&quot;Hello citizens of the Internet. We are Anonymous.&quot;&mdash;Anonymous, 2011
&quot;Six months after being labeled &amp;#8216;the Internet hate machine,&amp;#8217; Anonymous had legions of followers in&nbsp;the real world&mdash;not just geeks and hackers hammering at their keyboards&mdash;who were seizing on the group&rsquo;s name, on its ethic of anonymity and concomitant iconography. That evening, men in Guy Fawkes masks and black suits with signs announcing &amp;#8216;We Are the Internet&amp;#8217; could be seen on cable-news shows around the world.&amp;#8221;&mdash;Gabriella Coleman, from &amp;#8220;Our Weirdness is Free&quot;&nbsp;published in&nbsp;Issue 15&nbsp;of Triple Canopy. Coleman tackles the logic of Anonymous&mdash;online army, agent of chaos, seeker of justice&mdash;and explains the ways of the mask.&nbsp;