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The simplest reason is that there is an identifiable person here. Brutsch is now a known individual.

Anonymous is still just a bunch of persons with no coherent membership, who may or may not be reachable. Until Anonymous goes after an alphabet agency again, there's really no point.

Literally anyone could be in Anonymous, simply by claiming the name.



I don't understand. Kody Maxson & Amanda Todd are known individuals too. I just listened to a half hour episode on the CBC's The Current that was very well done and brought up a lot of good discussion points about the nature of hactivism, vigilante justice, doxxing, the role of the police, the role of advertisers, Facebook & Youtube in censoring hateful comments, et cetera.




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