So, is this how it must be?
I’m thinking that we get Anonymous when the structures of your democratic institutions are corrupted and ineffective. When the voice of the people is lost in the swirl of corporate dollars and lobbying, we get Anonymous. When the elites believe that they are truly untouchable and are a gift to the rest of us, we get Anonymous.
Do I agree with their all of their methods? No, but the message they broadcast has a certain resonance that I’m sure the power-brokers of the world detest and fear, and that, friends, is a good thing.
bleatmop
Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
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January 25, 2012 at 7:10 pm
bleatmop
Not really a fan of Anon. They make threats and the worst they can do is hack websites. Its all short to gain with long term pain. It’s because of groups like Anon that more draconian legislation will be lobbied for and implemented around the world. Some justify this by saying that things will get worse before they get better but I don’t see the end results happening. Unless an outright revolt in the first world happens, things will get worse and stay that way. People hate draconian legislation but are completely unwilling to give up our cushy lives here to fight it on the streets.
SOPA may be shelved, but it will be back. I suspect that it will be broken into 50 different bills and passed one by one and PIPA isn’t even dead yet, from what I understand. It’s a lot harder to get people upset enough to call/write/contact their elected representatives 50 times than it is one.
Anon would be much better served to actually find the information that can prove this corruption that they assert exists and release it to the public. Wikileaks did more in a month than they have. They may have fought on the side of the Egyptian people, but they were reduced to the role of foot-soldiers. And their other hacking actions have only scared the corporate interests to lobby governments with obscene amounts of money so that they can write the legislation needed to bring Anon down.
Some would say they do more harm than good.
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