Screw You, Anonymous, Screw You Very Much

Your recent attack on PSN isn't justice. It isn't some honorable cause that you have hearkened to. It is pure and utter malice. It undermines everything you have ever stood for. It undermines those that would support you. It undermines everything you have set out to accomplish.

Before you jump to conclusions, understand something: I, along with millions of PS3 owners support Anonymous in many of Anonymous' undertakings. Many Anonymous members are PS3 owners themselves.

We supported and joined you when you protested the WTO in Seattle in 1999.

We support and join you in your protest of scientology.

We support you and join you in protest of the Westborough Baptist Church.

We sent money to defend Julian Assange. Helped with the DDOS on Visa (and others.)

We support your unerring efforts to bring about global change on many, many fronts.

Some of us have even supported George Hotz.

In short, we are the very people that join those protests and help your numbers swell, help the monetary needs of those who fight the good fight.

Attacking PSN was not the good fight. If you have a problem with SONY, then go after SONY. Though PSN is their property, what you have done is nothing short of anger the very gamers, professionals, and individuals who would go to bat for you. Sure, it may mean a little inconvenience. We can't play our multiplayer games or download DLC or updates, it is true. But the one thing that you have affected, and the one thing you would be the least likely to criticize was Folding@Home. Thousands of PS3s were shut off from the Folding@Home project.

From the University of Stanford: "Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
You can help scientists studying these diseases by simply running a piece of software."

Simply by running the app on my PS3 I am helping to fight these diseases. Now, you, Anonymous have interrupted the mission. You feel strongly about what happens in the world. We do to. And to better the world, we allow Stanford to use our PS3s through the PSN to help understand these diseases and fight them. We are just as passionate about this as you are in your fights to right the wrongs of this world. To impart your own justice.

Curing disease is justice. How many lives have you affected? How many people may die because you had to disrupt the computing power of thousands? Just to get your revenge? Too dramatic? Remember that this attack has sent a ripple through the efforts to fight cancer, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell, and many other diseases. It has disrupted efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

So, from those of us who have supported you for nigh on 2 decades and are helping to fight debilitating diseases, Screw you. Screw you, very much.