before Anonymous will be named one of the most influential people in the world
by Time magazine in 2012 before Anonymous would declare war on Donald
Trump with operation Trump before anonymous would re-emerge in the wake of
violent protests over the death of George Floyd due to police brutality
promising to expose the many crimes that the Minneapolis Police Force to the
world officers who kill people and commit other crimes need to be held
accountable just like the rest of us otherwise they will believe that they
have a license to do whatever they want you will claim that this is just the
work of a few bad apples of one of the officers who stand by and do nothing
while they commit offenses against the people they encounter and the police
departments like yours who refused to prosecute these criminals as they would
one of the citizens that they are sworn to protect now first off I'm a little
nervous making this video now if my channel goes black out kind of like what
we did on Tuesday for black out Tuesday but instead of because it's a fundraiser
and likely because I pissed off the wrong people well I'm gonna tread
lightly now for an unidentified group while the hacktivist collective known as
anonymous well they've made the news a mind-boggling amount of time since its
inception no anonymous they announced their intentions to the world with the
following motto we are anonymous we are legion we do not forgive we do not
forget expect us now they've been involved in protests from Occupy Wall
Street to the shooting of Michael Brown and while anonymous was initially
dragged through the coals by the media well the group's reputation has shifted
over the years New York University professor and anonymous researcher bila
Coleman well she compares anonymous to the trickster God archetype were talking
Loki for Marvel explained that the trickster isn't the good guy or the bad
guy but the character that expresses those contradictions and this shades
changes and moves the plot forward now this tradit is often reflected in the
conversation around Anonymous which alternates between praise and fear with
most media outlets being at a loss for how to describe them like Alan Moore's
character of V who inspired anonymous to dawn the face of Guy Fawkes as an icon
well we're never quite sure if they're the hero or the antihero a trickster God
is attracted to change but there aren't anyone's own
Villar me that's rule number 48 yeah there are rules a whole bunch of them so
how exactly did Anonymous start and where do they come from well that's what
we're here today to find out what's going on guys it's boy Michael cretin
back in again with a brand-new before their famous video this one on the
hacktivist group known as anonymous now with all the tragedy unfolding over the
past couple of weeks well I thought now would be a good time to take a closer
look at one of the group actively fighting for change now people have all
kinds of mixed emotions about this group and to be honest well their very nature
makes their true intentions hard to pin down but by exploring their past well
hopefully we can find a better idea about what they're looking to accomplish
today now don't forget to let me know who you guys want me to document next in
the comments down below and remember during times like these well let's be as
considerate as possible for one another all right now let's get into this video
hey be sure to subscribe and hit that Bell boom since we're getting historical
here will will have to start with 4chan org an extremely popular internet chat
board where people go to share images and talk about them in particular we
need to talk about what a 4chan sub boards don't simply as be forward slash
now this is the extremely not-safe-for-work forum where users go
to post content completely anonymously with no digital archives and an
anything-goes type of vibe in terms of content know the name anonymous it was
inspired by the perceived anonymity in point of fact will /b forward slash is
basically the end of the internet the collective unconscious of which depths
are base drives a rise often in the form of today's universal language the mean
that's right there is little sophistication on these boards and slurs
involving sexuality and race they are almost always on display this is the
purposeful choice used to keep the majority of us out the trill is used as
a warning sign alerting anyone on their forum to know that the deeper you go
down this rabbit hole the worse it gets at some specific moment lost in its
unrecorded history will /b /n well they spilled the Internet's in on
to the rest of the net with what they called ultra coordinated motherfuckers
in other words the use of technological tools of social coordination to
collectively attack targets for any perceived slight now these came to be
known as raids and over time these raids they took on new forms eventually moving
out of the digital world and into our real one with protests and massively
coordinated pranks and DDoS attacks now or during unpaid pizzas and subscribing
people to embarrassing junk mail chains became the new norm
donate pepperonis for Connor 22 pizzas for Sean where are you did burning
pepperonis for Connor daxing - especially if you were someone who ever
abused a cat because anonymous much like the most of the internet oh they love
cats their initial attacks like on kids games have a hotel while they were never
particularly focused but they made it clear very early on that they would
target what they perceived to be social of Justices no raids they could be funny
or they could be devastating but either way well they were gone almost as soon
as they arrived the Internet's own form of natural disaster now what I'm trying
to say is that they were never staying on one topic for very long until Tom
Cruise in the Church of Scientology
Anonymous his first real cosmic headlines was their 2008 raid called
project chanology and it began with a recruitment video
featuring Tom Cruise being a Scientologist when you drive past an
accident it's not like anyone else as your drive past you know you have to do
something about it because you know you're the only one they can really help
know after the church decided the video ultimately painted them in a bad light
well they removed it from the internet but anonymous they had different ideas
that was fastest Scientology could take down the video
well anonymous would find a way to put it back up Scientology offices they
found themselves flooded with black faxes unordered pizzas and prank calls
after break-ins they never ended uh after about a week in this with the
media outlets they started to pick up the story which was known as anonymous
descends on Scientology
instead of sending out a press release full anonymous they recorded a youtube
video with albanist imagery and sound hello
leaders of Scientology we are anonymous over the years we have been watching you
your campaigns of misinformation your suppression of dissent your litigious
nature all of these things have caught a write with the leakage of your latest
propaganda video into mainstream circulation the extent of your malign
influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear
to us Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be
destroyed with that release a movement was born one that has been extremely
active ever since in December of 2010 when the u.s. tried to close the
whistleblowing site WikiLeaks founded by Julian Assange
forcing sites like Amazon PayPal and MasterCard to remove their services
while anonymous launched Operation avenge Asajj in response where they
temporarily brought down PayPal visa and mastercards website for more than four
years a group of computer hackers that goes by the name anonymous has been
hacking the websites of governments and businesses all over the world today
federal prosecutors said six key members have been arrested then in early 2011
when the country Tunisia blocked WikiLeaks
well anonymous they jump back into action starting a series of freedom ops
supporting the Arab Spring protesters in Egypt Syria and elsewhere now speaking
about the moment in time will former anonymous member Peter fine he had this
to say we didn't wage a Twitter campaign to call our senator or get Hillary
Clinton to ask Obama to tell then egyptian president hosni member acted
turned the internet back on fuck that we ran 500 motive lines we sent back spam
with treatments for tear gas because the only thing that was working was
landlines just being able to take direct action and that's what's so compelling
they able to empower the Tunisian people by providing them with the proper tools
and information needed to fight back against the government and led a massive
uprising that eventually toppled the dictatorship when things starting to get
a little crazy in Egypt we moved into a bit more of a proactive role we were
very active Tunisia Libya Syria trying to keep the internet
running in these countries in the face of really almost overwhelming efforts by
governments to shut them down things reach the boiling point soon after when
HBGary federal CEO Aaron Burr will he claimed to have identified the leader of
Anonymous and promised to share their information with the FBI
and while this information ultimately proved to be quite dubious it was enough
to get anonymous attention you think you've mastered full names and home
addresses of the higher-ups of anonymous even haven't even think Anonymous has a
founder and various company founders all's you believe that you can sell the
information you found to be it by calls now why is this one false we've seen
your internal documents all of them and did you know about me did me laugh they
attacked HP Gary's website and they crashed their servers exposing over
70,000 emails including a whole ton of dubious plots like the company having
taken part in the growing crypto intelligence industrial complex
profiting from America's post 9/11 insecurities other social injustice
operations included what unfolded in Steubenville Ohio in 2013 now the case
said about the sixteen-year-old girl who was raped at a drunken house party by
two football players from the local high school these two losers took pictures of
the victim while she was passed out and mercilessly teased her on social media
now anonymous they brought attention to the case and decimated photos and a
damning voicemail that saw one of the attackers harassing the victim even
further on this fateful night a life was changed forever as a group of the
football players of big red high school dubbed themselves rape crew and began
taking advantage of an underage girl the girl was sexually assaulted molested
raped and drugged unconscious from Party to party this is a warning shot to the
school faculty the parents of those involved and those involved especially a
preliminary dux is being released on some of those involved while a full
sized Dux of everyone involved including names Social Security numbers addresses
relatives and phone numbers is being compiled as you watch this video
since then Anonymous has contributed to countless other attacks like operation
out boroughs involving the Westboro Baptist Church which they hacked there
was also operation Charlie Hebdo in response to the shooting at the Charlie
Hebdo office in Paris and there was operation KKK that saw them threatening
to release the names and information over a thousand Klan
members whoever they are wherever they are well hopefully anonymous will
continue to use their power for good rather than evil but here's the thing
well anonymous it isn't so much an organization as they are an ideology
beneath this mask because there's more than flesh beneath this mask there is an
idea and ideas wouldn't know what started as a 4chan message board has
morphed into a global cause for advocacy that is growing day by day now they have
no single leader or cause and to paint them purely as heroes it would be a
mistake and like everything else in this world
well there are nuance then they're complicated but I think that in terms of
the issues facing us today in the here-and-now while they're standing on
the right side of the fence that's for sure
these officers must face criminal charges an officer show that especially
should face murder charges unfortunately we do not trust your corrupt
organization to carry out justice so we will be exposing your many crimes to the
world we are we can expect those ads for the rest of the story well I think we're
gonna wrap this one up here that was a tough one to do very complicated stuff
also I'm I'm nervous I don't want no target on my head we're just historians
here so I think we did a fair story anyways guys let us know who's next in
the comments down below please keep safe out there and I'll see you guys in
another video