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January 14: Anonymous declared war on the Church of Scientology and bombarded them with DDoS attacks, harassing phone calls, black faxes, and Google bombing. [7] [8]February–December: Known as Project Chanology, Anonymous organized multiple in-person pickets in front of Churches of Scientology world-wide, starting February 10 and running throughout the year, achieving coordinated pickets in ...
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YouTube quickly took the video down and suspended the "AnonymousFacts" account. [315] Gregg Housh, against whom the Church filed criminal complaints, at a May 2008 protest. The Church of Scientology sought an injunction and a restraining order to prevent Anonymous from protesting on March 15, 2008, citing threats allegedly made by Anonymous.
[4] Commentary has existed on YouTube since its early days. The anonymous channel YT Watchdog was active from 2006 to 2015 and, under a voice filter, called out other YouTuber for actions such as artificially inflating video rankings using alternate accounts. Various drama channels, commentary channels and tea channels now exist on YouTube.
Other websites such as YouTube have gone on to create new policies regarding anonymity. [28] YouTube now does not allow anonymous comments on videos. Users must have a Google account to like, dislike, comment or reply to comments on videos. [29] Once a sign-in user "likes" a video, it will be added to that user's 'Liked video playlist'. [30]
In January 2015, Anonymous released a video and a statement via Twitter condemning the attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people, including eight journalists, were fatally shot. The video, claiming that it is "a message for al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists", was uploaded to the group's Belgian account. [170]
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Starting from late 2021, Anonymous took notice of the military build-up near the Russia–Ukraine border and thus acted to propagate peace plans to end the war in Donbas by defacing various websites, such as United Nations' Networks on Migration, Polar Research Institute of China, Convention on Biological Diversity, and various government websites in China.