Your post is full of black and white without allowing for gray. Nations are immense behemoths erected by vast consensus and brutal manipulation. Anonymous are simply a bunch of people like us. They chose to be activists and saboteurs, and they've been effective. But if their immorality comes to blur and taint just social causes with casual hypocrisy and outright cruelty, then it isn't necessary to live with that as we do those dominating presences we call governments. If we have the power to change even those, if we can choose our leaders in any real sense, then we can easily choose which hackers, if any, deserve our support.
Servin is a hacker who has never gone after anyone out of cruelty. He's a prankster who has never used his powers of persuasion to cheat people out of money. Anonymous has a presence today, but if their actions ceased to fascinate people, they'd fall back into mere criminality and stop trying to impress us by occasionally handing out candy at virtual orphanages.
No one wants to point this out because the worst thing you can do on the internet is take yourself too seriously. But what is Anonymous doing if not taking its own whims more seriously than the people it ruins and, occasionally, helps to kill?
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I don't support Anonymous anymore than I support nuclear weapons. . . . Anonymous keeps the internet free and the people informed. I don't like the fact that some of them screw up people's lives with trolling and I don't like the fact that some governments justify torturing people. Anonymous is not the best or the worst thing in this world.
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RainingLemur: I agree.