No, 4chan and Anon seek amusing chaos. Ascribing altruism to them is ludicrous.
I think you're not giving them enough credit. Behind the screens, many are still some intelligent people. They're not all just a bunch of anarchists who want to see the world order thrown into chaos. They know what stupidity is and punish heavily for it. They see what clearly isn't right and take action.
Sure, some of the antics they do may be juvenile and puerile, but when it comes down to the really serious stuff, they're not idiots.
"where everyone is involved in everything all the time, that as citizens we feel some right to interrupt those that the majority chose to lead us, and inflict upon them our minority views."
We DO have the right to be involved in everything all the time. That's the point of a democracy. You have every right to call up your local senator or congress representative or any elected official and tell them a piece of your mind. Just because the majority supported him at the time of election should not mean he has full power to do whatever he wants for the life of his term. He was elected to do what we expect him to do.
Yeah, those were my thoughts exactly. There's very little possibility that the DDOS on WikiLeaks was carried out by independent hacker groups. I mean, I don't see any motive for any hacker group to move against WikiLeaks, since it basically goes against their credo, and it simply doesn't hurt them.
I don't want to sound conspiracy theorist and all, but the only way I see it is that the government (USA or other) is using their own resources to try to squash WikiLeaks as much as possible. And that's a scary thought. We're seeing the very first battles in cyber warfare, but with the government on one side, and the people on the other.
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I think you're not giving them enough credit. Behind the screens, many are still some intelligent people. They're not all just a bunch of anarchists who want to see the world order thrown into chaos. They know what stupidity is and punish heavily for it. They see what clearly isn't right and take action.
Sure, some of the antics they do may be juvenile and puerile, but when it comes down to the really serious stuff, they're not idiots.
On the post: Operation Payback And Wikileaks Show The Battle Lines Are About Distributed & Open vs. Centralized & Closed
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We DO have the right to be involved in everything all the time. That's the point of a democracy. You have every right to call up your local senator or congress representative or any elected official and tell them a piece of your mind. Just because the majority supported him at the time of election should not mean he has full power to do whatever he wants for the life of his term. He was elected to do what we expect him to do.
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I don't want to sound conspiracy theorist and all, but the only way I see it is that the government (USA or other) is using their own resources to try to squash WikiLeaks as much as possible. And that's a scary thought. We're seeing the very first battles in cyber warfare, but with the government on one side, and the people on the other.
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