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It's difficult to say what Anonymous stands for, because it's not a single organisation or group. Anyone can take the label of Anonymous when advocating a cause, and "become part of it".

Before Anonymous got "good guy" publicity for supporting Wikileaks, people calling themselves anonymous were mostly known for trolling: finding emotionally sensitive people and communities, and harassing them both online and offline for their own amusement.



The userbase has always been about schadenfreudic justice and retribution from a perceived slight of the day. moot - or rather, his attorney - fits the bill to a t.


The first things that came to my mind was they would likely try to destroy the brand by buying every moot.* domain and associating it with unsavory things, flooding sites that use moot.it with horrendous crap, and DDoS attacks.




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