As Anonymous and 4Chan go, they are a force to be reckoned with. Members of 4Chan and Anonymous have pulled off some of the most daring raids in Internet history. From changing the Time magazine “Most Influential” poll to reflect the founder of 4Chan Chris Poole, as being the top pick, to numerous raids against Disney Stars and other high profile individuals.

Members of 4Chan and Anonymous have brought people to justice, mostly animal abusers and the occasional pedophile. They have supplied Iranian Government Proxy info during the Iranian protests. Also, who could ever forget their on going war against the Church of Scientology?

4Chan and Anonymous have their own set of rules they live by. These are the coveted Rules of the Internet. They have no leader, no set hierarchy, and no membership fees.  Some content does require a 4chan Gold Account to see, but we’ll get into that later.

4Chan and Anonymous does have some members who leak info and destroy plots and schemes. The people are called Internet White Knights. 4Chan can’t stand them most of the time.  A lot of times White Knights will step in and ruin a perfectly good raid, they will leak the story or plans to a news source, then everything goes downhill from there.

The latest such issue happened with the popular Tech blog known as TechCrunch.  YouTube account Lukeywes1234 had been banned. Now there usually isn’t a big deal about an account being banned on YouTube, however the account belonged to a kid that 4Chan had labeled a God. The user Lukeywes1234 as it turns out, was to young to have a YouTube account so, in accordance with their Terms of Service, YouTube banned the kids account. 4Chan didn’t care for excuses, in their minds, they had been wronged, deprived of LULZ, they set up their master plan.

So today is officially YouTube Porn day. The plan was to flood YouTube with a ton of porn submissions. Starting around 6 o’clock GMT. 4Chan has pulled this off in the past, and had a good laugh doing it. What makes it different this time is, a White Knight had stepped in and leaked the story to TechCrunch. The jig was up, 4Chan’s plans were blown. Now YouTube had time to get admins in place to respond to the porn flood.

While TechCrunch is a very popular Tech blog and the writer if the article MG Siegler, I am sure is a professional writer, I do have some advice.  If TechCrunch could have done more investigating, and let the drama unfold, they would have had a bigger story. One of the rules of the Internet according to Anonymous is Rule# 32. “Lurk Moar, it’s never enough.” Had the TechCrunch writer lurked, he could have taken screen grabs, had more links to the hilarity and seen first hand how both sides handled the issue. But hey it’s TechCrunch. They are known for jumping on a story without ALL the facts and throwing caution to the wind.

Loren brings a “No BS” look into the TSA / Blogger issue regarding Steven Frischling, and calls out Mike Arrington from Tech Crunch. Steven Frischling is a blogger who received an anonymous tip from a GMail contact about the new TSA Screening Procedures according to Wired Magazine. Not to long after he blogged about it, the Department of Homeland Security was knocking at his door. He cooperated fully and handed over his laptop, under threat of going to jail.  However, Mike Arrington thinks Mr. Frischling displayed no back bone.

Loren has a great point and I had to re-post this. The original is found on 1938media. Loren has given permission to Social Media Rage for reposts, and I gotta say this is one of his most powerful points.

Check out Loren and his crew at 1938media.com

Yes, a Seth Godin action figure. While I have no problem with Seth or what the man does, I say, if actions figures are to be made, make some serious action figures.

1. The 1938 Media playset. Complete with Loren and Michelle Feldman. It even comes with the Shel Isreal puppet, and camera on a tripod.

2. Jason Calcanis complete with bulldogs Taurus and Fondue. The dogs actually salivate on everything!

3. Gary Vanerchuk talking doll. Pull the cord and he says memorable quotes like: “  Crush It!” “You gotta work your ass off if you wanna make money!” and “Merlot never did anything to anybody!”

4. The Mike Arrington. Mike has a removable Tech Crunch T-Shirt and even comes with safe room and secret hideaway.

5. The Reg Saddler aka Zaibatsu. Triple monitors, and beer in hand.

6. The MrBabyman with iPhone and Macbook and a complete list of his private RSS feeds. (Requires extra shipping and handling for a printed copy of RSS feeds)

7. Chris Brogan and Twitter followers playset. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery and 7 months of production time for followers.

8. Jeremy Schoemaker (Shoemoney) Comes with $20million Google AdSense paycheck.

9. Leo Laporte, complete with TWiT sound set. He actually talks! Press a button on his back and he screams: “Screw you Arrington!”

So these are my ideas. Anyone got an idea for an action figure? Let us know at SocialMediarage [at] gmail [dot] com, or leave a comment.