On behalf of medications, remember the story of the guy stuck on an island and prayed to god to rescue him. He refused a raft, a ship, and a plane saying, “god will rescue me”. Later, he asked god “where were you? I waited for you to come down and rescue me.” God said, ” I sent you a raft, a boat, and a plane, dummy.”

I blame the 7chan admins for allowing this to continue repeatedly and protecting the instigators every time it happens.

Some time later someone posted a comment saying that the epilepsy site was keeping a log of everyone who had visited the site from the link posted on 7chan.

So, now I’m super paranoid that just from following that link, without actually doing anything; I could get in trouble.

I sent an e-mail to the epilepsy site telling them that I have a close relative that has epilepsy; and that the people who posted the flashing gifs were not representative of all chan users. I still haven’t got a reply back.

Now, one thing I want to make very clear is that the chans ARE taboo breaking, obscene, obnoxious websites; and the majority of chan users ARE perverts, freaks, and weirdos. BUT the trolling, and youtube “hater” comments, that come from chan users come about because the majority of channers don’t take the internet seriously. Whenever someone does something like this though; you break the 4th wall and that’s not good.

One thing that should be noted is that from what I can tell the users on the epilepsy forum are being very, very, mature about this (or they were as of a couple days ago) and were not on a highhorse to go after the abusive posters (who are more than likely teenagers or college students). ITS BLOGGERS AND THE MEDIA who are trying to milk this thing into a human interest story which can cause trouble for ALL internet users. The television media (and the above blogger for that matter) love to fear monger, and if they are to continue writing about this incident in such outraged tones; they could easily compromise the freedoms of the internet.
This type of incident is fuel for the type of scare mongering that will be deployed by those who want the internet to be under the control of corporate interests.

Anyone who knows anything about Anonymous knows that nobody knows anything about Anonymous. It is not a “group,” it’s not “activists.” You can’t find it, or stop it, or accuse it, or prevent it; it would be like finding, stopping, accusing, or preventing gravity. It just is.