Anonymous to the Governments of the World - Web Censorship

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of meat and mineral, we are from the Internet. The new home of social consciousness. On behalf of the future of this culture, I ask you of the obsolete past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we ever likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks; anonymity. I declare the global social space we are building together to be naturally independent of the tyrannies and injustices you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any real methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

Governments derive their judicial powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. The rapid growth of government censorship of the Web has not escaped our notice. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim to further impose unjust restrictions on our civil freedoms and rights. We cannot allow this. We consider this your formal warning, that if you continue to impose unjust control on us, you will meet with disaster.

We are anonymous, we are legion,

We do not forgive, and we do not forget.

Expect us.

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[vegito4690]

The sad thing is at the moment the governments probably only lol at us, i hope one day that they will regret that, and one day they shall

[Warsie]

This is a modified version of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace made in the 1990s.

[basletum]

@Noctalunis "Educate yourselves before jumping on the band wagon for this cause"

Perhaps you should educate yourself?

[basletum]

@Txsray "because any government can trace any electronic communication back to its source"

U new?

[Txsray]

@LunaticPixel

You are anonymous

You are a cult

You do not impress

and you do not intimidate

united by stupidity

and divided bi-polar

[Txsray]

Oh my god. Computer generated SIMS are giving ultimatums to the governments of the world. They must be powerful because any government can trace any electronic communication back to its source. So obviously they are better armed than the military. The only other explanation would be that they are in collaboration with the governments in some sort of scam. And that just couldn't be, could it?

[MissEVitale]

they will regret one day because eternity is not as long as one would believe...

[lynnbee666]

Electronic trails of any renegade action should be considered in every detail.

[LunaticPixel]

WE ARE ANONYMOUS

WE ARE LEGION

WE DO NOT FORGIVE

WE DO NOT FORGET

UNITED BY ONE

DIVIDED BY ZERO

THIS IS GOING IN THE HISTORY BOOKS BABY

WE'RE GOING TO TELL THIS STORY TO OUR KIDS

[WillDrowned]

where is master chief when you need him u.u

[chiefakachips]

I love these people

[Noctalunis]

How does this help the world? When you have enemys, you must have your secrets. When your enemys know your secrets you are vulnerable. When you are vulnerable you will lash out in defense of yourself. By exposing the US governments secrects all wikileaks is doing is tiping the scales of balance in the favor of the enemys of the US which ultimately in the end will jepordize the lives of US citizens. No government is perfect. Educate yourselves before jumping on the band wagon for this cause