anonymous... acted as enabler to isis
David_Flanagan1
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Remember back in the days of the "peaceful" arab spring, anonymous enabled the use of social media in Syria Egypt etc. Looking back its not worked out so good. A poorly calculated move?
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You learn something new every day.
SN were largely shut down or surveiled during the AS. Anonymous circumvented this.
What????
Anonymous are hacking ISIS, taking down their websites, you know the ones that our intelligence agencies claim cant be stopped.
I don't agree with everything that anonymous does, but your talking utter nonsense
I should think they have a bit of a guilty conscience playing such a central role in the setting up of the caliphate.
Was it Anonymous? Or was it those who developed tools like Tor?
Something tells me that Western interference in the middle east over the past 15 years has more to do with the growth of ISIS than Twitter or Facebook use does.
Or Western governments for removing the dictators that kept the extremists in check?
Isis didnt have a gripe with the west initially. They were brought to our attention after the yazidi slaughter and the mountain episode. Opening lines of communication for them has proven lethal. I think anonymous have alot to answer for.
Indeed, blaming anonymous is a fantasy
You're missing the point. Back in 2011 ISIS were the good guys. The Arab Spring was a prime example of why taking sides in a conflict can come back to bite you in the arse
Blair and Bush have a helluva lot more to answer for.
To blame Anonymous for giving innocent people a voice that was abused by extremists is nonsense.
Indeed, the US armed the Syrian rebels (as one example) many of whom were known to have ties to extremist groups.
Blair, Bush, Cameron and Obama have some serious questions to answer.
they didn't
Great, I look forward to reading their posts.
Not quite. What Anonymous did was give information about how to evade blocks on internet access and help provide proxies. The atrocities committed by ISIS still do not negate what Assad has done.
In the meantime, OpISIS has taken down more than a thousand ISIS-owned accounts and has exposed many others as having links to the terrorist group.
Exactly. Anonymous is way down the list.
You are ignoring the bigger picture here.
We were living in times of the cold war, and Afghanistan was fighting the Russians.
The West was against the Russians, hence America supported the Mujahideen.
The US, however, "...deny that the CIA or other American officials had contact with the Afghan Arabs (foreign mujahideen) or Bin Laden, let alone armed, trained, coached or indoctrinated them."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA%E2%80%93al-Qaeda_controversy
I was personally against both Iraq and Libya (like many Western people), but I could understand some of the arguments for these interventions.
However, there's nothing that can be done now, and we need to move forward.
Information that is freely available elsewhere online. If not Anonymous then the people would have gotten the info from somewhere else.
They would though
Well it's not often I agree with you (if ever), but on this I do.
Yes, I know. It helps to think of Anonymous as a banner at times as opposed to an organised movement.