Subject: I won't deny any of this...
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Posted on: 2011-03-26 03:20:00 UTC
... But I feel this is unfairly negative. I frequent 4chan as a lurker and a lot of it isn't nearly so hostile.
But it IS very anonymous, so if one IS hostile, then that person can't be tracked. So they do run rampant.
But not everywhere. And not every anon is a troll or hacker or disreputable. Anonymous is defined not as an identity, but as the content it puts forward. What the anonymous provides is the only identity of anonymous.
Anonymous that supports Egyptian freedom is very different from Anonymous that trolls Gaia Online.
So Anonymous isn't ALWAYS bad. But there's a lot of bad content despite that. >_>