Have you tried protesting lately? Maybe not, but we are all familiar with the protestors associated with the Occupy movement. These protestors are the ones who take up space and voice their dissent by physically being somewhere, but what you may not know is that there is another type of protestor that does not even have to leave their house.
Perhaps best known by their moniker “Anonymous,” these protestors have been classified a number of ways ranging from activists to nerds to cyber-terrorists. Those are strong classifications on the spectrum of good and evil so just what is “Anonymous” and what are they doing?
What is Anonymous?
“Anonymous” is a loosely connected group of Internet hackers around the world that originated on the image board www.4chan.org in 2003. The group has no leader and derives its name from the anonymity provided by the Internet. In their attacks, they have largely claimed to be champions of free speech and freedom of the Internet.
Okay… So what do they do?
“Anonymous” participates in a form of protesting known as