By Aaron Kesel

Anonymous has attacked several websites in the past few weeks as the collective returns to its glory days. This writer sat down to speak to the collective on a plethora of topics for one of the biggest exclusive interviews in a long time.

To start, no single individual represents the whole idea of Anonymous. However, there are security groups or secs within the collective which speak for the bigger idea; and if individual Anons agree, then they hop on the “train” for the agreed cause. As previously written, “there are no specific goals for the collective; there is, however, an overarching desire within shared by many to combat censorship, promote freedom of speech, and counter government control within the collective. Anti-oppression and supporting whistleblowers seems to be something most can also agree on.”

The collective also took a swing at Reddit’s mods in a high-traffic subreddit showing admin abuse, symbolic because one of the internet’s own boys, Aaron Swartz, created the popular website. Ever since Swartz’ death the once free speech haven where anyone could go viral has been ruined with censorship of opinions while racism runs rampant.

All deface links are below and can be viewed without worry archived on archive.org or a similar medium.

Anonymous is back, so to speak, but did the collective idea ever really leave? No, not really, you can’t kill an idea. However, the collective has returned in “full whack!”

You can read this author’s full exclusive interview with Anonymous below.

1. What were the motivations for the attacks?

Anonymous is coming back in full fucking whack! After the death George Floyd we want to do something about it like most of you so we took down Minneapolis Police Department’s website and mess with their radios. For that we also managed to hack and deface Brookhaven National Labs webpage.

We also took Atlanta PD site down too.

2. Why did you include Jeffrey Epstein documents on the Philippines deface?

If this were to be leaked earlier the common folks of the United States won’t have to endure his horrible consequences for the mishandling of COVID 19 crisis.

3. What do the documents posted on the deface include?

Besides Epstein documents we include a lot of Reddit’s “mod abuse” cases on a high-traffic subreddit where the mod/mods in question improperly abuse the power given to him such as banning users for no reason as if he’s a damned Digong doing it out of fun and boredom.

4. Can we expect more actions to follow?

Of course! Anonymous is everywhere and can be anyone.

5. Does this have anything to do with press freedom as some of the memes on the deface talk about journalism?

Yes. Anonymous want to protest Duterte’s censorship of media including the revocation of ABS-CBN’s license so we did this.

6. Why did you include a bunch of memes is that just for the trolling lulz?

Some of those memes are reused from Anon previous ops as does the page source code used in #OpPhilippines deface too. It’s fun by our standards.

7. Since your motivations seem to be to expose press freedoms what is your personal opinion on WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange’s case?

Julian Assange did absolutely nothing wrong when he exposed US war crimes in Iraq!

8. Do you have any further message to the public? 269GB worth of US police agencies data are now live.

If you wanna protest power corruption in general then the scope doesn’t have to be limited to just governmental aspects only. Many orgs and companies such as Reddit, Facebook or even Wikipedia which most of us hold dear in terms of trust have engaged in shady practices behind our prying eyes.
https://anewspost.com/hackers-release-269gb-of-data-from-200-us-police-agencies/

If the instrument of law is perverted by totalitarians into a tool of abuse then people should no longer have the obligation to follow it.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. We are Anonymous, We are Legion, We do not forgive, We do not forget, Expect us!

**By [@An0nkn0wledge](https://hive.blog/@an0nkn0wledge)**

Aaron Kesel writes for Activist Post.