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Prominent US Senators and Mayors Outed as Members of the KKK by Anonymous

Hatuey

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Anonymous starts unmasking alleged KKK members | TheHill


I'll say it now, I don't believe that a single one of the names mentioned here are KKK members. I also don't condone doxing. However, now that the information is out there..., if they just so happened to be KKK members.... what is going to happen? Will people defend their membership in these organizations? Will they be asked to leave the party? Surely, this membership can't be one sided. Democrats in the South could also be members.
 

I'm immensely skeptical, myself. The pastebins were nothing (i.e. no actual documentation of member listings, degree of involvement, etc.) but random phone numbers reportedly unconnected to the politicians named, some of the politicians named have incredibly unlikely profiles for any degree of sympathy for the KKK, and a ton of the email addresses were registered with .ru domains.
 

I haven't seen the actual evidence from anonymous, but I don't believe them either.
 
Hatuey said:
I haven't seen the actual evidence from anonymous, but I don't believe them either.
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They are easy enough to grab. It's just a few pastebins with nothing on them to add veracity. So far it's a whole lot of flat soda from Anon's side of the story.
 
Even DailyKos is deleting threads discussing the "exposure". If those moonbats are skeptical then it's nothing to get worked up about.
 
I expect better from Anonymous. Yawn.
 
Apparently, the people releasing names are fake/"impostors". This is the account for the real "Operation KKK": https://twitter.com/Operation_KKK/with_replies. Their list will be released on November 5th. They're criticizing the media for publishing fake information.

In other words, the names being released right now are probably not real KKK members because they aren't being released by the actual people who stole the KKK database information.
 

We'll see.

What I grow tired of each leak cycle is the disavowment meme. "These people screwed up, but they screwed up because they aren't Anonymous. We are."
 
I'm going to take a "wait and see" approach on this one.

According to one article I read, one guy vehemently denies it. So, I was going to come in and start a thread asking if anyone gives it legitimacy, buy Hatuey beat me to it.
 
Fiddytree said:
We'll see.

What I grow tired of each leak cycle is the disavowment meme. "These people screwed up, but they screwed up because they aren't Anonymous. We are."
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There's a difference between No True Scotsman which is what you're talking about and a random group of people pretending to be another group of people which is what is apparently happening in this case.
 
Lutherf said:
Even DailyKos is deleting threads discussing the "exposure". If those moonbats are skeptical then it's nothing to get worked up about.
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Daily Kos is as politically correct as they come.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
There's a difference between No True Scotsman which is what you're talking about and a random group of people pretending to be another group of people which is what is apparently happening in this case.
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While conceptually true, these hacktivists have built up their empire on the basis of both arguing that they exist and they don't exist.
 
Fiddytree said:
While conceptually true, these hacktivists have built up their empire on the basis of both arguing that they exist and they don't exist.
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I think that that's the conclusion you've come to based on being a distant observer of hacktivists. As someone who casually "monitors" them more closely, what actually happens is more normal and boring. Usually, a group of people decide to "hack" whatever the want to hack and, as the idea gets more coverage, random people decide they want a piece of the pie and then start to do their own unauthorized "hacks" under the banner of the original group that came up with the idea. The confusion this causes makes distant observers think that Anonymous, etc. are playing games when it's really just that random people have co-opted their "operations" - a feat that is made easy by anonymity.
 
One of the problems (and ironically a good thing) in an open society with freedom of speech, is that any moonbat can say anything they want - doesn't make it true or even relevant to reality. These guys are just attention whores and are jumping on the most recent Race Bating bandwagon to get noticed.
 
That is really unfortunate, I may have to eat some of my words today from other threads on this subject.

When I first heard about this release of information by Anonymous on various KKK members I took the supporting position of unmasking the KKK so to speak. Looks like I may have been wrong now that more of these numbers and email addresses have come out. Just not sure I buy that all these US Senators are who Anonymous claims they are, and it appears we have some discrepancy between various "accounts" claiming to represent Anonymous.

Looks like I may have been wrong on this one... :3oops:
 
Anyone can claim to be Anon since they are anon. I don't believe anything that is coming out. It could be anyone. Even if it was Anon it could all be unsubstantiated trash from any database. The KKK screws themselves enough without any help.
 
NonoBadDog said:
Anyone can claim to be Anon since they are anon. I don't believe anything that is coming out. It could be anyone. Even if it was Anon it could all be unsubstantiated trash from any database. The KKK screws themselves enough without any help.
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I find it odd and sad that any one would want to claim to be Anon. It would be like claiming to be in the KKK. Why would you want to be associated with either group?
 
Redress said:
I find it odd and sad that any one would want to claim to be Anon. It would be like claiming to be in the KKK. Why would you want to be associated with either group?
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No idea. Good question.
 
Actually, the original article was on a blog, and it wasn't anyone from Anonymous posting it. There also was no link to any real evidence. At this point, I am going to take a wait and see attitude, and I have a feeling it's going to be a very very long wait, maybe forever. LOL.
 
Redress said:
I find it odd and sad that any one would want to claim to be Anon. It would be like claiming to be in the KKK. Why would you want to be associated with either group?
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Actually, Anonymous has done some excellent work, especially outing Obama's continuation of Bush's spying program. However, the article linked to was originally on a blog that "some dude" posted, and it contained no evidence. I doubt if this was the work of Anonymous.
 
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