Have you ever heard of Anonymous?
Anonymous is an amorphos underground collective of internet activists - interactivists. Many of their activities are illegal, or at least reside in the grey area of legality. Some refer to them as hacktivists. They hack into the servers of organisations they perceive to be corrupt, immoral, unjust, greedy or just plain evil. They steal and leak information, shut down websites, infiltrate and disrupt email systems. They seek truth, liberty, freedom, fairness and justice - sort of like your typical comic book superhero, only Anonymous is real. Real and virtual at the same time. They don't have a face, they have no leadership (although Barrett Brown, who co-authored Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny with Jon P. Alston, has been widely associated with Anonymous as its informal spokesman and strategist) and they have no headquarters. They just are. And it is entirely likely that a number of them is among us here on JWN.
Anonymous has taken on several causes, some political, some social, some secular and, yes, some religious. In 2008, Anonymous launched Project Chanology, an attack on the Church of Scientology's website that successfully took it out of action after the Church threatened legal action in response to an unflattering YouTube post. This year already, they have launched Operation Westboro against the notorious homophobic Baptist church, in which the WBC website was hacked during a live radio debate between a Westboro representative and an Anonymous participant.
I am not advocating an attack of this nature on the Watchtower. I am wondering when it might happen.
