[RoboPlumber]

While this was certainly illegal, I think it's hard to say that it was malicious. This has essentially become a (somewhat one-sided) prank war. If they intended to deplatform or suppress Shia, they could have done something much more mean-spirited than photobomb his video streams and snatch his flag.

[ctrl-j]

> This has essentially become a (somewhat one-sided) prank war.

Isn't there another term for a one-sided prank war? I think it's called harassment or something? Combined with theft and vandalism... I can see why they prefer to be anonymous.

It's hard to meme from jail.

[RoboPlumber]

I bet you were fun in college. Good-spirited pranks don't warrant jail time.

[R_haterade]

This irreverent spirit is exactly why trump won.

Compare his campaign messaging with some of the messaging out of the clinton machine and you will see how deep it goes.

Consider Trump's 1) Make America Great Again (subtext: we've been letting the establishment make america not-great) 2) Build a wall (subtext: I'm going to do something audacious and unpopular and there's not a damn thing they can do to stop me)

Clinton came back with several messages beyond the core "I'm with her" and none of them stuck, because they were the sort of thing you'd hear the teacher's pet say. Nobody likes a teacher's pet--they're no fun at parties.

[ctrl-j]

> Good-spirited pranks don't warrant jail time.

Who determines what is "good-spirited"?

I've been a part of many prank wars. You know when they stopped being fun and ended up getting people in trouble? When one side stopped enjoying it. I don't think the receiving team in this case is enjoying the prank. Which just makes it mean-spirited and low class.

Anon is just being a bag of dicks in this case, which means they either stop, or should get in legal trouble.

[bitwize]

Yeah, yeah. Tell it to the judge.

[glenstein]

When deciding whether or not something is malicious, I don't think "they could have done something even worse" is the standard you judge it by. I think you're definitely right that they could have done worse but I'd argue it's already pretty malicious as it is.

[threeseed]

It's the very definition of malicious.

You can't just doxx, trespass and then steal from someone.

[empath75]

It's funny how anti-doxxing the chan people are when it's directed at them, but they cheerfully do it against their enemies.

And let's not forget that along with relatively minor stuff like this, they'll be getting death threats and swatting attempts for the foreseeable future.