Anonymous takes credit for blackout of Elon Musk's social media outlet
Anonymous takes credit for blackout of Elon Musk's social media outlet
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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