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Is Anonymous Going Mainstream Following Website Funding?

Posted by samzenpus on from the official-anonymity dept.

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."'"

14 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Way to miss the point YAN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The idea of an official Anonymous anything is absurd.

    And for an unofficial Anonymous site, there's 4chan.

  2. They already own a website... by mw13068 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... it just happens to have other people's content on it sometimes.

  3. FBI is first subscriber! by danbuter · · Score: 5, Funny

    The cybercrime division of the FBI is the very first subscriber, remarkably enough.

    1. Re:FBI is first subscriber! by fibonacci8 · · Score: 2

      As well as a large number of the members.

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  4. Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is probably the most stupid thing I've ever seen in my life. And I used to go to church...

  5. Re:Unwitting Accomplices? by phantomfive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you really think that posting anonymously online reaches the standard of 'probable cause,' or even 'reasonable suspicion'? Because that's what they're going to need if they're going to prosecute them (in the US, Australia might have different standards).

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  6. absurd! by drwho · · Score: 2

    An Anonymous website...the whole point is there can be no single website. This project is a bunch of posers, and it will be DoSed as soon as it goes up. In any case, 4chan is about as close to an Anonymous web site as is wanted, needed, or possible.

  7. This isn't just late, this is slowpoke meme status by B1oodAnge1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anonymous went mainstream circa 2007. Anyone thinking anything different has no understanding of what is actually going on.

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  8. Re:Unwitting Accomplices? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't need "probable cause" or even evidence, in "terrorism" cases, apparently.

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  9. Re:Unwitting Accomplices? by fustakrakich · · Score: 2

    Do you really think that posting anonymously online reaches the standard of 'probable cause,' or even 'reasonable suspicion'?

    Yes.. What makes you think that it doesn't? We now have, and probably always did have, a 'public safety exception' to all constitutional law. Our facade of 'freedom' is really quite flimsy and crumbling fast.

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  10. This may not end well by Peer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In a similar case somebody ran of with the server and donations:
    https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Why_We_Protest_Forums#11.2F29.2F08_The_Day_Enturb_Stood_Still

  11. Misdirection by sstamps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone who thinks that this represents or is backed by the core activists who are part of the collective is, well.. a fool parted with their money.

    It would paint a massive bulls-eye target on anyone associated with it, pretty much saying "here I am, come get me!".

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  12. Re:Cheese is the real victim here by TWiTfan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone on 4chan said it best: "Anyone claiming to represent anon is not anon."

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  13. Re:Cheese is the real victim here by Pseudonym · · Score: 2

    I believe you just posted the first comment ever which was ever voted to +5 insightful, whose only contribution to the discussion is a quote from "someone on 4chan".

    You win the Internet for today.

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