Alan Moore on V For Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous

First time accepted submitter tmcb writes in with a piece by Alan Moore about the influence his comic has had on the hacker group Anonymous. "On Saturday protests are planned across the world against Acta — the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The treaty has become the focus of activists associated with the Anonymous hacking network because of concerns that it could undermine internet privacy and aid censorship. First published in 1982, the comic series V for Vendetta charted a masked vigilante's attempt to bring down a fascist British government and its complicit media. Many of the demonstrators are expected to wear masks based on the book's central character. Ahead of the protests, the BBC asked V for Vendetta's writer, Alan Moore, for his thoughts on how his creation had become an inspiration and identity to Anonymous."

Are they sure the writer is the real Alan Moore?

[elrous0]

I'd be lying if I didn't admit that whatever usefulness they afford modern radicalism is very satisfying.

Wow, that's the first time I think I've ever heard Alan Moore expressing anything remotely akin to...dare I say..."happiness."

This article *must* be a hoax.

Based on previous reactions of Moore's:

[orphiuchus]

I expected any external use of his writings whatsoever to cause him to roll-over in the grave which I can only assume he sleeps in every night.

Re:At Least...

[ByOhTek]

I think the only way to get a grouping of people that doesn't have members that have been murdered by the Mexican Mafia, is to make the group "People who haven't been murdered by the Mexican Mafia."

Re:At Least...

[Rik Sweeney]

I suggest they do self immolation.

Hilariously, your comment was modded as Flamebait.

Re:That was England...

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, once ACTA passes the police will own the copyright on such videos and they'll be taken down posthaste to prevent piracy.

Re:difference

[anagama]

instead of opposing a fascist government its now about opposing a government controlled by big corporations

Was that intentional? Like in "King of the Hill" where a character says something along the lines of: I'm not sad, I just feel sense hopelessness and depressed mood. If it was intentional, very funny.

Re:Are they sure the writer is the real Alan Moore

[Xtifr]

Then you're obviously on the wrong site: this is news for nerds, i.e., people who can figure out how to use a URI even if it's not hyperlinked. News for hapless, brain-dead idiots is thataway [foxnews.com]. (Or even thataway [nationalenquirer.com].)

Now go away and let the grownups talk. :p ;)

Re:At Least...

[Anonymous Coward]

....and in breaking news, the Crown Prince of Japan, a noted poet who has been nominated for this year's Nobel Prize for literature, was gunned down today during a state visit to Greenland, by what appear to have been members of a mexican drug cartel. Local authorities declined to comment on what the fuck that was all about.