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Is Anonymous Going Mainstream Following Website Funding?
DavidGilbert99 writes "For a completely online movement, the lack of an official Anonymous website is certainly strange. The reason, according to Anonymous itself is down to the lack of a hierarchical structure. However, one Anonymous-linked group could be about to change all that, having succeeded in securing $55,000 in funding for a website. Is this the beginning of Anonymous going mainstream? From the article: 'The @YourAnonNews (YAN) Twitter account has over one million followers and has leveraged its popularity to successfully raise over $55,000 (£34,000) through a crowd-funding campaign on the Indiegogo website.
The funding drive was established to allow those behind the YAN account to set up a website of its own which will allow it "to collect breaking reports and blog postings from the best independent reporters online."'"
Ever think you're getting modded down because you're an asshole?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
Actually, calling themselves "Anonymous" and gathering funding now gives governments around the world - from Russia to Australia, from the US to Indonesia - the pretext to prosecute anybody posting anonymously online, as a conspirator and an accessory to... Well, darn near anything.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Perhaps your "freedom" is crumbling fast because you decided to treat it as a facade and leave it exposed to the elements that weathered it into it's crumbling status. I, however, chose to take my "freedom" and protect in a fortress that I like to call "the law". I have found this to be the best way to actually "preserve" my "freedom". If our freedom didn't need such protection, we would not have any need for the law in the first place.