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Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

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Re: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

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Post by scarmig »

jauer wrote: post #6
scarmig wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to throw some paranoia on the paranoia, maybe the vaccine link shown is part of a government plot to discredit Anonymous.

Because somewhere in a Anon marketing meeting the DoJ plant pipes up and says "hey, we should put something about how vaccines are a tool of the 1%", and everyone else thinks it is a good enough idea to include it?

Dude.

The question isn't whether it seems implausible.

The question is whether you have any evidence that that's not what's going on. Because otherwise that's obviously just what the government wants you to think.

Re: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

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Post by sp332 »

jauer wrote: post #6
scarmig wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to throw some paranoia on the paranoia, maybe the vaccine link shown is part of a government plot to discredit Anonymous.

Because somewhere in a Anon marketing meeting the DoJ plant pipes up and says "hey, we should put something about how vaccines are a tool of the 1%", and everyone else thinks it is a good enough idea to include it?

More like some Homeland Security squad is making and posting dumb videos and claiming that they're "Anonymous". This in order to make people think that Anonymous posts dumb videos.

Re: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

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Post by jonursenbach »

scarmig wrote: post #11
jauer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because somewhere in a Anon marketing meeting the DoJ plant pipes up and says "hey, we should put something about how vaccines are a tool of the 1%", and everyone else thinks it is a good enough idea to include it?

Dude. The question isn't whether it seems implausible. The question is whether you have any evidence that that's not what's going on. Because otherwise that's obviously just what the government wants you to think.

What you're doing is the same type of "reporting" that Fox News does.

"Since there's no evidence against my theory, you can't not not prove that it exists."

Re: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

#15

Post by scarmig »

jonursenbach wrote: post #14
scarmig wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude. The question isn't whether it seems implausible. The question is whether you have any evidence that that's not what's going on. Because otherwise that's obviously just what the government wants you to think.

What you're doing is the same type of "reporting" that Fox News does. "Since there's no evidence against my theory, you can't not not prove that it exists."

My earlier comment should be read as firmly tongue-in-cheek--like, puncturing the cheek--if people thinking it's serious is what's picking up the downvotes.

Re: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

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Post by patdennis »

Well that's nice. I'm glad they stand for freedom of information. There's nothing here I couldn't have gotten with a simple Freedom of Information Act request. But I guess sending them a letter requesting the information isn't dramatic enough for Anon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(Uni...

Re: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

#17

Post by beedogs »

sp332 wrote: post #12
jauer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because somewhere in a Anon marketing meeting the DoJ plant pipes up and says "hey, we should put something about how vaccines are a tool of the 1%", and everyone else thinks it is a good enough idea to include it?

More like some Homeland Security squad is making and posting dumb videos and claiming that they're "Anonymous". This in order to make people think that Anonymous posts dumb videos.

It wouldn't be unprecedented. Most of the Bin Laden videos were phony.

Re: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

#18

Post by dkokelley »

farnsworth wrote: post #4

Halfway through that incredibly overdramatic video, it shows chains around the globe, with each link labeled something like "Police State" ... "Military/Industrial Complex" ... etc. Then there is one labelled "Vaccines". Has anyone, acting as Anonymous, ever taken an anti-Vac stance? I would have expected Anon to be on the scientific side of that issue.

I have no knowledge of Anon being anti-vaccine. If I were to formulate a hypothesis, I would imagine that they view 'vaccines' as synonymous with big health. So, "the big healthcare mafia is selling us 99-percenters vaccines at a huge markup, profiteering from their proprietary knowledge, state-protected monopoly, and our dependency."

Then again, Anonymous doesn't exactly have a unified message. It's possible that the individual creator of this video has their own conspiracy theories about vaccinations.

Re: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice

#19

Post by twelvechairs »

scarmig wrote: post #15
jonursenbach wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you're doing is the same type of "reporting" that Fox News does. "Since there's no evidence against my theory, you can't not not prove that it exists."

My earlier comment should be read as firmly tongue-in-cheek--like, puncturing the cheek--if people thinking it's serious is what's picking up the downvotes.

I downvoted it because it didn't really contribute anything to the topic, not that I didn't see the humour (something along the lines of that old HN/reddit chestnut). Just to let you know.
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