This is the best article on Anonymous I have ever read. The best part about it is that it comes from a former douchebag who previously attacked Anonymous, but has taken the mantra of LURK MOAR to heart.
I’ve been researching this question, and I have come up with some very interesting answers. I even had the opportunity to exclusively interview some of the Anonymous members who will, of course, remain anonymous. For starters, Anonymous doesn’t appear to be a “what”. Rather, not a single “what”. The makeup is more a loose confederation than a group with a defined edge. The outline is fuzzy, as well as the purpose.
If you look through media reporting over the last year, you will no doubt come away with one of two definitions of Anonymous. Either you’ll think they are a left-wing protest group who engages in online activity, or you’ll think they are a fearsome group of hackers and cyber-bullies, who sometimes protest. Neither of these definitions is correct. In fact, in many ways, no definition is correct.
Read moar of Caleb Howe’s excellent article on AOL’s Political Machine here.
Tony Ortega has given us another enjoyable read into everyone’s favourite criminal cult. This time, it focuses on its latest (apparent) convert, Will Smith.
Besides talking pure nonsense to a bewildered Smiley for several minutes, Smith used a very strange phrase about halfway through the clip. He talked about “feeling like you’re at effect,” which means…well, frankly, this Hubbard jargon means anything you want it to mean, so what the hell.
“I’ve been giving him the benefit of the doubt,” [Mark] Bunker says about Smith. “But how do you absorb ‘being at effect’ without taking courses? I suppose it’s possible he picked it up from his equally certain, equally high-strung pal Tom Cruise. But it’s not an ordinary buzzword out here in the wog [non-Scientology] world.” To Bunker, the clip is evidence that Smith has been taking Scientology courses for some time, and has absorbed the Hubbard way of thinking.
Actor and Former Scientologist Jason Beghe had his German speech covered in the Village Voice.
Two weeks ago, Beghe gave similar warnings about Scientology to some German government officials in Hamburg, and videotapes of his presentation have been posted to the Internet in various places.
German officials are sensitive to the rise of tyrannical movements, for obvious reasons, so the German government has long been suspicious of Scientology and its notorious methods of coercion, which have been exposed in so many U.S. court cases going back decades. And since Germany and other European countries don’t share with the U.S. a squeamishness about all things religious, Scientology hasn’t been able to shield itself, as it has here, by claiming to be a “church” whose beliefs are off-limits to government scrutiny.
From September 13th’s protest against the criminal practices of the Church of Scientology, Ex CIA Access Agent Boris Korczak has a discussion with a Scientologist who identifies himself as Tommy. A four-parter.
Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology. Clips included footage of Australian and German news reports about Scientology, A Message to Anonymous/Scientology , and footage from a Clearwater City Commission meeting. Many accounts were suspended by YouTube in response to multiple allegations of copyright infringement.
Today Mark Bunker’s XenuTV Youtube account went down again, thanks to yet another false DCMA claim. This one was by the “American Rights Counsel LLC,” an organization that seems to exist only on YouTube.
XenuTV wasn’t the only victim of these false copyright claims. Many anons had their own home videos removed. Some videos not protected by the United States’ DCMA were removed. One of mine was removed. Read the rest of this entry »
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