Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. Members of Anonymous can be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta.
About Anonymous (group) in brief
Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. In its early form, the concept was adopted by a decentralized online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal and primarily focused on entertainment. In 2012, Time called Anonymous one of the \”100 most influential people\” in the world. Anons were early supporters of the global Occupy movement and the Arab Spring. Members of Anonymous can be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta. Some anons also opt to mask their voices through voice changers or text-to-speech programs. The group’s media profile diminished over the last few years, but the group re-emerged in 2020 to support the George Floyd protests. It is an Internet-based, non-extremist, socialist community movement that looks for answers to questions that are unanswered. The majority of their actions target governments, organizations, and corporations that they accuse of censorship. Dozens of people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyberattacks in countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, India, and Turkey. A frequent subject of disagreement within Anonymous is whether members should focus on pranking and entertainment or more serious activism.
A website associated with the group describes it as ‘an Internet gathering’ with ‘a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives’ and ‘Do as you wish.’ Anons have publicly supported WikiLeaks and the Occupy movement. Other groups LulzSec and Operation AntiSec carried out cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies, media, video game companies, military contractors, military personnel, and police officers, resulting in the attention of law enforcement to the groups’ activities. Some members of Anonymous use legal means such as DDoS attacks, while others employ illegal measures such as hacking and hacking. It’s a common phrase: ‘we are doing it for the lulz. … That’s more or less the point of it. Do as you want, Anonymous’ leader Parmy Olson writes. ‘Because Anonymous has no leadership, no action can be attributed to the membership as a whole. There was no single leader, but a few pooled organizational minds that sometimes start planning a stunt together. Some have criticized the group that presents the group as well-organized or homogeneous; others have described it as a ‘movement rather than a group’ It is a group of people on the Internet who need—just kind of an outlet to do as we wish, that we wouldn’t be able to do in regular society. It’s a very loose, decentralized group. It can be part of the state of the Internet, it is a crowd of people, it can be a part of a collective. It doesn’ t have to be a state,’’ Olson says.
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