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The Guy Fawkes mask (also known as the V for Vendetta mask or Anonymous mask) is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes (the best-known member of the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London on 5 November 1605) created by illustrator David Lloyd for the 1982–1989 graphic novel V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore with ...
Jun 14, 2013 · The mask was first used by Anonymous in 2008 at the Project Chanology protest - a march on the Church of Scientology. The protest was a response to the church’s attempt to remove internet video clips of an interview with celebrity Scientologist, Tom Cruise.
Feb 17, 2015 · The mask you see worn at Anonymous protests is called a Guy Fawkes mask, so named for a seventeenth-century Briton who infamously attempted to bomb the House of Lords. He was planning to...
May 14, 2021 · What is now popularly known as the Anonymous mask is the creation of English illustrator David Lloyd. V for Vendetta, a comic series written by Alan Moore and Lloyd, tells the story of the masked and mysterious V, an anti-establishment figure who fights back against a totalitarian regime.
Nov 5, 2015 · ANONYMOUS. The hacktivist collective Anonymous popularized these masks in 2008 when it launched Project Chanology, a movement targeting the Church of Scientology after the church tried to...
Feb 26, 2022 · Anonymous is an international group of activist hackers (known as ‘hacktivists’) primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, institutions, and big...
Nov 13, 2019 · The Guy Fawkes mask popularised by the hacker collective Anonymous and the Occupy movements has become synonymous with 21st-century protest. Anytime a protest springs up, there is someone...
Dec 8, 2011 · The need to remain anonymous at live protests led the group to adopt its now-familiar mask depicting a highly stylized visage of Guy Fawkes, an early-17 th-Century British figure who was...
Nov 4, 2015 · For a faceless hacking collective, Anonymous has a distinctive signature mask. Curling black eyebrows and moustachios sit on a smiling white face, and the Million Mask March on 5 November will...
Nov 5, 2014 · The mustached white face with a devious smile and rosy cheeks that has come to symbolize rebellion was first widely utilized by Anonymous in 2008 when the leaderless group came out from behind their computer screens to protest alleged Internet censorshipfrom the Church of Scientology. Behind the Mask: Guy Fawkes Day.
