How Anonymous got political -- New Internationalist

How Anonymous got political -- New Internationalist #gAtO ✅ #infosec #tor #security #cyberwar #btc #hacking #bitcoin

Anonymous got its start in the /b/ section of 4chan, known as the darkest well of internet depravity. /b/ is the ‘anything goes’ board – and anything really does go. For the people of /b/, (who called themselves the /b/tards) no space could really be free enough. They wanted to explore and indulge the dark places in the human psyche, but they also wanted to be with their own, to crack jokes, reference net memes, to find within the awful the kind of funny that made the whole world less serious. /b/ wasn’t just about offensive pictures you couldn’t unsee; it included threads such as pictures of men eating fruit salad alone, laughing. Look at enough stock photography of fake laughter and fruit and it starts to seem as perverted as things like incest porn. The /b/tards were offensive and ridiculous, but only to hold a mirror up to contemporary life. Anonymous was a breathing f...

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