Kudistos Megistos said:
Porcupine_I said:
it's disgusting!
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What's disgusting is the sensationalism in the reporting of this story. Looking at this site, I'm reminded of those old Fox News reports on "hackers on steroids" (warning: watching this video might lower your IQ, or might make you realise that VGChartz's reporting is of the same quality).
As someone has said, the worst anonymous is going to do to anyone at Sony or their families is make the internet equivalent of prank calls. Anonymous are not "hackers" (I suspect most journalists don't know what this word means) and their abilities are limited to pressing F5, running LOIC, trawling through the internet for personal information posted in public places, and being potty-mouthed once they've found a target. Anyone who has ever taken part in a 4chan raid or been in a thread in which one has been organised will know how little threat anonymous actually poses.
The way this story is reported is at the same time amusing and frightening. It is certainly based on either ignorance or mendaciousness. Perhaps we can learn something about the old media and the general public in the way they sex-up stories about uncoordinated attacks by 4channers and imagine them as either revolutionary movements or something akin to war or terrorism, an absolutely disgusting comparison that is an insult both to human intelligence and to the memories of people who have actually died as a result of real terrorism.
I think people just want an exciting story.
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