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Caliman73

(11,744 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 04:57 PM Jul 2019

Okay odd question here: Whatever happened to Anonymous?

Remember them? The loose knit hacker group that went after governments and businesses that were attacking privacy, speech, and other things. I have not heard very much about Anonymous at all since the 2016 elections. I would imagine they would be trying to get information to damage Trump and his cronies just for their blatant corruption and attempts at suppressing speech and the press but I haven't heard a peep. I just find it odd.

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Okay odd question here: Whatever happened to Anonymous? (Original Post) Caliman73 Jul 2019 OP
See... PoliticAverse Jul 2019 #1
Interesting Caliman73 Jul 2019 #3
Anonymous was never a real group. Cattledog Jul 2019 #2
I'm still here. The rest were pretenders. hunter Jul 2019 #4
Ha! Caliman73 Jul 2019 #5
Well, please get busy! tosh Jul 2019 #11
they got jobs and moved outta moms basement.. 912gdm Jul 2019 #6
I was living away in a parental grand-parental basement in my earliest twenties... hunter Jul 2019 #7
I didn't say what they did was half kidding/half serious. 912gdm Jul 2019 #12
Interesting. H2O Man Jul 2019 #8
They were coopted by Russian trolls who infiltrated and took over blm Jul 2019 #9
This.. HipChick Jul 2019 #10

Caliman73

(11,744 posts)
3. Interesting
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 05:07 PM
Jul 2019

I guess it makes sense with such a loose affiliation that there would be splits along ideological lines. I remember that they had come out against Trump, but as the article said, they just disappeared.

hunter

(38,326 posts)
7. I was living away in a parental grand-parental basement in my earliest twenties...
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 05:40 PM
Jul 2019

... yet I will never say it was "half kidding / half serious."

I do know I hurt some people, friends and family and random acquaintances, really bad.



912gdm

(959 posts)
12. I didn't say what they did was half kidding/half serious.
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 06:51 PM
Jul 2019

I was referring to why you don't hear much about them anymore. I guess that wasn't clear

H2O Man

(73,599 posts)
8. Interesting.
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 05:43 PM
Jul 2019

I believe that the people who started it (with one older fellow playing point) were intent upon injecting confusion into the rabid republican ranks before the 2018 elections. By that date, it had taken off, with a variety of fools from the alt-right trying to take it over. Mission accomplished. They are bat-shit crazy.

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