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theprof00 on 04 May 2011
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richardhutnik said:
theprof00 said:

Like, Brett banned trolling and flaming, and yet vgc members do it ALL THE TIME. Now imagine that they banned trolling and flaming, but didn't have any actual power to ban anyone.

That's what Anonymous is.... basically, the hacking equivalent of the gamefaqs forums

Oh, and like others said, it's not an organization more than it is an idea. That idea is pretty much V for Vendetta. People's rights, disestablishment, freedom, justice. Just because someone says, "don't attack Sony", the idea that Sony must be taken to justice is the essence of Anon. 

One can say, "the hacker's version of 4Chan" because Anonymous had origins from 4Chan.  Started as idea there and then morphed and grew to different individuals collaborating on the internet under the Anonymous banner, adding things like the V for Vendetta angle.  Now you will get guys going in public where V masks.

yeah, but this is a gaming website, so I figured people might know a little more about gamefaqs than any of the #chan sites. Yes, Anon does come from 4chan. To anyone not in the know, 4chan is a message board with no membership. No email ties, nothing. Everyone's default "name" is anonymous. This gives people incredible freedom. You can go online and spout complete nonsense one day, which would normally tip people off about you IRL, and then the next day pretend you never said it. There are no strings, no anything, and it results in a lot of underground illegal activity, like posting snuff, file uploading, virus software (to create viruses), etc etc.

They do raids on people, like, someone will post a picture or a guy holding a dead cat, explain a story of how they killed the cat, and anon (this is what you call a poster in 4chan) will say "WE R LEGAY'N" and they'll hack people's facebook accounts, and use tons of other methods to find exactly where the picture was taken. At that time, they'll find the persons friend-circle, his schedule, his family's schedule, where he lives, get people to dumpster dive, steal the identities of the family etc etc etc. There is no ORGANIZER, or LEADERSHIP there. It's chaos.

BUT, I do have to admit that legion is 90% of the time, morally right (in a renegade cop kinda way).