How Anonymous destroyed the life of an Ebay user

The Curious Case of Adam L. Goldstein

The creature awoke, and saw before it in this arrogant, ignorant, overly litigious salesman, this one Adam Goldstein, what? A threat? An invader? A disease, perhaps? Whatever it saw in him — in his hubris and disdain — it reacted. It reacted at once, and in the only way it knows to react… with absolute, unrelenting prejudice.

I began watching this creature raise itself up to power from the very beginning, and it has been, and will no doubt continue to be, an truly terrifying and amazing sight. Across hidden chat rooms and forums the singular entities that form the collective whole began to move. To organize. It’s feelers reaching out, testing, prodding, digging. It’s poisoned fangs and glittering claws sharpening themselves against the grindstone.

And then, poor fool, the man who had lived his life with confidence that he could intimidate anyone and everyone who stood in his way made his first, terrible mistake. He lashed out, he became self righteous and tried to fight a force of nature

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