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Alan Moore on V For Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous

Posted by samzenpus on from the verily-this-vichyssoise-of-verbiage-veers-most-verbose dept.

First time accepted submitter tmcb writes in with a piece by Alan Moore about the influence his comic has had on the hacker group Anonymous. "On Saturday protests are planned across the world against Acta — the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The treaty has become the focus of activists associated with the Anonymous hacking network because of concerns that it could undermine internet privacy and aid censorship. First published in 1982, the comic series V for Vendetta charted a masked vigilante's attempt to bring down a fascist British government and its complicit media. Many of the demonstrators are expected to wear masks based on the book's central character. Ahead of the protests, the BBC asked V for Vendetta's writer, Alan Moore, for his thoughts on how his creation had become an inspiration and identity to Anonymous."

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  1. What's the message here? by GMonkeyLouie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Moore sounds like he is satisfied with his contribution to the movement, but not as satisfied or validated with the achievements of modern radicals (yet).

    I love seeing symbols and characters borrowed from history and re-used, or re-purposed. It reassures me that our actions could potentially matter to future generations.

  2. Re:That was England... by Dasher42 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nah, the news would show some guy taking a dump on the flag, some smashed windows, not cover the rest of the story. The viewers would be telling the trigger-happy police "Atta boy!"

  3. Re:At Least... by Spykk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They chose continuing to live over making a pointless gesture? Pathetic.

  4. Re:That was England... by tqk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here in America, the police would just mow down the crowd with machine-gun fire and call it a day.

    There in the USA, the crowd would show up armed to the teeth, and the cops would be running for their lives if they weren't fragging their superiors.

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