AnonNews has serious fucking problems, not the least of which is the fact that every significant op is going to be criticized by some or another butthurt Anon and then the Feds get a free fucking buffet of potential internal divisions. Luckily, those tend to be ignored by the media at large, which is catered to by those of us who actually do work and are thus in a position to provide scoops - and thus verify things before they happen, in turn increasing our credibility, and ensure that the media therefore knows who actually knows what's what. If someone at Anonnews writes a great press release, it''ll go viral and people will follow along and that's swell. If they write a shit release, it'll be mocked by the sort of Anons who sit around Anonnews mocking press releases rather than working their asses off like we do in Anonops.in. So, I'm not worried. If you look, you'll see that al-Jazeera, NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ, NY Daily News (lol), and NBC know perfectly well who to come to to find out what's actually going to happen next, and the reason for that is because those of us who are work on these things are able to feed them info beforehand. It's a nice system. Having said that, certainly Anonymous is going through growing pains and in the meantime we are encouraging decentralization and expansion while also trying to ensure that our culture remains ethical and work-oriented. It takes time and effort by many people to do this, but if I weren't confident that we are dynamic enough to respond to such challenges, I certainly wouldn't be risking prison for this.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Adrian Chen <repletewithadrian@gmail.com> wrote:

What's up? Is Anon publicizing those Palantir smoking gun emails?

Also, what did you think of Nate Andersons' latest Ars Technica piece. I thought it was spot on about the problems facing Anon right now, with so many ops being launched by random people. Got any idea how the problem can be fixed? Seems like Anonnews has become flooded with bullshit.

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On Mar 1, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

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