Is Anonymous Going Mainstream Following Website Funding? 101
DavidGilbert99 writes "For a completely online movement, the lack of an official Anonymous website is certainly strange. The reason, according to Anonymous itself is down to the lack of a hierarchical structure. However, one Anonymous-linked group could be about to change all that, having succeeded in securing $55,000 in funding for a website. Is this the beginning of Anonymous going mainstream? From the article: 'The @YourAnonNews (YAN) Twitter account has over one million followers and has leveraged its popularity to successfully raise over $55,000 (£34,000) through a crowd-funding campaign on the Indiegogo website.
The funding drive was established to allow those behind the YAN account to set up a website of its own which will allow it "to collect breaking reports and blog postings from the best independent reporters online."'"
Way to miss the point YAN (Score:3, Insightful)
The idea of an official Anonymous anything is absurd.
And for an unofficial Anonymous site, there's 4chan.
Re:Unwitting Accomplices? (Score:3, Insightful)
This isn't just late, this is slowpoke meme status (Score:4, Insightful)
Anonymous went mainstream circa 2007. Anyone thinking anything different has no understanding of what is actually going on.
Re:Unwitting Accomplices? (Score:4, Insightful)
You don't need "probable cause" or even evidence, in "terrorism" cases, apparently.
Re:DISPROVE MY POINTS TROLL...apk (Score:1, Insightful)
Hi. I am a 28 year old male that frequently reads these forums over the past several years. I generally use them to gauge popular perception on certain topics, and to find competing viewpoints to popular problems (nerds love to make each other look stupid/disprove each other/demonstrate topical intellectual superiority). I have come across your post a few times, and it is very disconcerting to see the sort of writing style you introduce as it is a very harsh contrast to the "normal" -- which goes even for non-native English speakers. I spent at least five minutes reading links and supporting evidence for "127.0.0.1" not being as efficient as "0". The amount of fervor you utilize to make this point comes off to me (and perhaps an explanation for you, many others that you refer to as trolls) as insanity. You seem to imply there is an unexplained, even conspiratorial effort at Microsoft for sabotaging your preferred host file entry method. You also seem to think you have a reputation which is at stake, and I assure you, aside from your raving posts, I have never heard of you before. The time-cube APK imposter you mention appears to be (at least to me) an adequate parody of your abrasive writing and argument style. The fact that you seem to take such excessive offense to this parody further strengthens the lehman's perception of your insanity. I suspect I am representative of a much larger sample in this regard, but you may consider me to be one additional data point.
Misdirection (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone who thinks that this represents or is backed by the core activists who are part of the collective is, well.. a fool parted with their money.
It would paint a massive bulls-eye target on anyone associated with it, pretty much saying "here I am, come get me!".
Re:Cheese is the real victim here (Score:5, Insightful)
Someone on 4chan said it best: "Anyone claiming to represent anon is not anon."