Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line

Re:Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line by nirvana on Monday August 29, 2011 @10:25AM (#2937259)

Maybe I'm being dense, but I don't get the point of this article. If the Church of Scientology owned a significant share of Time Warner, then there would be some irony. Or maybe I missed it and Anyonmous is an anti-capitalist organization?

Frankly, I think this is the right mask to use. It is consistent with the role the mask portrayed in the movie V for Vendetta. Further, this image is mostly free of the negative political implications of just about any other mask (e.g.: Imagine in Anyonmous used a Richard Nixon mask... they'd look like bank robbers or the topic of richard nixon would muddy the waters. Nobody is debating Guy Fawkes when they see people in the mask, because the mask is the supposed to be a mask and the original mask wearer was using it as a symbol of fawkes protest, not fawkes politics, etc.)

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Re:Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line by rdp on Monday August 29, 2011 @10:36AM (#2937303)

The irony is that a multi-national corporation is profiting from the mask that many people associate with a protest group that attacks, among others, multi-national corporations.

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Re:Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line by jbooth on Monday August 29, 2011 @11:35AM (#2937505)

So, if you're ignorant as to what the people in anon publicly claim their motives are, and listen to someone else's inaccurate description instead, this is totally ironic! Haha!

In other breaking news, all computer parts are manufactured by multinational corporations.

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Re:Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line by MrKurtHaeusler on Monday August 29, 2011 @10:51AM (#2937348)

Yeah but not because they are multi-national corporations.

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Re:Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line by esrauch on Monday August 29, 2011 @10:30AM (#2937280)

Well, I actually hear the argument about how Guy Fawkes was a religious fanatic come up quite a bit in that context. It really is a V Mask not a Guy Fawkes mask in that regard.

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Re:Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line by _delirium on Monday August 29, 2011 @10:51AM (#2937346)

I don't think it's anti-capitalist in general, but definitely anti-big-media-companies. Time Warner is an MPAA member, for example, and the MPAA isn't too well liked.

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Re:Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line by william42 on Monday August 29, 2011 @05:42PM (#2939158)

In fact, Time Warner is one of the most aggressive in taking down content that uses theirs, so the average internet user/ Anonymous would be pretty likely to dislike Warner above and beyond the average company.

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