Anonymous masks are made in Chinese sweatshops using exploited slave labour for capital gain.

Anonymous Responds to Accusations Regarding Masks and Hypocrisy

There's a bit of controversy surrounding the V for Vendetta masks worn by Anonymous members
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On November 6, one day after the Million Mask March that took place all over the world, The Telegraph’s Martha Gill published a blog post about how the masks worn by Anonymous members and supporters during protests are made in what appear to be sweatshops in developing countries.

Gill has highlighted that Anonymous “have been exposed as hypocrites.” That’s because Time Warner, the company that owns the rights to the “V for Vendetta” masks, makes a profit for each mask that’s sold.

This, in addition to the fact that the masks appear to be made in “sweatshops,” goes against what Anonymous stands for.

Anonymous has published a statement in response to The Telegraph's post.

 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/marthagill/100244704/anonymous-have-been-exposed-as-hypocrites-who-use-sweatshops-watch-them-try-to-wriggle-out-of-it/

“The truth is, Gill based her article on a photograph taken by Getty photographer Buda Mendes at the Condal Masks Factory in São Goncalo. This factory is actually a 55-year-old family-owned workshop, where artists produced an estimated 200,000 masks yearly,” the hacktivists wrote.

“Most of them are designed by Catalan artist Sergi Arbusa y Amoros and are sold for the annual Carnival in Brazil, which is attended by more than 3 million people in Rio de Janeiro every year,” they added.

“Frankly, it’s sad that a photograph of dark-skinned people at work is immediately associated with forced labor.”

Anonymous representatives are also displeased with Gill’s statement about Anonymous being difficult to reach online. The hacktivists say they’ve tried to reach out to her via a private message, but they didn’t get a response.

Anonymous admits that Warner Bros makes a lot of money from the sales of masks. However, they highlight the fact that @YourAnonNews, one of the most important Anonymous-related Twitter accounts, has advised Million Mask March participants not to purchase the masks.

Take a look at the complete response from Anonymous to The Telegraph’s post.  http://pastebin.com/sK6Zi3EM

The guy who seeded this story is Chris Blattman who self describes as...

"Chris Blattman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science & International Affairs at Columbia University, where he teaches on the political economy of development, African politics, applied statistics, and the roots of war and violence. He has also been faculty at Yale University, and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School. Dr. Blattman’s research examines the causes and consequences of poverty and violence. Much of his work employs panel surveys and field experiments in poor and conflict-affected states. He has ongoing studies in Liberia, Uganda, and Ethiopia."

So he will be an American professor who teaches that anything that isn't white is poor, and being poor are in desperate need of being saved by the IMF. He will study the causes of violence and of course, that will always entail coming to the conclusion that a "lack of democracy" and "lack of good sound business practice" is responsible.

He will teach from on high the benefits of non-violence, but will screach like a demented owl when the US government doesn't violently intervene whenever he wants them to.

Wherever he goes, he will be working alongside military and covert specialists in conflict zones all in the interests of completing his important work.

Some of his research articles are:

“How to promote order and property rights under weak rule of law? An experiment in changing dispute resolution behavior through community education“

“Does entrepreneurship empower women? Evidence from Uganda”, with Jeannie Annan, Eric Green, and Julian Jamison"

“Building institutions at the micro-level: Long-run evidence from a conflict resolution program in Liberia”, with Alexandra Hartman and Robert Blair"

He's basically an imperialist calling it by the name academia. An apologist if you like.

Anonymous are right, to publish the picture purely on the basis that all his readers will immediately assume that those people are working in a sweat shop, is an incredibly stupid, dumb and arrogantly obsequious thing to do.

This guy isn't cut out for planet Earth let alone academia!

As for this REALLY STUPID troll sniping at Anonymous, I guess all protestors who attend all demos always check their trainers weren't made in sweatshops? Really?

The keyboards the trolls use to post this bullshit are made in factories in China!

The camera used to take the photo was probably made in a Chinese factory you plank

Talk about missing the point