• Dasus@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yeah I think the name sort of hints at that, for anyone using their thinking muscles

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    211·
    2 months ago

    Maybe some early pranks. Most of what they do seems legit, fighting oppression and calling out bigots and disgusting people.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    I most disagree with identifying Anonymous as a group. It was meant to be a label under which anyone could do anything, granted power through what it was specifically not, and the attempts by people both within and without to make it a group destroyed the value of the Anonymous label.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    Probably defacing PBS?

    Though I think that may have kindof been the FBI’s idea rather than Anonymous’. (It took place after Sabu was compromised by the FBI and I think it was kindof Sabu that started… was it LulzSec that that PBS hack was done under?)

    Fuckin’ FBI.

    (Also, don’t know why you’re getting downvotes.)

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    27·
    2 months ago

    The Scientology fight

    Damn, I completely misread the question, sorry about that.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      While I’m not against an anonymous stand for what’s “right”, that really was the tipping point for a lot of changes on 4chan.

      It really fuelled the idea that anonymous should have some sort of goal of justice rather than just doing things “for the lulz”. It normalized the concept of shamelessly bringing your internet culture of choice out into the real world regardless of appropriateness (most of the protests were really just 4chan irl meetups, not really protests).

      The biggest change was the sheer amount of public attention it drew to the site. That brought in a huge influx of new users who didn’t care to conform to the existing board culture (for better or worse). Things changed considerably following all that mess.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        2·
        2 months ago

        You know what?

        I completely misread the title, I read it as what action did you agree the most with.

        And since that was the one big thing that came to mind, that is what I wrote, I am sorry for the confusion