What are Anonymous ?

 Anonymous are a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities. A website nominally associated with the group describes it as "an Internet gathering" with "a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives".

Anonymous originated in 2003 on the immageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain Anonymous members (known as "Anons") can be distinguished in public by the wearing of guy wearing flawless mask in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film V for Vendatta. However this may not always be the case, as some of the collective prefer to instead cover their face without using the well-known mask as a disguise.

In its early form, the concept was adopted by a decentralized online community acting in cordinated manner usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment, or often referred to as "lulz". Beginning with 2008's project chanology a series of protests, pranks, and hacks targeting the crunch

Of sciencentology the Anonymous collective became increasingly associated with collaborative hacktivism on a number of issues internationally. Individuals claiming to align themselves with Anonymous undertook protests and other actions (including direct action) in retaliation against copyright-focused campaigns by motion picture and recording industry trade associations. Later targets of Anonymous hacktivism included government agencies of the U.S., Israel, Tunisia, Uganda, and others; the Islamic State of Iraq and leveant; copyright protection agencies; the West Boro Bapist church; and corporations such as Paypal, Mastercard, Visa, and Sony. Anons have publicly supported WikiLeaks and the Occupy Movement

Dozens of people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyber attacks, in countries including the US, UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, India and Turkey. Evaluations of the group's actions and effectiveness vary widely. Supporters have called the group "freedom fighters" and digital

Robin  Hoods While Critis have described them as a "cyber lynch-mob" or "Cyber Terrorist" in 2012

time called Anonymous one of the "100 most influence people in world".