re:publica 2011 - Gabriella Coleman - Geek Politics and Anonymous

Over the last three years, Anonymous went from Internet pranking and trolling to a narrowly focused protest movement against the Church of Scientology to one that has now emerged in more general registers to protest censorship, attracting many geeks and hackers to its ranks, some who have entered the arena of politics for the first time.
In this talk I will examine the transformations and tactics of the digitally-based protest movement—Anonymous— to examine various political and ethical facets of their operations, including their rhizomatic social organization, the ways they enact an ethics around their denial of service attacks, the spectacle they generate, and the ways in which they are rooted in and parlay liberal commitments such as anonymity and free speech.

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[Killerschildkroete]

I hate those activist moralfucktards destroying our precious Internet Hate Machine. The Scientology thing was a stupid idea.

[LockupSean]

The Anglo-American empire wanted to invade the following countries since many years: Syria, Libya and Iran

Anonymous gives a helping hand by attacking the governments of the above countries spreading the lies of the corporate owned press at the same time. Interesting.

[sofias. orange 2]

operation payback was originally targeted against copyright companys who ddos-ed various file-sharing ressources. #btw

[hamburgninjaanon]

yes good talk, but the cut of the talk is not good

[liekmudkip]

the history since 2006 is very accurate. thanks for this talk.