on Paypal and Mastercard etc back in 2011. This DDoS was in direct response to
these institutions decision not to allow fundraising for Wikileaks (how things change in a couple of years

) which was probably at the request of
Gov.
I like Anon's stance on a lot of things in principle, but when I step back and think about it for a bit I realise that a lot of what they say is
idealistic and simplistic at best. For instance, Anon are presently attempting to make DDoS an act of free speech, they liken it to a 'virtual
sit-in', this is in itself a dangerous move as its not only Anon who make use of DDoS.
Last year Russia was severely attacked in the run up to the elections - the sites attacked were anti-Putin and it could easily be argued that the
originators of these attacks were government backed and sanctioned.
Force and coercion do not create freedom – they only create fear, uncertainty and doubt.
I can think of many governments who've been pushing this particular agenda for years.
BUT when they go for the bankers I'm fully behind them and screw the consequences - they deserve EVERYTHING thats coming their way.