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Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on Anonymous

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Post by Generic_Name »

Personally, I see them as a group who's main objectives are for the most part benificial to the world. Obviously since anyone can SAY they are part of Anonymous, some of the things 'promoted' by Anonymous aren't actually supported by a majority of the group, which i feel both the media and many people fail to realize.

From what I can see, Anonymous is mainly concerned with showing the public the problems with today's society. In my opinion, the methods might be slightly extreme but that's really the only way they are going to be able to inform the public of the issues that need to be addressed: through media attention.

I want to be clear however, this is just my opinion and I am in no way promoting or even associated with the group.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on Anonymous

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Post by dpearson »

Anonymous seems (to me) mainly to be attention-seekers. I'm not convinced that their DDOS attacks on various sites actually accomplish anything, other than to make the server admins' lives hell until the sites are back up. Further, there are legal avenues for the kinds of protest Anonymous claims to support.

This is just my two cents' worth, and more than likely isn't representative of the rest of HN.

Re: Ask HN: Thoughts on Anonymous

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Post by mohene1 »

dpearson wrote: post #3

Anonymous seems (to me) mainly to be attention-seekers. I'm not convinced that their DDOS attacks on various sites actually accomplish anything, other than to make the server admins' lives hell until the sites are back up. Further, there are legal avenues for the kinds of protest Anonymous claims to support. This is just my two cents' worth, and more than likely isn't representative of the rest of HN.

>I agree

I don't support Anonymous because I don't discount or disagree with concepts. I only discount implementations and Anonymous has no implementation to address the valid problems their enemies have solved in their own way.

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