ETHICS ASSIGNMNENT FINAL

Description: I chose a news article that reported on an ongoing war between the hacktivist group known as Anonymous and the Islamic Terrorist group known as ISIS. the Article stated that Anonymous has been hacking and bringing down ISIS websites dedicated to recruiting and propaganda. Anonymous also recently hijacked ISIS related twitter accounts in an attempt to troll the terrorist group.

  https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/inside-anonymous-civil-war-over-its-fight-with-isis

  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/anonymous-vs-isis-social-media-war/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/17/islamic-state-twitter-accounts-rainbow-makeover-anonymous-hackers

Reasoning: i agree with these acts of hacktivism. While i agree that Anonymous is still an anti government group that should be brought to answer for previous crimes, i also believe that they are doing some good for the world because of these acts against the Islamic State. ISIS also uses cyber warfare in their quest for an Islamic Caliphate in the areas surrounding Iraq and Syria but they also follow a violent anti western anti social agenda which includes the murder or enslavement of religious minorities, throwing homosexuals from rooftops, sexually enslaving women of religious minorities, the slaughter of children and men who do not follow their perverted version of Islam. These crimes against humanity must be stopped and if a group like Anonymous is willing to fight these blood thirsty barbarians i say more power to them.

Philosopher: to quote Murray Bookchin “Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.” ― Murray Bookchin


Murray Bookchin is saying that he has seen through our long history humanity's worst traits and the destruction we bring upon ourselves. He may been an anarchist and against what he believed were the powerful few who ruled over the majority but even he would never have advocated for violence against the world governments like ISIS is doing today. Groups like Anonymous seem to follow more closely with Bookchin's philosophy than ISIS.