http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/146187235.ht...
by Joel Brinkley, Hearst Visiting Professional in Residence in the Department of Communication at Stanford University.
Despite their "righteous" self-claim, hacking those amateur sites are really uncalled for and they are still a bunch of criminals no different. It will NOT change the fact that government will continue do censorships and more countries will follow shoes to do more of them. It's sad but true. FYI, a lot of the blocking & filtering are done on the Internet backbone routers made by Cisco. Worst yet, Tor is not effective any more as seen on yesterday's HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3793320
I doubt most people operating under the Anonymous banner are all that different than the general population and just don't give a damn about what happens in China, or anywhere outside their back yard for that matter. But lulz, that's just awesome.
Hacking a bunch of sites and displaying a message is the most effective way of spreading a message to a lot of ordinary middle class Chinese people I can think of. It's not like you can put up big banners everywhere.