Facebook's intrusive content-manipulation farkery aimed at mining its users for commercial data is certainly no less of a social harm. Fortunately, in five years probably most people won't even bother mentioning Facebook anymore.

But they're not the good guys in this. There aren't any good guys in this.

uksocal: Wait, the article said that using "shock spam" isn't anonymous' style? Goatse isn't shocking anymore?

I think they're making the distinction between the general members of Anon who, although aren't above silly vendettas against toy-stealing white trash or people who accuse them of having done goofed, usually tend to stick to social & political issues. FB spamming is more the style of bored 4Channers who got tired of trolling Fark, Reddit, & Digg while 4Chan was down earlier this week.