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I'm all for them and fully support their work

I support their cause, but dislike the methods used

Unsure / don't really care

I think they're just a bunch of bored kids

I'm against both their methods and cause

I think they're criminals / terrorists

Who?  (lol)

[lordcooper]

I'm just curious what my fellow denizens of Bay12 think of these guys.

[ein]

You left out the option for Anonymous being an idea, not an organisation.
There's no leadership and no official members.
It's a stand alone complex, nothing more.

[lordcooper]

You left out the option for Anonymous being an idea, not an organisation.
There's no leadership and no official members.
It's a stand alone complex, nothing more.

Indeed, this is true.
I intended to get a quick survey of peoples opinions on the acts attributed to Anonymous, not the philosophy itself.

[fqllve]

I'm just not really interested in their antics. Some of the causes they support are ones I support as well but I mostly just try to avoid information about them as much as possible. It seems to inevitably lead to some kind of shitstorm that I want no part in.

[Cthulhu]

I miss back when they trolled Habbo Hotel and did funny stuff instead of putting on Guy Fawkes masks and pretending to change the world.

[Aqizzar]

I miss back when they trolled Habbo Hotel and did funny stuff instead of putting on Guy Fawkes masks and pretending to change the world.

Yeah, but screwing with self-important Livejournal addicts and crazy DeviantArtists gets old after a while.  You can only troll so many mentally unstable teenagers into breaking the law.

Meanwhile, the moralfag hivemind picked a new target in Bank of America, but the world's kinda busy going to Hell in a handbasket, so they've been knocked clear off the news this time.

[Urist McDepravity]

This survey is incorrect, as there is nothing which can be said to be the Anonymous. You cannot take some /i/ or even anti-scientology actions and declare them as being attributed to Anonymous as whole.
There are at least million of those, who are parts of this beast, and we are very different in our opinions on _everything_. Even /i/ itself is very different, some consider 'lulz' to be top priority and conduct raids on epilepsy patients (http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy), some ('moralfags') consider such actions 'unethical' and conduct politically-motivated raids/protests.
Only things you can safely assume to be widely supported among us are anti-copyright and Internet freedom, and even then there are some who are pro-copyright or support internet regulations.

[Cheeetar]

There are at least million of those, who are parts of this beast

That's a pretty exaggerative claim.

[Knight of Fools]

People seem to have fallen in love with the romantic side of Anonymous (Mysterious Hackers!), but beyond that I don't see anything other than more people doing things that other people do (Expressing their opinions).  As mentioned above, they seem to have gotten the idea into their heads that they're somehow a major part of the scheme of things, but I really don't see anything that they've done to move that along, other than having a unique method of letting the world know what they think - In a form that sometimes breaks the law, which puts a bad mark against them in my book.  You don't put your point across by sabotaging someone else's point, you get it across by having a better point.

I respect their ideas and ability, but I honestly don't care too much.

[Megaman]

Anonymous? AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HOHOHOOAHOAHOAOHOAHOOAHOHOOHOOASHOAOHOAHOHAHAHOAHoAOHOA
HOHOOGHOAHOAHOAHOAOHAOHOAHOOHOAHOAHOAOHAOHA
The net's longest running joke if you ask me.

[Aklyon]

What kind of laugh is that? you had a G in it.

[Pnx]

I often hear anonymous described as an idea, it's generally more accurate to call it a movement, but that tends to romanticize it too much for most people's tastes.
Personally I like to compare it to communism.

For example take a look at Karl Marx and his works, and the roots it had in russia, and there were a lot of good ideas and foundations in the communist movement that were worthy of support..
Then it got waaaay off track and started being used to do dumb shit.

[breadbocks]

I'm all for them, and would gladly join them if I knew the IRC channel. :X

[Aklyon]

I doubt its that hard to find, bread. search for 'anon irc channel' or something.

[breadbocks]

Aklyon, I'm sure it's not that simple. There are probably a few more writes of passage than one goggle search.