Posts for tag 'anonymous'

Anonymous, a loosely organized group of Internet hackers, have been initiating civil disobedience while maintaining anonymity since forming on the image board 4chan in 2003. Beginning in 2008 the group started taking on more collaborative, international hacktivism by initiating protests and other actions with the overarching goal of promoting Internet freedom and freedom of speech. In 2011, following several high profile attacks, the group was added to NATO’s list of enemies. Read more »

The infamous vigilante hacker group ‘Anonymous’ has become the modern-day Robin Hood of the Internet. Their way of ‘stealing from the rich’ however, is to shut down websites of anyone they see as enemies of their cause (i.e. enemies of freedom of speech and freedom of information). Read more »