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Has Anonymous ever been an actual group or more of a loose collection of people claiming the name?



Read the wikipedia page, its pretty accurate. There have been arrests for 'Anonymous' hacks but it's not really a group, more so an idea.


You're totally right and I shouldn't have referred to them as one entity. Even so, I think that Twitter accounts "representing" Anonymous spreading misinformation really discredits the work other Anonymous members do.


I don’t think the point of taking up the “anonymous” moniker is to get credit. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the underlying meme, which is populist, not meritocratic or whatever. It’s spelled out quite well in V for Vendetta...


sabu[1] existed and was an actual person behind a keyboard at least some of the time. Hard to say where it starts and where it ends now, or then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Monsegur


> the work other Anonymous members do

such as?




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