Anonymous Responds To Black Ops 2 Trailer, ‘We Are Not Terrorists’

Online hacktivist group which goes by the collective name "Anonymous" responded to a trailer for the upcoming shooter videogame "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2" which portrays the organization as the enemy of the United States, with a YouTube video of their own in which they threatened to hack Activision, the entertainment company behind the game, defacing their website and disrupting their online servers.

[yewles1]

‘We Are Not Terrorists’

You've proven otherwise over and over and over...

[GanjaMan]

but the biggest "terrorist" of them all is the government!

[Dark_Overlord]

Totally agree, but since they're the ones who make the laws, they can easily make themselves look innocent and justify all the things they do

[Dark_Overlord]

You do realise there is no hierarchy in anonymous? Anyone can use the name and commit whatever acts they feel like, just because someone claims to be from anonymous doesn't necessarily mean they represent the views of other 'members' (and I use that term loosely)

[Pintheshadows]

The older I get the more ridiculous 'anyone can use the name and commit whatever acts they feel like' sounds. So those people are anonymous. You can't say the ones that do good are but the ones that do bad aren't.

Stop painting imaginary noble ideals onto the organisation.

[Dark_Overlord]

I never said who was good or bad, just you can't hold the whole of anonymous accountable for other peoples actions.

By your logic you're saying that if one person commits an act under a name then the whole organisation/company should be held accountable?

An example would be the recent Luis Suarez/Patrice Evra incident

[Pintheshadows]

By your logic you're saying that if one person commits an act under a name then the whole organisation/company should be held accountable?

Due to the nature of anonymous i'm afraid that is the case. It isn't a business or Liverpool FC. There are no official channels.

[SPAM-FRITTER-123]

there still blaming Guy Fawkes for terrorism after all these years....oh wait its a hipster wearing a mask complaining about his rights and freedom.

[Emilio_Estevez]

I think most consider them 'cyber-terrorists', as would I. I'm not sure how they could think otherwise. Activists don't steal.

[TekoIie]

The definition of terrorism says otherwise:

"The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes"

I don't think it takes a genius to look at the actions of Anon and the relation they have to terrorism...

[fei-hung]

Since the PSN hack last year, I find it hard to agree with Anon. Realistically Anon should be putting their combined efforts into finding out which individuals profiited from the Iraq war and the overthrowing of Gadaffi. They should be helping Julian Assange by finding facts to help free him. Finding the truth about why Osama was burried as if he was Megatron.

However, if Activision has been dumb enough to play with fire, then we as gamers, them as Activision should not be surprised if they get burnt. Why would you want to risk shit like this knowing what this group is capable of doing?

[GoldenGamer]

"Finding the truth about why Osama was burried as if he was Megatron. "

Made my day +bubbles

[TekoIie]

They have done some good things in the past (well not "good" but the RIGHT things) like with Westborough baptist church but we have to remember 1 simple thing. The group that hacked PSN is not the same group that went after Westborough.

The OPSony group were dumb idiots who didnt even think through what they were trying to accomplish and how they would accomplish their objective. This is also why I believe they've responded to Activision in such a way that proves they are cowardly terrorists. Releasing the CEO's personal info is too far...

[kassler]

Ask any terrorist if they are terrorists and they will say: no, we are freedom fighters.

[dazzrazz]

Actually it would be kinda funny if Activision and dudy services went down on release of next copy & paste title

[TheModernKamikaze]

That's what they all say.

[AtomicGerbil]

If they want to be taken seriously then they could at least learn spell and construct a sentence properly.

[AtomicGerbil]

Although looking back at that comment I could do with some help myself.

[ninjahunter]

Their just as much terrorists as PETA or our own government.

[Marz]

Yes anonymous, let's fight for collective freedom while denying activision's rights to free speech! Makes total sense!

[DeadSpaced]

This doesn't look like the other Anon videos. My guess is some stupid kid made this in his free time because his favorite game insulted his favorite pastime.

[ACBAA]

indeed.

also having so many sentences wrongly structured isnt a common occurrence with Anonymous, it gotta be fake like the 50% of the Anon videos

[WitWolfy]

I remember the Anon group claiming that they would hack Facebook last year November as well... Never happened

[ACBAA]

here's a crazy and exaggerating thought of what might have happened with that, the video was fake.

[steven83r]

They are terrorist. Instead of using guns and bombs they use keyboards. Bringing down PSN and hacking the accounts with personal info and bank info is a crime. They are punks who are too scared to go after the real enemy. They need to hack OPEC and BP and bring down oil companies. Hack the pumps to only charge .99 cents. Then i would truly say they are talented but truth is that is beyond their skill and are too cowardly too even attempt.

[Hicken]

Yeah, you are. And lol @ the government being terrorists. At least here in the US, we can blame that on ourselves, because we're the idiots sitting around ALLOWING it to happen, then complaining about it later. But I digress.

[GraveLord]

"We are not terrorists"

To prove it we're going to hack Activision!

LOL what hypocrites.

[MaverickStar7]

Maybe some of them are not, but some are. Unfortunately for those that are not, they have chosen to align themselves with the group. This is similar to the Occupy movement, without a clear leader and message, it allows anyone to be associated with the group and do whatever they choose. Then a few truly bad seeds can just kill everything for everyone else.