Anons began collecting much more information on people like overall Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer and his family, with one complaining, "No one found ANY info on Stringers kids?" But they did eventually find information on Stringer, including his height, his addresses, his old fraternity, his corporate security officer, the dates he adopted his son and then his daughter, the schools he attended, his brother's name and year of birth, and the names of his parents.Now, wait a minute. Isn't this the same Anonymous that was outraged over Sony obtaining people's IP addresses in relation to the Geohot trial? And we were supposed to beg for Anonymous to save us because Sony was invading our privacy?
You may have noticed in the paragraph quoted above (from the Ars Technica article), that Anonymous put a special emphasis on retrieving information about the children:
"No one found ANY info on Stringers kids?"If that isn't disturbing, it certainly leads to the question of why Anonymous has made children such a high priority target in their crusade. For that answer, we need only venture back to the year 2009.
In 2009, Anonymous had already begun targeting children with organized efforts, which received worldwide publicity. And what was the goal of these noble and virtuous self-proclaimed internet-superheroes? To trick children into viewing pornography:
Video-sharing website YouTube has removed hundreds of pornographic videos which were uploaded in what is believed to be a planned attack.
The material was uploaded under names of famous teenage celebrities such as Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers
The reason given for this attack was simply that YouTube had been deleting music. And this was strikingly familiar: Anonymous had been denied something they wanted, and no matter how trivial the issue, it became their justification to abuse others--including children.
Many started with footage of children's videos before groups of adults performing graphic sex acts appeared on screen.
We can easily connect their behavior in 2009 to the present situation, establishing a reliable pattern. Their feud against Sony, which began with the removal of Linux on the PS3, has predictably inspired Anonymous to step beyond their previous boundaries with children and actually begin establishing the framework for kidnappings.
One might argue that Anonymous is too cowardly to actually follow through with such plans, but let's not forget that Anonymous--by their own definition--can be anyone and everyone. And maybe Anonymous releases some dox ("documents"; a collection of personal information) to the public, which includes everything a pedophile, rapist or killer needs to know to locate a child, and something terrible happens. This is the exactly the situation that Anonymous has made possible.
And this is why Anonymous must be stopped.
