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for the greater good of the people. There are three very strong reasons for endorsing my view. The first is Project Chanology; back in 2008 Tom Cruise publicly talked about the positives of the Scientology church. The church wanted to claim this video as theirs and have it taken down from websites. So Anonymous launched the project and posted a video talking about how it disrupted his free speech and also planned on “expelling the church from the internet” (Mercer, 2016). They posted more videos calling for protests and posted a craigslist ad called Why We Protest. The second reason is Hal Turner. Hal Turner is a radio host who is known for being a white supremacist/Neo-Nazi and his promotion of violence towards immigrants. Members named 4Chan started to mess with…

Not long ago it would have been unimaginable that a group of random people working remotely from anywhere in the world would be able to band together to electronically fight common enemies. However, recently a hacktivist group identifying as Anonymous has risen in power and size with the goal of fighting anyone they deem threatening to innocent people. Their operations and tactics range from gathering and leaking sensitive and/or restricted information from large corporations, to hacking…

Stefanie Sierra LCD 144W Bilingual Language Play used in Social media Introduction The topic of bilingual language play used in social media in particular Spanish. Especially when social media uses memes that are shared within a few minutes and are spread like wildfires. Social media has become a place in which the human population interacts by posting pictures and sharing their experiences and expressing their feelings. Memes are just way to show humor. As a bilingual speaker, in which…

that of 4chan. It is a site of dueling ideologies, behind its simplistic façade the many voices of humanity battle for superiority that form a disgusting yet uniquely human viewpoint of reality. Forming a harsh yet accepting community and influencing for better or for worse all aspects of everyday life that exist outside the points of the simple image posting website. In many aspects 4chan is the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end, it provokes the spread of new and radically ideas as…

Donald Trump fueled the alt-right, which is a mix of rightist online phenomena including everything from 4chan to neo-Nazi sites and stimulated the online culture wars (Nagle 11). The way in which Trump could put out many different tweets showed those on the extreme level that he did not have to say things in a certain way and many people agreed with the way in which he handled things. This was especially true with Roosh V, a pickup artist and neo-masculinist, who wrote a series of books in…

The website 4chan.org has had a rather grim reputation since its inception. The reason for this is users on the 4chan messageboards are granted total anonymity, not even having a recognizable profile or username, allowing them to say whatever they like usually without consequence, and posts only remain for a limited amount of time. It is important to note that 4chan users are not limited by national borders, and come from many developed nations. As a result it’s grown as a home for many online…

information should be free and accessible and that it is Anonymous’ right and responsibility to ensure that that freedom and accessibility is preserved by whatever means necessary. Those means can come by way of peaceful, lawful protest in person en mass. Those means can come by way of non-destructive harassment, through prank phone calls, sending faxes of black pages to organizations’ fax machines and other perfectly legal forms of influence. Those means can come by way of non-destructive but…

this, Poole would retrieve the HTML code that 2chan utilized and remodel it into an English version. This transformation would produce the discussion board, 4chan (Olson 43, 44). This new forum was a replica of the 2chan bulletin board. It allowed for a mass amount of people who did not understand Japanese to be able to communicate and voice their opinion on matters or convey their ingenuity. Any thread that was generated on the 4chan website was always given the suggestion to insert a name in…

night. But just like many events of history, Guy Fawkes and his mens failed attempt was almost forgotten. That is until the 1980's. The Guy Fawkes Mask was created in the 1980's when The comic books V for Vendetta were released in England. The mask was originally made to give out with a purchase of the comic book as a promotional tactic. Other than England, the Guy Fawkes mask didn't become a recognizable symbol until 2003 when it became an internet meme on the website 4chan. Unlike social…

attacks on the Church of Scientology, Westboro Baptist Church, and their affiliation with wikileaks. The attacks done by this group have been so widely recognized that they were even covered on multiple news outlets such as FOX and the BBC. Heralded as heroes by users of the image board 4chan and ridiculed as “an…