“We Are Legion” attempts to document the ideology and methods of the hacktivist group known as “Anonymous.”
Years ago, an attempt by the Church of Scientology to censor embarrassing footage of Tom Cruise led viewers of an American imageboard called 4Chan to fire back.
It wasn’t yet a political crusade with much hard ideological weight, but the battle against the church’s litigiousness made one thing clear: Anonymous wanted a society with radically more transparency.
Years later, they would unite with “fourth estate” organization WikiLeaks, as it faced financial and logistical embargoes from corporate giants, Visa and Amazon.com.
