For a bunch of socially awkward nerds who do nothing but spout memes and jerk off to cartoon child porn all day, they take themselves far too seriously. I wish the media would stop blowing them and just ignore them.
who, 4chan or the baptists?ghettoperson wrote:
For a bunch of socially awkward nerds who do nothing but spout memes and jerk off to cartoon child porn all day, they take themselves far too seriously. I wish the media would stop blowing them and just ignore them.
Oh you.
lol
Has "Anonymous" ever shut down anybody or done anything similar to what they're threatening?
Has "Anonymous" ever shut down anybody or done anything similar to what they're threatening?
And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.
Yes.-Sh1fty- wrote:
lol
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Has "Anonymous" ever shut down anybody or done anything similar to what they're threatening?
WIN!Jenspm wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJwSjor4hM
And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.
People in the west have too much time on their hands.
people in the East are bent over, harvesting rice?Macbeth wrote:
People in the west have too much time on their hands.
good one, chief . . .
burnzz wrote:
people in the East are bent over, harvesting rice?Macbeth wrote:
People in the west have too much time on their hands.
good one, chief . . .
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Some of you would know that I have spoken against Anon on many occasions. I tend to think them as a self-important wannabe secret society that spends more time bullying children online than doing anything worthwhile. That video with the WBC though... I mean how can you fault that? That's was beer-battered hiltarity.
Anonymous, although deplorable on many counts, has its value. It's certainly interesting as an 'organisation' for want of a better word.
Anonymous, although deplorable on many counts, has its value. It's certainly interesting as an 'organisation' for want of a better word.
[Blinking eyes thing]
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Sounds like a valid point.Anonymous
An Open Letter to Anonymous to Clarify Their Position on Free Speech
Recently, some members of Anonymous explained their decision not to attack Westboro Baptist Church by citing their support for free speech. This seems entirely reasonable, and likely to reflect the majority of views in the Anonymous collective. However I would like someone on Anonymous to therefore defend the recent attacks on Mastercard, Paypal et al. The attacks were apparently in retaliation against those companies' decisions to suspend their relationships with the Wikileaks organization, as a response to the recent leaking of diplomatic and other classified cables. Was Anonymous defending free speech then?
Most of the time, we think of the right to free speech as the right to express one's own opinion on any subject. But Wikileaks was not doing that. They were expressing other people's opinions -- opinions which those people has chosen NOT to express freely. No matter what your opinion of the merits of the Wikileaks discosures (and for the record, I believe those released so far are going to do more good than harm), a straightforward case of free speech it certainly is not. Assessing the rights of the public to have access to ALL government communications is a nuanced and complex problem, and falls under the heading of freedom of information, rather than speech.
However, in the case of Mastercard and the other companies, they were choosing to not support Wikileaks. You may disagree with them about whether Wikileaks deserves support, but they were simply exercising their right to decide for themselves about this issue, and express that decision (in business terms). They may be corporations, but that is much more clearly an exercise of free speech than anything released by Wikileaks.
So I'm confused. Anonymous is a collection of individuals, but support for free speech seems the most widespread common feeling, and yet the cooperate attacks seemed widely supported as well. WIll someone explain in the comments?
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Very valid. Anon does have the habit of sticking its foot in its mouth.
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Freedom of information would be a better choice of wording I think. I like how some of wikileaks is spread out. It's simply reports. Data. It's up to you to take it for fact, but it's not washed and rinsed through the distorted concept that the journalist is trying to portray. It's data.
I remember reading an article based on some guy that was arrested in Pakistan- in the Pakistan newspapers he was deemed nothing short of a terrorist- but in the american newspapers he was 100% innocent and was completely misinterpreted - The scenario had induced exaggeration by the media and thus the common individual now has a warped perspective.
Onto this extremist church matter..
I'd completely missed this thread and was reading another.. ehem ... post somewhere about this retarded scenario.
One of these videos apears to be already posted above, but i'll post the ones I've come across all up. The first and last are quite... astonishing.
I remember reading an article based on some guy that was arrested in Pakistan- in the Pakistan newspapers he was deemed nothing short of a terrorist- but in the american newspapers he was 100% innocent and was completely misinterpreted - The scenario had induced exaggeration by the media and thus the common individual now has a warped perspective.
Onto this extremist church matter..
I'd completely missed this thread and was reading another.. ehem ... post somewhere about this retarded scenario.
One of these videos apears to be already posted above, but i'll post the ones I've come across all up. The first and last are quite... astonishing.
everything i write is a ramble and should not be taken seriously.... seriously. ♥
On Another note - There seemed to be alot of heat about this church based on the time these videos were uploaded to youtube about protesting near war victim funerals in 2006.
The general hype was that "Thank god they're dead" etc.
A few videos:
The reporter looses it in this - quite unprofessional - but who can blame her
This one made me laugh:
The general hype was that "Thank god they're dead" etc.
A few videos:
The reporter looses it in this - quite unprofessional - but who can blame her
This one made me laugh:
everything i write is a ramble and should not be taken seriously.... seriously. ♥
Damn that Westboro church. It's people like them that give other religions a bad name.
And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.
LoL-Sh1fty- wrote:
Damn that Westboro church. It's people like them that give other religions a bad name.
What? Shifty gives religion a great name.Macbeth wrote:
LoL-Sh1fty- wrote:
Damn that Westboro church. It's people like them that give other religions a bad name.
I never said I was perfect. Biblical morals (KJV) are still better than any other though.
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And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.
Not really no.
how so?
Last edited by -Sh1fty- (2011-02-26 12:51:28)
And above your tomb, the stars will belong to us.
i have performed over 9000 sinsJenspm wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJwSjor4hM
wonder if the dragonball writers ever expected this shit
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