Articles by Deanna Zandt
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Legitimate Civil Disobedience: WikiLeaks and the Layers of Backlash
Deanna Zandt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Anonymous launched a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack against the websites of the companies that took away people’s rights to support a political organization [PayPal, Master Charge, Amazon.] Many, myself included, consider DDoS in this context to be much like a sit-in in the offline world. The point of a sit-in is to render a building/room/service unusable for a temporary period of time. Sit-ins aren’t “legal”– you get arrested, and most activists who participate in them know this ahead of time and prepare for it…. Most of the time, it’s a misdemeanor charge, and you’re issued an ACD.
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