Terrorist Groups Debate

Discussions center on classifying activist, anarchist, Antifa, Anonymous, and other political groups as terrorist organizations, with debates over their actions, comparisons to groups like Proud Boys or ISIS, and political biases in labeling.

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csense Mar 29, 2015 View on HN

Commu-terrorists? It sounds like they're members of an Abelian terrorist group

techntoke May 21, 2020 View on HN

Terror organization who operates freely on reddit?

gnode Apr 12, 2017 View on HN

Probably some kind of anarchist group.

sacks2k Jun 9, 2020 View on HN

This group seems to be targeting left-leaning organizations and journalists. If it targeted Trumps organization, would it even be a story here on HN?

pharrington Oct 2, 2022 View on HN

Groups can do bad things. Some groups exist specifically to do bad things.

dTal Oct 11, 2016 View on HN

User catuskoti posted what appears to me to be a civil and insightful comment (reproduced below) which is now dead - as is every other comment but one by this user, ever since a flagged comment 69 days ago. Most seem civil enough. Is this evidence of a vindictive voting ring, some kind of HN penalty, or just my misalignment with the zeitgeist?As to ISIS, to what extent is this true? A friend of mine recently suggested that ISIS essentially operates like Anonymous - all it really takes to be a

crinkly Aug 15, 2025 View on HN

Let's extrapolate on a simple point because it's not so simple...A sign for a proscribed terrorist organisation, which its members are backed by a Russian plant (Fergie Chambers - now hiding in North Africa) and have damaged military aircraft, military facilities and attacked police officers with sledgehammer. Things that, in the US, you would have been shot for.The protesters could have waved any other sign around in support for the cause without any problems, as hundreds more w

stogot Sep 23, 2025 View on HN

The Biden DHS called them “loosely affiliated organizations” because they were underground. Closest analogy might be anonymous or lulz. You can see members show up to protests and carry Antifa flags, in full military gear, causing violence, etc. There are arrest videos on YouTube, and the ATF, DHS, and Florida AG went after some named members back in 2023http:/&

littlestymaar Oct 13, 2023 View on HN

I'm not sure you're helping here, given such a description also fits Hamas or drug cartels very well…

paulhauggis Feb 15, 2012 View on HN

hmm..and people here on HN say they aren't a digital terrorist group.....