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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you share something damning instead of referring people to search, as we probably will find different information. As far as I can tell, Epik focused on hosting and DNS management for marginalized/excluded groups on the internet, so naturally they attract a lot of groups. Not sure why that'd be bad though. Things like this also makes me actually like the company more: > Pharmaceutical watchdog website LegitScri…

Remember when a guy murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue? When it was revealed the shooter had posted about it on Gab beforehand, every service powering the social network pulled the plug. Epik was who brought them back online.[0] The hero of hate speech is not exactly a sterling reputation to have. [0] https://www.wired.com/story/how-right-wing-social-media-site...

I actually agree with the comment above: good speech doesn’t usually need defending…it’s almost always bad speech that does. But then again, I tend to side with free speech maximalists.

Rob Monster and crew are bad people because they actually believe this rhetoric, that’s why they defend it. They aren’t taking on a noble cause of defending free speech. They are defending speech with which they agree, and tends to be pretty shitty…that’s why they’re bad.

I don’t think they should be forced to stop, in fact I really hope the 1A is never diluted to that level. But the 1A cuts both ways: we get to sit back and talk about how awful Rob Monster is.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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post #143

One step closer to anarcho-tyranny. Anonymous has become the Antifa of the Internet. Basically a far-left strike force, cloaked but public, with enough plausible deniability that the 3 letter agencies allow to exist because they can do things beyond the law - as long as they dont go after the gov... One has to wonder why they are so focused on [Combating far right extremism and misinformation] when it's clearly desig…

Quite a LARP you have going on there.

Probably also anon, but more /pol/ of recent years.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#184

> Time to find out who in your family secretly ran an Ivermectin horse porn fetish site, disinfo publishing outfit, or yet another QAnon hellhole. > Decloak origin IPs of nazi websites for further investigation, poking, prodding! > Map out a decade of online fash with a level of clarity nobody has been able to UNTIL NOW! > Support your starving hacktivists, and they will bless you in turn. > So long, for now! Support…

Anonymous is a meme in itself. Claiming "these are not the real Anonymous" is playing into the meme.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#185

I love the old school memes (seven proxies, cowsay, nine thousand, the whole thing being a txt file.) Some early aughts charm right there.

Tells you something about the age of the hackers probably (over 30)

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#186

> OFFICIAL ANONYMOUS (not to be confused with 'Anonymous Official' grifters) I find it ironic that this is the first line of a “press release” from a group that was always defined by its nebulous nature.

Yeah. For a group claiming to be Anonymous, they care a whole fucking lot about 'lmao muh politics' rather than doing shit for the lulz.

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nor is it Epic! the digital reading platform for kids[1], not EPIC the Electronic Privacy Information Center[2], or EPIC Provisions the company behind high protein meat snacks[3]. [1] https://www.getepic.com/ [2] https://epic.org/ [3] https://epicprovisions.com/

Neither is it Epyx, Inc., the venerable videogame company [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyx

Epyx published Jumpman on the Commodore 64. Loved that game.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#188

> Time to find out who in your family secretly ran an Ivermectin horse porn fetish site, disinfo publishing outfit, or yet another QAnon hellhole. > Decloak origin IPs of nazi websites for further investigation, poking, prodding! > Map out a decade of online fash with a level of clarity nobody has been able to UNTIL NOW! > Support your starving hacktivists, and they will bless you in turn. > So long, for now! Support…

100% correct. This has been the case since sometime around Occupy Wall Street when various accounts related to Operation Clambake/Scientology anons were given away to a completely cringey set of pro-globalist ideologues who want to pretend they're the same group of people for the supposed clout. Anyone actually familiar just finds it embarrassing.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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post #143

One step closer to anarcho-tyranny. Anonymous has become the Antifa of the Internet. Basically a far-left strike force, cloaked but public, with enough plausible deniability that the 3 letter agencies allow to exist because they can do things beyond the law - as long as they dont go after the gov... One has to wonder why they are so focused on [Combating far right extremism and misinformation] when it's clearly desig…

Is being anti-fascist a bad thing now? Wasn't there a bloody war fought over that? I thought the default was to be against fascism? It's the kind of thing where you approve of it if you're not explicitly against it. Also, are you implying Epik is fascist? I mean you're not wrong.

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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>NOTORIOUS "HACKERS ON ESTRADIOL" PRESENT GRAND REVEAL I love how this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "hackers on steroids" piece from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

Surprised there’s no ascii art of programmer socks.
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