As a gay man, if I had such a sex tape I'd probably have to burn my harddrive.

If she wants to perform in a minstrel show, it will be noticed and commented upon.

Which has finally culminated in an open attack on her private sexual life.

But the commentary on her minstrel show is spot on.

Which is an opinion and the kind of public shaming and attacks that ultimately spawned actions like this.

I don't like it.

But I would defend to the death her right to do it. Especially from thugs (like anonymous) who want to attack her private sex life.

Digging into her sex life is wrong.

But being loud and vocal about her public persona that she puts on for her shows ? Acceptable in the extreme.

In end, her privacy was violated and for that she'll probably come away with a great deal of free publicity (which I'm sure she would gladly trade for not being invaded in one of the most personal ways imaginable).

Nothing good came of this.

Her previous albums show that and her interviews where she speaks in an Australian accent show that it is a minstrel show.
Somebody would have dug up sex tapes no matter what. She's famous.

because you summed up the whole situation perfectly.

I've been trying to help these folks, lord knows! They just won't accept my wisdom.

How ya doing girl?

Thats gotta be worth like 20 DU points.

80 more and you can get a third way manny bobblehead.

Wait, does that mean she was on my side?

I retract my position forthwith.

I was feeling it.

And yes, she was on your side. I expect you to come crawling to my side soon enough. Everyone will. I'm illuminati.

A true expert of getting people to... ahem.. crawl to your side.

Oh my.

This thread turned out about 1000% more fun than I thought it would be.

Nice surprise I think.

She is CIA now, didn't you hear?

They suspend an account, but don't do anything to prevent the same people from just signing right back up.

Suspending the account by itself, doesn't do much. It takes seconds to start a new one.

and make more money because of these attacks and all the faux outrage. Until I read about her on DU a few days ago, I had never heard of her.

Any publicity is good publicity (well, usually), and Iggy has gotten a ton of it. I hope she cashes in.

And "hoping she cashes in" on it. The latter means you have definitively picked a side in this this little dust-up. Are you sure you want to go with that?

As far as what I have read about this ridiculous little feud here on DU, yeah, I would definitely take Iggy Azalea's side.

I'm sure I want to go with that.

The lifestyles of the d-list and vacuous

That is just so silly. There are probably thousands of Twitter accounts with the name Anonymous attached to it. Twitter suspended one asshole, not an entirely nebulous group.

The article's, not yours.

Azealia Banks has said to other people via Twitter, including "may you drown in faggotry", "I think white men all need to be locked away in a psych ward… Considering the atrocities committed by white men ON THE WORLD", and "someone should kick your ass, and punch you right in your stupid smiling cracker face."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azealia_Banks

Anonymous isn't exactly picking a winner here.

but it was the second time she used the term and it the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called her on it, so I figure people can read it as they choose to do.

I really don't see either woman as being thin-skinned and both seem fine with the attacks, and I suspect sales for both will rise over the controversy.

That's a word applied to gay men, not to gay women and her being a possible part time no labels lesbian does not give her any fucking standing at all to employ that sort of slur.

I like the response from Iggy Azalea:

Upon hearing of the interview, Iggy Azalea responded on Twitter. “You created your own unfortunate situation by being a bigot and don't have the mental capacity to realize yet,” she wrote. “Probably never will. Now! rant, Make it racial! make it political! Make it whatever but I guarantee it won't make you likable & THATS why ur crying on the radio. Enjoy continuing to bang your head against that metaphoric brick wall & Savor this attention. I'm the only way you get ANY.”

mouthed creep, but the other one I'd never really heard of. Is it too much to hope that they destroy each other and vanish in a giant cyclone of ego, affectation and prejudice?

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First, anyone here will tell you I'm a go-to-the wall feminista (re: Gamergate).

That said, I hope you listen when I say your approach is wrong.

Anonymous is not one group. It is many groups. Those groups often have different agendas. They in fact come in conflict with each other. Their twitter accounts get banned all the time in the course of their hacktivism and cyberwars. This is one of the basic cards that get played. They spawn new accounts constantly. The account you mention is not a main Anonymous account. In fact it's new to me - it could have been made just for the Iggy Azalea Op.

I haven't been following the issues around Iggy Azalea or why Anonymous chose her. However, I vaguely recall another DU post about Iggy appropriating moves from another black hiphop artist also named Azalea? When Anonymous choses someone, there is usually a political statement being made. That's why they glorify themselves as "hacktivists" rather than mere hackers. Some of them are women: if Iggy Azalea is being treated like a sex toy, they will intervene. They may have already if that Twitter account is suspended. I can't wait to get home and find out! (too difficult to track from my kindle here.)

My larger point is your post here just demonstrates your lack of understanding of Anonymous, and it will just give them cause to laugh at you. They might even link this post on Twitter to make fun of it. If I were you I would edit it to leave Anonymous out as much as pissible except to say one Anonymous account was suspended. That won't stop them from doing anything unless another segment of Anonymous intervenes, though. So I would also study the point they are trying to make and argue against their point. The fastest way to avert a problem from Anonymous is to hope some wil act on your behalf. If your cause furthers individual freedom (and that includes women), some will be listening.

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Releasing the Michael Brown police dispatch tapes, releasing the member list of the KKK, battling to save Tor...there are many groups doing different things. They value individual freedom, so they are unlikely to intervene if a member is being a jackass unless he or she is contravening their values. Their members chose to join each other's causes at will. They seem to compete to earn twitter followers.

By the way they also have a real world op to help homeless people. It's called #opsafewinter, and it seems like one of their most popular global endeavors.

My impression is their grandiosity is about gaining publicity for their central cause: the right to privacy and individual freedom. They are very clever with the use of symbols, catchphrases, consistent video styles, and other "brand building" techniques.

Anonymous is neither good nor evil. They have an agenda that may or may not work in your favor.

I attempted to use my pathetic kindle to find out what was going on witb Iggy Azalea. This seems to be off the radar for all the main Anon accounts I usually check. They seem to be focused on the remains of their Lizard Squad Op (protecting Tor) with some fringe Anons also trying to help restore Sony Playsration games from Lizard Squad attacks. This is good example of internal controversy: most think restoring the game servers is not part of their cause, and the majority are in favor of attacking Sony for lying about the North Korea hack.

Anyway the Iggy Azalea thing seems like a lone effort, but I'll be able to look into it more closely at home. I do remember seeing something about it in relation to #opsony. But that could have been an alert of a fake/ troll account, too. Anyone can make a twitter account and put Anon in their name.

The DeBlasio information is useful and will blow your mind though! You won't believe what racist jerks some of these cops are once they let loose on Internet forums!

for the things she says ?

neither Palin or Azalea should have been threatened .

One for choosing such a petty campaign, and two for threatening to shame someone with an alleged sex tape. Stupid stupid.

Anonymous is you and me. All the videos and twitter feeds need to be evaluated from the perspective that they are nobodies and represent no one.

The term anonymous comes from the forum 4chan where people post without having to set up a user account or be self identified. People are "anons", sometimes those anons come together and do things in concert, sometimes it could be anybody.

As such any claim to be an official account is full of BS. They may cover anon news or repost 4chan threads but there is no official rep or body.

That's why I was trying to explain the OP looks pretty silly no matter what feminist point is trying to be accomplished. I've never heard of that account, and I've been following Anonymous activities closely for days because of #OpSony and #OpLizardSquad. It needs to be rewritten with the emphasis on the points about Iggy Azalea rather than framing it as some takedown of Anonymous, which is...not.

and liked it.

She is not being targeted for being white. She is a bigot. Happy now?
http://touch.bossip.com/all/fancy-racist-a-gallery-of-iggy-azaleas-most-controversial-tweets#1