In my personal opinion, I always felt that anonymous itself was a fan of “V for Vendetta” because the premise of the movie about “Anarchism (as a real political philosophy) vs. Facism”.

People go to Anonymous websites because they want to be free of the constraints of conversational etiquette that comes from having your name attached to what you say. At these websites, you can post and say whatever you want. You are free to be who you’re always told not to be, because there are no consequences for what you say. The anonymity gives you enormous personal freedom in that sense.

So Anonymous itself tends to be made up of people who are strong proponents of the “Personal freedom” loving political philosophy.

I think this is also evidenced by the fact that there’s a strong libertarian following in the group at least there was before Ron Paul stepped down)

Right now, IRL there is no mainstream political party that’s closer to those beliefs than Libertarians.

And when you really look at it like that, No political philosophy loves individual freedoms moar than anarchism.

Anonymous loves V for Vendetta because that movie is about showing that personal freedoms are moar powerful and important than government control. Something most anon agree with.

It certainly gets moar complex, especially when you throw in the idea of EFG.

EFG is an almaglam of the various ideas of anonymous. He doesn’t really represent political philosophy the way V does, so he’s moar of a comedic mascot.

I don’t think people wore those masks during the protests because they wanted to look like EFG, they wore them to recognize one another, and to show unity with their /b/rothers for their like minded ideals of personal freedom.