Anonymous Pros And Cons

Anonymous is a group of hacktivists that wanted to expose corrupt companies and businesses while starting mass awareness and staying unknown. It started out as joke on 4chan, an imageboard website in 2003. They went by the motto “none of us are as cruel as all of us.” Anonymous doesn't have a form of organization or logistics but the way an operation is started is by a member talking to other members about an idea. If they think is a good idea, they will support it. If not supported, the idea will be dropped since they have no one person to be "end all be all." Anon started their first operation called "Habbo". This started because a child in Alabama was denied access to an amusement park pool because of having AIDS. They then went on a site called Habbo (which was a virtual hotel) and dressed an avatar as black men with an afro …show more content…
On February 16, 2011, Anon had written a letter to the Westboro Baptist Church, saying: "Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011. . . close your public Web sites. Should you ignore this warning. . . the propaganda & detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither our institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover." The Church responded by accepting the challenge telling Anonymous to "bring it on" and further called them "a puddle of pimple-faced nerds" Anonymous then said they didn't send that message but one of the Church's members who sent that to start something with them. Anonymous said, "When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it. We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." This ended in a court dispute against the Internet service providers and gained, even more, publicity but this operation was later called