Anonymous fighting PayPal, a Swiss Bank, Mastercard and others

Anonymous fighting PayPal, a Swiss Bank, Mastercard and others

Just so you're all aware, the uptick in guests here may become a spike due to these shenanigans:

4chan rushes to WikiLeaks' defense, forces Swiss banking site offline

4chan-based group ‘Anonymous’ targets PayPal to support WikiLeaks

I'm actually surprised by how accurate this article is

Project Chanology began after an internal Scientology video starring Tom Cruise was leaked to the internet by an unknown source. It was not exactly the most flattering of videos to the star, as his in-jokes about “SPs” (suppressive person) and KSW (keeping scientology working) helped hurry Cruise down the list of most sought after actors. Surprising no one, the Church of Scientology threatened legal action and claimed that the video was a violation of copyright before demanding that it be removed from YouTube. In response, Anonymous claimed that this was a form of Internet censorship, and began a series of distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, on Scientology websites, which entails several systems flooding the bandwidth of the targeted system. The group also began prank calls and faxing in black pages. Soon physical protests were held, with protesters wearing the same “Guy Fawkes” masks worn by the hero in the movie and comic book V for Vendetta, claiming that they wished to remain anonymous to avoid Scientology’s “fair game” policy — which claims that a group labeled as a critic of the Church may be targeted for harassment and punishment by any and all means possible. The protests spread around the globe and went on for over a year.

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Fix'd

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Yeah, that part annoyed me too. With the way the author seemed to be more on topic than the overwhelming majority of people who write about us, I took it almost as a sort of backhanded insult to Chanology. He'd have to be aware that these things are still ongoing if he's aware of all the other stuff....right?

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You use to be able to see the number of guests here, where is that? Did it move?

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lolwut

Currently Active Users: 752 (76 members and 676 guests)
ITT 3 members and 2 guests

Maybe you didn't load the page properly or something.

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I found the number at the bottom of the main forum page..... Something around 600 last time I saw it

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That's a fairly average number.

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It was close to a thousand users several hours ago.

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Wow is that a lot?

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No.

This was a lot:

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That was from Jett's death. And 500-700 is the typical average range around here. It only approaches a thousand when something big is going down where Anon gets mentioned.

Protip: if you call yourself Anonymous, expect to be associated with the other shit Anonymous is doing, and that includes Op Payback and the current goings on with wikileaks. Just to be clear to anyone way new or with a short term memory, it was wikileaks that hosted all the leaked sci shit when this all started. We do actually owe them one, or more than one for a lot of other semi-related and unrelated things.

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It would be far better if the Wikileaks Warriors got a new, separate and distinct name.

"Anonymous" is best kept as the anti-$cilon 'brand'.

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lol

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Jesus I can't even fucking tell if you're being serious. Are you being serious? You can't be serious. This has to be a troll post.

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please excuse my stupid little brother my mother made me bring him

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I agree completely.

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EFF: WikiLeaks has become the emblem for one of the most important battles for our rights that is likely to come along in our lifetimes. We cannot sit this one out.

Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Okaaay, you're not trolling. I'd like to preface this by saying that I believe people in marketing have a special circle of hell reserved for them. Now, since you're obviously not a *channer and probably also a complete idiot, let's look at what's wrong with this statement for the edification of the bandwaggoners and dimwits.

It would be far better if the Wikileaks Warriors got a new, separate and distinct name.
First off, if you're even semi-literate you'd notice how frequently journalists cite an anonymous source who was not authorized to speak or somesuch, which though unrelated is still pertinent to this. It is an extension of the entire culture among us. And they sure as FUCK do not need to create a second name. Neither you nor anyone else holds the copywrite on us, dickhead, and they are completely affiliated with us whether you like it or not.

"Anonymous" is best kept as the anti-$cilon 'brand'.
And this is what made me rage hard. It's not a fucking brand you corporate bootlicking little shit, and it's only anti-scifag because WE started this shit years ago. It is from *channer culture and you hopped onto OUR bandwagon. You are fucking subcomponent of Anonymous. The Iran protests, Chanology, Payback, Forcand, the hilarious "hackers on steroids" report Fox did as retaliation for a raid on their image directory (many shoops resulted and lulz were had), Habbo, Palin, Hal Turner, over 9000 penises...the list goes on and on, and those were us. It was never a specifically "anti-$cilon" thing, and it's not a 'brand' you pathetic sycophantic shits.

You want to know why that journalist probably said "lasted for a year"? Because dumb shits like you alienated the *channers who started this and then tried to claim some faggoty "anti-$cilon brand". Then most of us bailed on you dumb shits, and at this point I can guarantee you that they're not fucking coming back. But no, go ahead, be as much of a pitiful dumb shit as the scifags thinking you can accomplish shit with your 'brand' and bullshit stats. You're not fucking relevant to WWP any more than WWP is ultimately relevant to Anonymous. If you cannot understand this, well I'd tell you to gtfo but there's no hope and you won't ever get it. This is part of what made it fun to troll you idiots along with the scifags.

/rage

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Creeeeeeeeepy.

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Lol at anyone who thinks this is about rights.

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Cool & thanx!

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Fucking this. +1 Internets to you good sir.

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Rufus, normally you annoy me, but for that I really like you.

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trufax

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And you normally annoy me, but this actually made sense.

I'm glad we could share in this moment of mutually not annoying each-other.

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Agreed.

I like this article: 4chan-based group ‘Anonymous’ targets PayPal to support WikiLeaks

Anonymous spawned WWP and anti-scifag movement. The only connection WWP has with Anonymous is that while anyone here may be Anonymous they may not be involved in other Anonymous activities.

Anonymous could be like a city, lots of people, lots of different things going on, lots of different groups with no connection except that they're all in the city and some of the people in one group may also be in other groups.

You might as well call Anonymous "The Internet" as in The Internet has decided to attack Paypal, The Internet has decided to protest $cientology. etc. Anonymous is just cooler.

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lol his big speech on an anti-scilon website kinda neuters his arguement. At best I reckon he is trying to draw attention to wwp in the hopes of having it shut down by the anti-wikileaks police. Osa would love that.

/rage-squeak

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Thank you very much for this rant. Much appreciated.

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Only retards care about what OSA would love.

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just in on twitter: TANGO DOWN - mastercard.com - Restricting funds to Julian Assange and #Wikileaks. All countries should be down, too. #OperationPayback #DDoS

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BBC News - Mastercard 'hit by Anonymous Wikileaks revenge attacks'

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Fail.

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[unintentional derail]
Speaking of retarded ideas, people and names, anyone remember that troll calling himself/themselves "The Collective"? Made some moonbat vids on youtube a bit ago? What happened to them? I'd love to hear their opinion on what Anon is doing right now.
[/derail]

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The Wau Holland foundation, a german registered charity for information freedom, who was the actual owner of wikileaks paypal account and managed the paypal donations for wikileaks has announced that it will sue paypal for libel, because paypal called its activities "illegal" and is urging paypal to reinstate their account.
See their press release here: (translated via google)

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Datacell, the company handling WikiLeaks's credit card donations, has said that it will take legal action against Visa Europe and Mastercard:
BBC News - Wikileaks' IT firm says it will sue Visa and Mastercard

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Yes!
Fight back you glorious bastards. Good on you!

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Agreed. I hate marketing. However, it's what people react to irl, and the mask has come to be associated with anonymous. (with the exception of the people who drive by and yell V FOR VENDETTA) Like it or not, that's how society has reacted to the mask as a symbol of anonymous.

Completely. Because internet culture isn't bounded by lines drawn in dirt, or any one belief system, and is a cross section of society. /b/ is where I've gone for lulz for years, not hanging out or trying to fit in, but you know. Some of the funniest stuff I've ever read was on /b/.

I think most of you would have quit by now anyway. The early irl raids were huge and fun, but you know how they trickled away. Standing outside an org in lockdown is boring. That's a fact. And when anonymous first jumped in, speeches and such touched on the abuses, fraud etc. but not in depth. You start looking deep into this stuff, and it's not as funny as it was at first.

Then Rorschach's cat died, coincidentally not long after Chanology started. Other anons were subjected to legal shit, or threats. These srs bsns things made some people realize that this wasn't just a game. The Scilons are playing for real.

As far as "trolling you idiots," um. Chanology started as a troll, so yhbt as well. Other than that, nice rant. I always appreciate a good rant.

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This thread has awesome. Thank you.