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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

#21

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...

maybe the data came from a reply?

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

#22

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...

I'm not convinced you can get a TB of internal emails via a simple FOIA request.

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

#24

I don't understand why commenters here speak of a "they". There is no "they" and Anonymous is not a group. It's a label that anyone can put on themselves. They may as well call themselves "freedom fighters" (lowercase).

It's frustrating how many people do not get this.

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

#25

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 t…

There's another one that says "big pharma" so I doubt that's what's being referred to as "vaccines"

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

#26

I don't understand why commenters here speak of a "they". There is no "they" and Anonymous is not a group. It's a label that anyone can put on themselves. They may as well call themselves "freedom fighters" (lowercase).

I mentally replace Anonymous with "protester(s)" making this headline something like "Protesters release 1.7 GB of data" which makes more sense.

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

#27

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 t…

The funny part about your comment is that vaccines are one of the least profitable things pharma sells.

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

#28
post #22

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...

I'm not convinced you can get a TB of internal emails via a simple FOIA request.

a TB != 1.7GB

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

#30

I don't understand why commenters here speak of a "they". There is no "they" and Anonymous is not a group. It's a label that anyone can put on themselves. They may as well call themselves "freedom fighters" (lowercase).

A better way of putting it is that "The only reason the A in Anonymous is capitalized is because of 4chan tradition." It's not a proper noun.
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