The power of Anonymous rests in the media attention it gets. A small group of people began to act as the sole media front-end for Anonymous and held all the power in this position. Anonymous lost confidence in its own representatives and has since continued with business as usual. The failed DDoS attack on the Chamber of Commerce lacked participation and the element of surprise, leading some to declare Anonymous ‘dead’.
Anonymous is the dead horse that comes back to life as soon as someone comes around and kicks it. The 8,000 people who joined in DDoS attacks to support WikiLeaks are still there and still mad as hell. The support for DDoS, however, has dwindled. Forty of the DDoSers from the cablegate affair were arrested, and the definition of “civil disobedience” has come into question after Sonygate.
As applied to Mastercard, which imposed unfair financial punishment to WikiLeaks, DDoS was wholly regarded as symbolic civil disobedience. When Sony was attacked, millions of gamers were disconnected because of DDoS. This was not viewed as civil disobedience.
When media becomes little more than a propaganda filter full of opinionated liars, there needs to be a balance. Rather than voting up attack plans for the Chamber of Commerce on Reddit, vote up material that will inform people of the issue, and give them a list of ways to contact the people behind Protect IP. I have sent repetitive e-mails to their offices, flooding them with disapproval. When DDoS is spoiled and inappropriate, there are better ways to have your voice heard. No one supports PROTECT IP. Why do Senators masquerade as representatives of anything but corporate power? Let them know who’s really in charge. Below are a list of the sponsors of PROTECT IP and links to email them, telephone them, and yes, even fax them.
The PROTECT IP Act is the work of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and is cosponsored by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-.R.I.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Christopher Coons (D-Del.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)
Senators with Twitter Accounts: @ChrisCoons, @GrahamBlog, @ChuckGrassley, @SenatorLeahy, @SenBlumenthal
Senator Leahy:
Shit-eating contact form for Leahy
Washington Office 437 Russell Senate BldgUnited States SenateWashington, DC 20510(202) 224-4242
Burlington Office 199 Main Street, 4th Floor Burlington, VT 05401(802) 863-25251-800-642-3193
Montpelier Office P.O. Box 93387 State Street, Room 338 Montpelier, VT 05602(802) 229-0569
Chuck Schumer’s multiple offices:
Shitty Contact form for Chuck Schumer
Washington D.C. 322 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-6542 Fax: 202-228-3027 TTD: 202-224-0420
New York City 757 Third Avenue Suite 17-02 New York, NY 10017 Phone: 212-486-4430 Fax: 212-486-7693 TDD: 212-486-7803
Albany Leo O’Brien Building Room 420 Albany, NY 12207 Phone: 518-431-4070 Fax: 518-431-4076
Binghamton 15 Henry Street Room M103 Binghamton, NY 13901 Phone: 607-772-6792Fax: 607-772-8124
Buffalo 130 South Elmwood Avenue #660 Buffalo, NY 14202 Phone: 716-846-4111 Fax: 716-846-4113
Hudson Valley One Park Place, Suite 100Peekskill, NY 10566 Phone: 914-734-1532 Fax: 914-734-1673
Long Island 145 Pine Lawn Road #300 Melville, NY 11747 Phone: 631-753-0978 Fax: 631-753-0997
Rochester 100 State Street, Room 3040 Rochester, NY 14614 Phone: 585-263-5866 Fax: 585-263-3173
Syracuse 100 South Clinton Street Room 841 Syracuse, NY 13261-7318Phone: 315-423-5471 Fax: 315-423-5185
Enough offices senatorfag?
Diane Feinstein
Senator Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
TTY/TDD: (202) 224-2501San Francisco
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 393-0707
Fax: (415) 393-0710The following counties are served by the San Francisco office: Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo, Yuba.
Los Angeles
11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: (310) 914-7300
Fax: (310) 914-7318The following counties are served by the Los Angeles office: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura.
San Diego
750 B Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 231-9712
Fax: (619) 231-1108The following counties are served by the San Diego office: Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial, San Diego.
Fresno
2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4290
Fresno, CA 93721
Phone: (559) 485-7430
Fax: (559) 485-9689The following counties are served by the Fresno office: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Providence Office:
170 Westminster Street
Suite 1100
Providence, RI 02903
401-453-5294 phone
401-453-5085 faxWashington Office:
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 717
Washington, D.C. 20510
202-224-2921 phone
202-228-6362 fax
Lindsey Graham
Contact Lindsey Graham via Poopsex
Washington Office290 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5972Upstate Regional Office
130 South Main Street, 7th Floor
Greenville
(864) 250-1417Midlands Regional Office
508 Hampton Street, Suite 202
Columbia
(803) 933-0112Pee Dee Regional Office
McMillan Federal Building
401 West Evans Street, Suite 111
Florence
(843) 669-1505Lowcountry Regional Office
530 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, Suite 202
Mt. Pleasant
(843) 849-3887Piedmont Regional Office
235 East Main Street, Suite 100
Rock Hill
(803) 366-2828Golden Corner Regional Office
124 Exchange Street, Suite A
Pendleton
(864) 646-4090
Herb Kohl
Washington Office
330 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5653
Fax: (202) 224-9787Eau Claire Office
402 Graham Ave., Suite 206
Eau Claire WI 54701
(715) 832-8424
Fax: (715) 832-8492Appleton Office
4321 W. College Ave., Suite 370
Appleton, WI 54914
(920) 738-1640
Fax: (920) 738-1643Milwaukee Office
310 W. Wisconsin Ave., Suite 950
Milwaukee, WI 53203
(414) 297-4451
Fax: (414) 297-4455
1-800-247-5645 Wisconsin ResidentsMadison Office
14 W. Mifflin St., Suite 207
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 264-5338
Fax: (608) 264-5473La Crosse Office
205 5th Avenue South, Room 216
La Crosse, WI 54601
(608) 796-0045
Fax: (608) 796-0089
Christopher Coons
Washington D.C. Office
127A Russell Senate Office Building<
Washington, D.C., 20510Phone: (202) 224-5042
Fax: (202) 228-3075
Wilmington Office
1105 N. Market St.
Suite 2000
Wilmington, DE, 19801-1233Phone: (302) 573-6345
Fax: (302) 573-6351
Milford Office
24 NW Front St.
Windsor Building Suite 101
Milford, DE, 19963
Phone: (302) 424-8090
Fax: (302) 424-8098
Richard Blumenthal
State Office
30 Lewis St.
Ste 101
Hartford, CT 06103
tel: (860) 258-6940
fax: (860) 258-6958Washington D.C.
702 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington DC, 20510
tel: (202) 224-2823
fax: (202) 224-9673
14 replies on “Anonymous is not dead yet”
Your a fucking moron.
Quit spamming anonnews with your bullshit.
Clearly, I’m walking the line between trolling, serious opinion, and encouraging illegal behavior. But no, I don’t care if you would rather DDoS, blackfax your senator, or write meaningful letters full of anger. I’m just writing for you, the one person who knows what Anonymous is all about. Anonymous = GTFO
Thank you so very much for donating your daily supply of GTFO
Don’t try to suggest honest political action to these mouth-breathers. They would rather stay up all night drinking Code Red Mountain Dew, circlejerking an IRC room around their ever-dwindling LOIC capabilities.
The Protect IP Act = the worst bill ever written for the internet. Think of your precious downloads, anonymous. But sure, go ahead, prepare an attack on us instead, and fail at DDoSing .gov sites while you’re at it. That should convince them that an Internet clampdown is a bad idea!
Yes, let’s abuse the internet in hopes that said abuse will convince them not to clamp down on us.
A (relatively) likely scenario provided things keep going the way they are is that the free first world countries will end up either with internet as regulated as TV, or dead and gone because WW3 started and they were caught with their pants down and their data-banks full of question marks above empty suits.
I’VE SAID IT BEFORE AN I’LL SAY IT AGAIN: FUCK ANONYMUS
I entered my REAL name and my REAL e-mail.
Come and fucking get me, I’d love to test the strength of a DDoS attack
against a 7.26mm LOL
wasn’t it a .45 last time?
LOL WTF
In my country, the most conservative newspapers are supportive of Anonymous. Ive wondered why for some time, until I realized how conservative most danish anons really are.
Which makes me wonder why these people feel a need to hide and from what?
Its not illegal to be a Tory, so Im thinking the reason why so many anons feel the need to hide, is just to diguise their own inability to make a difference.
The attempt to merge political activism, street-art and anonymous self-hating fags seem to have failed.
The truth is, that Europe is once again becoming fascistic and the youth of our nations seem to be completely into that.
We are getting ready to fight, a civil war with out masks!
They hide there faces mainly for security, as allot of what they do is illegal.
http://toannoymyroommate.blogspot.com/2011/05/operation-payback-ineffective.html
well done sir!
One of my closest friends fell for these fucking bastards and their damn idealistic slogans and got chucked in a fucking state prison.
i’m refering to the fucking anons there