Oregon Tea Party Rips Off 4chan, Gets Facebook Page Beat Up

[Espy]

Oh, I think the tp'ers are about as dumb as you can get, thats for sure, I mean, the slogan doesn't even work for them.

 

[Element 117]

my dream scenario would be to see 2ch, 4chan, the tea party and scientologists in a four way internet cage match.

 

[Espy]

Now that is a solution I can get behind.

 

[AshburnerX]

I'm with the channers on this one. While I'm no fan of the /b/tards, I think they actually have a case here. If someone stole the tea party slogans, they would have a shit fit.

Don't you need to actually exist to claim ownership legally? I mean, we all know Anon is real, but seeing as it's a group the revels and protects the anonymity of it's members (which is the entire point), it's not like they could send a lawyer to a court house to sue for anything. You'd need at least some of it's members to show up to act as claimants and the second one of them does, it effectively nullifies the entire point of the group.

 

[Rob King]

I'm with the channers on this one. While I'm no fan of the /b/tards, I think they actually have a case here. If someone stole the tea party slogans, they would have a shit fit.

Don't you need to actually exist to claim ownership legally? I mean, we all know Anon is real, but seeing as it's a group the revels and protects the anonymity of it's members (which is the entire point), it's not like they could send a lawyer to a court house to sue for anything. You'd need at least some of it's members to show up to act as claimants and the second one of them does, it effectively nullifies the entire point of the group.[/QUOTE]

They think of themselves as internet-based vigilantes who are ghosts to the real world. Do you think they'll prefer the legal channels, or a strategy of harassment and increasingly serious pranks?

Whatever they are to the legal world doesn't matter. Anonymous thinks it exists, and will act accordingly.

 

[AshburnerX]

The only think of themselves as vigilantes half the time. The other half, they think of themselves as an army of super villains, ready to ruin your day for absolutely no reason other than they can.

 

[Denbrought]

Oh come on, it's not even that complicated. "Anonymous" is just the lynch/riotous mob from the cities of yore, except on the internet. It follows the same logic pretty much throughout.

 

[Rob King]

The only think of themselves as vigilantes half the time. The other half, they think of themselves as an army of super villains, ready to ruin your day for absolutely no reason other than they can.

Either way, how likely is it that they even want to hire lawyers?

 

[Krisken]

I'm with the channers on this one. While I'm no fan of the /b/tards, I think they actually have a case here. If someone stole the tea party slogans, they would have a shit fit.

Don't you need to actually exist to claim ownership legally? I mean, we all know Anon is real, but seeing as it's a group the revels and protects the anonymity of it's members (which is the entire point), it's not like they could send a lawyer to a court house to sue for anything. You'd need at least some of it's members to show up to act as claimants and the second one of them does, it effectively nullifies the entire point of the group.[/QUOTE]
By "case", I wasn't speaking of the legal definition. I was just saying they had a point in calling out those Tea Party twits.