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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.co.uk>]

If Anonymous has been/is being hijacked by the establishment, then wouldn't 
it follow that 31/03/2012 will see the root servers go down and/or something 
else that would help Op' Global Blackout succeeded?

Peter

Wanged from my Kaiser by a mischievous pixie!

Mike <mike AT pikeaero.com> 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.
>
>--Mike
>
>On 02/15/2012 09:16 PM, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
>> 
>> How do you make contact with Anonymous? They'd appeal to our cause...
>> 
>> --julian
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