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Anonymous Organizes Global Protests For WikiLeaks

Posted by samzenpus on from the sun-it-burns-us dept.

pafein writes "Internet collective Anonymous launched a global protest for January 15 in support of beleaguered WikiLeaks. Anonymous has a history of defending Internet freedom, beginning with Project Chanology against the Church of Scientology. The group gained recent attention for itself with DDOS attacks on Mastercard, Visa, Paypal and the government of Tunisia."

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  1. Re:It's sad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I’m Canadian, so what happens in the US doesn’t directly effect me, however the shit that happens “down there” tends to roll back up here so this stuff tends to make me nervous.

    What really disturbs me is that I suspect all these "slippery slope" arguments are about to be put to the test. The recent twitter thing is just the start. All the privacy issues that paranoids have been spouting about for years are becoming a reality. Admittedly I’ve made several snide “oh get a life” type comments to the whole “the government will use your social network posts to identify you as counter to their views and have you dealt with” type mentality, but things really are approaching this.

    I just hope that enough people realize what this all means on the grand scale before it is too late.

  2. Re:Please don't. by sznupi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It would be even better if Wikipedia wasn't associated with this - its 10-year anniversary will be celebrated at the very same day

    Such coincidence seems like a purposeful effort at creating confusion...

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    One that hath name thou can not otter
  3. Why be anonymous? by Oxdeadface · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So when is wikileaks going to publish the identities, phone numbers, and home addresses of all the members of anonymous? There's no reason that any organization should keep anything secret after all. Right?