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[Julian DeMarchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au>]

On 02/16/2012 01:14 PM, Mike wrote:
> I think I'd think twice about hitching our wagon to Anonymous. I think
> we should milk the situation for all it's worth. But I, for one, would
> strongly urge against getting actually associated with Anonymous.
> 
> It is very easy to imagine that Anonymous is controlled opposition (i.e.
> it has been set up as a controlled bogey man) to 'menace' the Internet
> while appealing to the knee jerk reaction to stick it to the man. So
> after these attacks, the establishment can say 'look at what happened
> here, we need more control over the Internet so this does not happen
> again'. In other words, I think Anonymous is being used by the
> establishment to set up these 'false flag' attacks so people start
> begging for the governments to take more control over the Internet.
> 
> If what I've just outlined is true or not, the result will be the same,
> the establishment will use it as an excuse to crack down even harder.
> 
> I don't think what Anonymous is doing is a very good idea, and I really
> don't want to have anything to do with it, or be associated with it in
> any way.

Great points..

We've decided to do a reddit article instead. :-)

--julian