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== History ==
 
== History ==
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The use of the 'Anonymous' collective name to describe the source of activities dates to 2003 (it has no official founders or membership so dating it's founding is difficult) on various image boards on the Internet, the most famously attributed of which is 4chan.
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The name of Anonymous originates from the website 4chan, where each user is automatically considered Anonymous and they use this as Now this is a story all about how
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My life got flipped-turned upside down
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And I liked to take a minute just sit right there
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And tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air
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In west Philadelphia born and raised
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On the playground is where I spent most of my days
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Chillin out, maxin, relaxing all cool,
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And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
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When a couple of guys who were up to no good
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Started making trouble in my neighborhood
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I got in one lil fight and my mom got scared
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And said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"
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I Begged and pleaded with her day after day,
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But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
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She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket
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I put my walkman on and said I might as well kick it
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First class yo this is bad
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Drinking orange juice out of a champaine glass
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Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?
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Hmm this might be allright
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But wait I hear prissy, bourgeois and all that
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Is this the type of place they should send this cool cat
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I don't think so, I'll see when I get there
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I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air
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In its early days its focus was focused on 'trolling' various websites<ref>http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=459214</ref>, usually by including offensive or inappropriate material on the websites of groups with whom they disagree.
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Well ah the plane landed and when I came out
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There was a dude that looked like a cop standing there with my
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name
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out
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I aint trying to get arrested yet I just got here
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I sprang with the quickness like lightning dissapeared
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I whistled for a cab and when it came near
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The license plate said FRESH and it had dice in the mirror
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If anything I can say this cab was rare
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But I thought naw forget it yo homes to Bel-Air
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I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
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And I yelled to the cabby "Yo homes smell ya later"
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I looked at my kingdom I was finally there
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To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
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In 2008, in response to a Tom Cruise video <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHkHZIyrdo</ref>, Anonymous became more homogeneous in it's opposition to the Church of Scientology <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ</ref>. Known as Operation Chanology, it included Denial-of-Service attacks, real life protests and mass publication and spread of information usually withheld by members of the church.
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The internet hates you, Conservapedia.  
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Deleting this is an act of censorship and will prove you as a biased, lying group of intolerant, greedy scum. Plus, you're automatically Racist if you delete this masterpiece by Will Smith.
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In 2010 it rose to notoriety due to Anonymous' actions against those who opposed copyright violation. Operation Payback was initially about using network abuse in a vain attempt to intimidate large corporations, and later became involved with the support of Wikileaks and Julian Assange.  
      
== Beliefs ==
 
== Beliefs ==