The hacktivist group Anonymous recently created a political party called The Humanity Party, or THumP. Officially announced via press release on June 16, The Humanity Party wants to make some serious changes to the existing political process in the United States.
According to the party's platform, the party will not use "tactics of fear and intimidation" that some who are affiliated with Anonymous use and have used in the past to send messages to government entities and individuals. The Humanity Party says that these methods have "never worked to unite humanity" or to "promote peace."
The party also refers to itself as the "official voice of Anonymous" and said that from now forward, it would be "easy to determine whether a message that is posted on the internet, or through any other venue of social media, is authorized by the official voice of Anonymous." Unlike other video messages posted by Anonymous, The Humanity Party will use a person's voice in distorted form, rather than a machine-generated voice.
The Humanity Party said that it will not take donations, due to the corruptive power of money in government, but rather will rely on those aligned with the party to spread messages using social media.
According to The Humanity Party's press release, the group is organized around three objectives:
Throughout the lengthy video explaining the party and it's goals, the narrator lays out a vaguely utopian, adamantly nonviolent, and in some ways libertarian plan to "bring peace and goodwill" to "all humans." Despite not having monetary funds and rejecting identifiers such as gender, race, nationality, and sexuality as a part of their platform and group identity, the party considers itself to be a "viable alternative" to the existing government.
The Humanity Party did not immediately reply to Complex's request for comment.
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