Anonymous Must Be Stopped

The group known as Anonymous is inherently and harmfully hypocritical. They claim to believe in the freedom of information, yet guard any information surrounding their identities viciously--the relevant ones, anyway. The ring masters. I, for one, am not fooled by their seemingly well-meant intentions. Yes, the corrupt corporate kings need to be exposed and dethroned. But Anonymous, in their boundless vanity and self-worship, are taking every opportunity to make themselves the spectacle of their crusade; oh, how glorious we are. We are legion. We don't forgive. We don't forget. Everyone should be afraid of us. Cue the dramatic music. Alright, Mr. Demille. Anonymous is ready for their close up. And this is a sign of something bad. Very bad.

You see, Anonymous has already become the freedom-stifling entity that it wants to despise. They're paying out special favors for their hacker friends--illegally--and dragging innocent bystanders along with them. How would you like to play your PS3 online tonight? Sorry, Anonymous took the Playstation Network down again. And with the same dastardly, deceptive mindset equipped by V for Vendetta's government, Anonymous is telling us that they need to be in power--that we need to grant them power, because they've invented a problem, and they're the only ones who can save us.

Naturally, these pretentious pricks are using their perceived power in perverse ways. These brave knights of uncensored information have begun making threats to--can you guess?--censor viewpoints they disagree with. Like anti-Anonymous viewpoints. I quote here a comment from a member of Anonymous, left beneath this article in The Telegraph:

"Hmmm nice site you have there John Brown. Blogspot isn't the most secure platform though you realise? Good luck stopping us. You cannot stop an idea."

The comment was directed at the author of Anonymous Watch, an eloquent anti-Anonymous blog that inspired me to voice my own opinion.

Anonymous also makes threats against people they wish to coerce and use for their agenda, such as Playstation Lifestyle's Sebastian Moss. In Moss's own words:

After waking this morning, I checked Anonymous’ IRC, a secure chat system used by the group to co-ordinate their attacks, after scrolling down a few pages I noticed something – Anonymous were looking for me. User Takai stated on SonyRecon’s IRC “Find me Sebastian Moss… Wanna talk to him”.

Moss proceeded to observe the IRC conversation, during which Anonymous members attempted to dig up his private information. Moss submitted to their demands after they threatened to obtain his phone number--and who knows what sort of harassment would have occurred if he had not.

This Takai character obviously experiences a strong degree of entitlement and superiority; one can easily imagine him sashaying about, plucking his pinky from his mouth and commanding his followers, "Find him... I wish to speak to him now!" Is this the sort of person that can sincerely represent the idea of fairness and freedom? Of course not! He is, rather, the representation of an Orwellian nightmare materializing before us: All animals are equal, but Anonymous is more equal than others.

We need a hero, but Anonymous is not that hero. Anonymous is nothing but a fickle engine of emotionally-immature vengeance, whoring itself out to whomever pervades its ranks..