Many people these days look at the Hacktivist group Anonymous with the wrong looks, but many rumours are wrong.
Many people think that Anonymous followers are just 14 year old kids who live in their parents basement searching Google for the latest hacking techniques; while hacking any weak business site just for fun. Others think that Anonymous is a group of Computer Geniouses that go around hacking websites and stealing peoples personal data and sharing them with the world.
No. Anonymous is not an invite only group; their is no leader. Anonymous cannot be defined by a description, since anyone and everyone can join Anonymous. Anonymous seems to fight for freedom and rights of the people. They are not a bunch of computer hackers that hack whoever they have to, to get their own way. They are freedom of information, and fight for it too, and use hacking as a tool to free information that should be free in the first place. Not for fun, and the majority of Anonymous don't even hack. They just spread the latest information that isn't poisoned by todays media. Most operations that Anonymous conduct day to day are protests to keep some sort of information free, and keep privacy on the Internet at it's prime, and keep censorship low. Everything that you see on television or related media releasing something evil Anonymous is doing, was poisoned. Anonymous may do some things to disturb the public, but it's helping a positive, greater cause to the world, and is just part of the problem to find a bigger and better solution. Anonymous has reunited many families and groups just of the goodness of their hearts. Anonymous has started up closed cases for lost family members, and helped find the missing person in the case, just because the skills and goodness Anonymous holds.
Anonymous is a group of people of large size that want to change the world that everyone SHOULD have rights in, and can ENJOY! They want to keep the peace in this corrupted world, where governments control all! I am in no way bringing this speech from the point of view of a supporter of Anonymous (I do Support Anonymous) I am bringing this for the people that still think Anonymous are bad people. The point of view is coming from a common citizen of the world, that watches the news daily after dinner, and in the morning.
Anonymous has made mistakes in their past, but they have formed this far as the love machine and authority of the Internet. They wipe Pedophile sites from the Internet, in no aggression. They wipe racist and sexist sites from the dark corners of the internet to keep it pure and free. They want to keep the internet free and make sure the world is informed! Anonymous isn't what you think it is or what the media says about them. They are people too, but fighting for our rights! Anonymous has been peaking headlines almost every week since the beginning of this year, and none of the stories are negative. They have reunited families that have been apart for long periods of time, they have helped find suspects to large amounts of crimes lately, and they have gotten the privacy hindering bill CISPA VETO'd by President Barack Obama! Before you hear something about Anonymous on the news in the coming months and scowl them, think about the things they have helped the world with. They -- No. -- We have done more good than bad (our sour past) so far, and are helping fix the world one step at a time. People cannot kill an idea. I am proud to say I am an Anonymous Supporter.
Anonymous Brothers and Sisters reading this, please share this with the public to get this out! People need to know that we are not the people they think we are! We just want freedom and our rights!
Please give suggestions to add to this article, as I would love to improve this article about Anonymous! We are Legion. United as one, divided by zero.