Anonymous Hunts Hunter Moore

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14 points·gnarls_manson··3 comments

I find this amusing because I predicted that the whole address thing was just a publicity stunt:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4848528

This could be too. It sounds just a little too convenient for something to be getting this much media attention on its own.

I find it amusing that the likes of Anonymous are going on about protecting people from abuse and whatnot when they've done some pretty questionable things themselves, especially some of their 4Chan members who have victimised completely innocent people all because they either got annoyed by someone or just didn't like them. I'm not sure if it was Anonymous that was involved in the whole 2009 Boxxy scandal, but it wouldn't surprise me.

While I think Hunter Moore is a sick twisted dude, I hardly see what publishing an already public address achieves here.

There isn't really any irony there; it's a direct consequence of the nature of Anonymous.

It's a mistake to attribute any sort of persistent ideology or identity to Anonymous, because Anonymous isn't really a persistent movement or organization. It's really just a label that people often choose to adopt when rallying together anonymously over the Internet. There's absolutely nothing stopping people from using the label for whatever hacktivist cause they want to advance. . . but there's also absolutely nothing stopping people from using it for whatever immature or antisocial behavior they want to get involved in.

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