Anonymous & the Pirate Bay get involved

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

src (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/iran-activists-get-assist-from-anonymous-pirate-bay/)


Iranian democracy activists, meet your new pals: a masked protest movement best known for needling the Church of Scientology, and a group of file-sharers so infamous they’re facing a year in jail.
Anonymous Iran (http://iran.whyweprotest.net/) is a collaboration between The Pirate Bay — operators of the world’s largest torrent site, convicted in April of copyright infringement — and Anonymous, the prankster collective dedicated to exposing “Scientology’s crimes.”
The new site offers tips on how to navigate online in private, upload files through the Iranian firewall, find the best activist Tweeters, and launch attacks on pro-government websites.
This week, The Pirate Bay launched its virtual private network service that promises to mask users’ indentities online. Over 180,000 people have already signed up. Earlier this month, Sweden’s Pirate Party won a seat in the European Union Parliament, after outrage about the file-sharers conviction erupted.

[Pogue]

cool

[RHIZOMES]

Wow Anonymous are actually doing something productive with their time.

[which doctor]

I don't think it's accurate to define Anonymous (/b/) as a collective dedicated to exposing scientology's crimes, but this is interesting nonetheless. I've spent some time browsing /b/, more out of curiosity and fascination than anything, and ignoring 95% of the content, what you find is really intriguing. I think it would make good material for a budding postmodernist english student's PhD thesis.

[Honggweilo]

they (small group of /b/tatds) also tried to raid the "great chinese firewall" , and failed XD. Anonymous is a very deverse group of people with too much free time on their hand, and the only thing uniting them is their militant atheism, black-humor, and probably pedofilism :p .

Anyway, i think the Pirate Party is a great iniative, too bad they are aligning themselves to the European liberal and green factions in the EU parlement instead of remaining independent.

All a bit offtopic, but good job on the Iranian support network. Now lets just hope they arent hijacked by US pro-imperialist bullshitmachine.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Anyway, i think the Pirate Party is a great iniative, too bad they are aligning themselves to the European liberal and green factions in the EU parlement instead of remaining independent.

If they're a member of a grouping, they're entitled to something an extra million pounds a year of funding. Something the BNP is missing out on because the other euro-fascists are reluctant to sit with them...

I'm not exhonerating the liberals, just it makes sense so TPB can continue to grow.

[Robespierre2.0]

I thought /b/tards were supposed to be trolls, purposefully taking the unpopular side of every issue in order to rile people up- I'd have expected them to take the side of the Islamic Republic.

[Z.Hume]

That may be too much fun to pass up, I'm going to have to check this out.

[Honggweilo]

I thought /b/tards were supposed to be trolls, purposefully taking the unpopular side of every issue in order to rile people up- I'd have expected them to take the side of the Islamic Republic.

The moralfags are the cancer thats killing /b/

[StalinFanboy]

The moralfags are the cancer thats killing /b/
Even as a joke, not cool.

[Yazman]

Look at all these dumbass ____chan fuckers. They love to parade around on the internet but IRL they fucking fail, really hard.

[Sean]

Even as a joke, not cool.
+fag is a suffix used by /b/ to just about everying, there are newfags, oldfags, christfags, scifags, moralfags, hatefags, furfags, gaiafags and normalfags, DC isn't making an attack, that's simply quoting their own terminology.

There is a difference between /b/tards (regular anonymous 4chan users) and chanologists. The ones running around in V masks are called chanologists and aren't really that connected with the main /b/tards, which is why there aren't many child pornography or racist slogans being waved around. For some reason, the people who get a lot of column inches want to distance themselves from their origins in a snakepit like 4chan's /b/.

This image of Chanologists in New Zealand never fails to crack me up, especially the guy on the right, aka New Zealand Fail Guy:


http://i41.tinypic.com/280qh3a.jpg

[redSHARP]

they (small group of /b/tatds) also tried to raid the "great chinese firewall" , and failed XD. Anonymous is a very deverse group of people with too much free time on their hand, and the only thing uniting them is their militant atheism, black-humor, and probably pedofilism :p .


no.....:blushing:

besides that is anontalk who are the pedophiles, /b/ exposes them.

/b/ is not political, though people have been supportive of the Iranians in general. a lot of anons have taken the time through other websites to help people in Iran get the word out. /b/ had a thread full of videos from the uprising posted by people all over.

[Honggweilo]

http://trollcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/iran_elections_troll_trollcat.jpg

i lol'd

[Agrippa]

Believe in or not, US law enforcement is actually really paranoid about 4chan. The Virginia State Police's most recent report lists "Anonymous" among other serious domestic terrorist threats such as Islamists and Nazis. (They actually list Anonymous in the "anarchists" section along-side more serious Leftist groups such as the New African Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter and the defunct Virginia Anarchist Federation) I remember hearing about another police report that was really concerned about radical Leftist "lone wolf" hackers.

I agree that "Anonymous" is mostly an apolitical, amoral phenomenon. It could arguably be described as a pseudo-fascist phenomenon, although I think it has more in common with football riots. Like football riots, Anonymous is a spontaneous act of disruption engaged in as sort of a mass-psychological phenomenon rooted as much in boredom as aimless aggression and misplaced anger.

"Anonymous" is not a homogenous group of people. "Anonymous" is a leaderless organization like the ELF, Anti-Fascist Action, or numerous underground right-wing anti-abortion groups. As a consequence, I think "Anonymous" actually has much more stability and resilience as a group that's borderline-illegal, than, lets say, significantly more bureaucratically organized Leftist groups such as the ISO, PSL, and NEFAC.

We have a lot to learn fron "Anonymous", especially in regards to using the Internet as an effective weapon. During the anti-Scientology craze, a pacifist self-proclaimed leadership tried to reign in the grass-roots of the movement, which was more prone toward wanting to vanalize and call bomb threats in to Scientologist churches than write their congressman or engage in pointless public anti-Scientology demonstrations.

I think "Anonymous" could be a movement we could co-opt if we were more together. Part of "Anonymous'" problem is the inherent sleaziness of 4chan culture. I'm not one of those people who is shocked and offended by politically incorrect slang like "newfag", but basically the whole culture of 4chan is centered around Internet pornography, video games, and racist jokes. You need a more substantial cultural foundation to create any worthwhile social project

[Dimentio]

I think "Anonymous" could be a movement we could co-opt if we were more together. Part of "Anonymous'" problem is the inherent sleaziness of 4chan culture. I'm not one of those people who is shocked and offended by politically incorrect slang like "newfag", but basically the whole culture of 4chan is centered around Internet pornography, video games, and racist jokes. You need a more substantial cultural foundation to create any worthwhile social project

There have existed entire civilisations built on such values as espoused in 4Chan. The culture in itself is just a development of western civilisation.

At the end, not even money matters, but just sensations, scandals and extravaganza. If it continues as today, I guess people in 50 years would probably laugh on the street if someone gets driven over by a car.

[which doctor]

There have existed entire civilisations built on such values as espoused in 4Chan.
Could you enlighten us as to exactly which civilizations were built on 4chan's values?

[Dimentio]

Could you enlighten us as to exactly which civilizations were built on 4chan's values?

I would say that ancient Romans would probably have found rape scenes, violence and gore quite much of an entertainment.

[Sean]

I would say that ancient Romans would probably have found rape scenes, violence and gore quite much of an entertainment.Stop creaming over Romans, Caligula. I swear, that boy ain't right.

[deLarge]

There is a difference between /b/tards (regular anonymous 4chan users) and chanologists. The ones running around in V masks are called chanologists and aren't really that connected with the main /b/tards, which is why there aren't many child pornography or racist slogans being waved around. For some reason, the people who get a lot of column inches want to distance themselves from their origins in a snakepit like 4chan's /b/.

4chan isn't the only place with a /b/ board, you know this right? Actually, a lot of the more infamous raids didn't even take place on 4chan's /b/, they took place on /i/nvasion boards on other, smaller boards, and on a couple of hierarchical pseudo-meritocratic irc channels (optimize that shit), where the users would formulate the attack plan, get or write programs, make propaganda, and then get backup on 4chan if needed (though this is often avoided, since 4chan's /b/ tends to be watered down and mucks stuff up). The Hal Turner Raids, the raid on the epilepsy forum, the initial chanology raids, the raids on myspace, etc, were all done primarily on /i/ and #i******* (censored) on the smaller chans. The bulk of the initial (and more long-term) planning for Chanology was done on IRC channels, not on 4chan, for that matter.