SAN JOSE, Calif., April 1 (UPI) -- A Texas couple who say Internet posters made their lives "torture" after they were charged with rape are closer to stripping away their tormentors' anonymity.
A judge in California turned down a motion by Topix.com to quash a subpoena for identifying information on 178 anonymous posters, ABC News reported. The judge ordered the Web site to discuss with the plaintiff couple which documents are relevant to the case.
The ruling was issued Friday in Santa Clara County.
Mark and Rhonda Lesher of Clarksville, Texas, and a man who works on their ranch were acquitted of rape. But they say their legal vindication has not stopped the stream of anonymous posts on the Internet accusing them of even more serious crimes and their lives have been "torture."
In a lawsuit filed in February, the Leshers named the 178 user names responsible for the most scurrilous comments on Topix. They have been the subject of about 25,000 posts.
The "Anonymous" phenomenon is highly suspicious. I'm not completely sure, but I think it's a plot to push us into Web 2.0 by spreading hate and vileness all over the internet, destroying its potential as a tool for spreading truth and causing more cases like this one. It is sacrificing the individual for security under anonymity. They beg for attention, both positive and negative, and when they get the attention of the government types (if they haven't already, I've speculated that there are already agent provocateurs posting disgusting things in the name of Anonymous in order to force more restrictions on what can be said on the internet) they will have full support of enforcing Web 2.0.
Take, for instance, their mascot "Pedo Bear":
"Parents beware! Pedobear has become a mascot for online pedophiles, specifically targeting innocent prepubescent girls."
(Looks like a joke at first, but if you ever visit one of their sites you will quickly see that they are nothing but vile scum)
Anonymous in America stems from a Japanese website (where animated child pornography is legal). These are the same people who protested Scientology wearing Guy Fawkes masks (and acting like stupid asses in general). How ironic is that? I believe it was a ploy to make people against dangerous cults (perhaps unconsciously) look like a bunch of sheep who are afraid of showing who they really are.
All I can say about them is, they are vile. Their sites are deeply corrupted and corrupting of the minds of anyone who stumbles upon them. Take down the sites where they congregate and go completely out of control (or are they under control?), don't destroy internet anonymity itself.
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4chan is bizarre. A government social experiment and monitoring operation for me. From the 4chan posting rules:
Do not post the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry"), grotesque ("guro"), or loli/shota pornography.
Personally I think the /b/ board in particular is used to trap potential paedophiles, and the anonymous horde love to play "bait the pedobear." Almost certainly aided and abetted by the requisite government agencies working on that board.
It's the perfect online social experiment. Foster the anonymous creed, where everyone who posts feels secure in their specious anonymity, liberally and profusely spread subversive, sick humour masked as a healthy counter-point to the politically correct straightjacket that cocoons people's everyday interactions.
No way is that place being allowed to carry on in such a fashion without sanction. There must be a reason they specify "loli/shota pornography" for /b/ alone.
The one thing that sticks out to me is how long it's been the way it is... I was once a regular member (meaning I was obsessed with it and spent all day and all night when I wasn't working browsing /b/), but left after I got the distinct feeling that I was being watched, and because I have absolutely no interest in Loli or Shota or their disgusting "sense of humor" and it seemed to become the sole purpose of people visiting the site. It's no secret that hackers and script kiddies are all over that site, but there was also this weird government-level corruption that I was learning about at the same time becoming evident.
"Bait the Pedobear" sounds like "Post child pornography for others to save onto their Tor 'protected' hard drive before it gets taken down". I haven't been there in a couple of years so I don't know what it's like now, but it was already completely screwed by then. It's a huge blackmail operation, IMO, especially with all the "Jailbait" pictures (girls under 18 posing nude and such)
Watching their memes spread all over the internet was like watching the moon collide with earth. It was unbelievable, and I found it strange how hard it was to find other people who felt the same way I did about the site through experience.
Btw, I also have this post from January on the subject of 4chan:
Shady Origins of the LOLcat
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