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comment by cgod
cgod  ·  3665 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Truth About Anonymous’s Activism

Ok, lets get to the "truth" about anonymous.

Anonymous is all the people who will gather under the flag of anonymous for a given cause and all those causes in aggregate. It's a flag of convenience. To define a truth about it is to deny the truth in it's very name. No one belongs to anonymous, it is nothing but a fiction for anyone who wishes to organize behind it's name.

If you are willing to include Lulzsec under the umbrella of anonymous (and why not really, pretty much the difference between Navy Seals and the Army) anonymous is also an arm of the CIA (through compromising Sabu).

The way people try and describe motivations or ethics to anonymous pretty much guarantees that they can't understand the nature of the beast.