Operation Payback.

[mikelgb]

Discuss.

[Fla_Democrat]

1. Didn't like it when

my girlfriend did it to me.





:smoke:

[Robb]

2. Lacks the panache of Operation Titstorm.

[MineralMan]

3. I wonder if we'll like it when the right does a similar thing...

[EOTE]

4. Sure. When the right starts turning against corporations...

because of their attacks on a whistle blower, I'll like it very much.

[MineralMan]

7. You know very well that's not what I'm talking about.

[EOTE]

12. Ummm, I was responding to what you said.

If the right starts doing the same thing, I'd applaud them. If they start attacking corporations because they support gay marriage, then I certainly wouldn't support them. But then again, corporations trying to deny others rights is quite a bit different than corporations breaking the law because the government doesn't like someone.

[ipaint]

6. They've been doing it to the lower classes and poor non-digitally for thirty years.

With the help of the liberal class haves who compromised themselves into meaninglessness.

Now you are worried about what the right wing might do?

Day late and a dollar short.

[madmax]

10. We won't but, wars usually have 2 sides

[MineralMan]

11. They do, yes.

[Toucano]

5. I find it fascinating.

I've not been able to form a specific opinion about it.

I'm still gathering data, but it is very intriguing.

[TBF]

8. About time someone is fighting back. nt

[MineralMan]

9. Right-wing hackers also do something similar.

They're not as organized, nor as effective, but that could change any time. See the link below for accounts of their activities:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=right+wing+hackers

There's a problem, frankly, with organized hackers attacking websites. It can affect both sides of the spectrum.

[bemildred]

13. We live in a Hobbesian world.

That being so, it seems clear that we are badly led, our leaders are incompetent, and the legitimacy of government is in doubt. Whatever you think of anonymous, they are a fact, the cables leak is a fact, and our leaders failed to understand or govern at every step of the way to the current position, as they continue to do. They live in their own little self-confirming reality. If you are going to be "realistic", or whatever term you choose to describe being unprincipled in pursuit of expediency and profit, you have to be good at it.

The problem with groups like anonymous is that they are not located anywhere, they have no organization, no property, there are no handy targets, they are "emergent phenomena", and they don't care a fig what names they are called, they cannot be found, let alone threatened and intimidated. New barbarians if you like.