08 June 2012

Beyond Anonymous: Shit people say on Internet piracy

9 June is going to be a big day in India, for all concerned with internet regulation, censorship and the current attacks on file-sharing.

The International Hacker group Anonymous has called for marched protests in 16 Indian cities, to demand a free and open Internet.............

They have already started launching Denial of Service attacks and taking down websites owned by the Indian government to express their displeasure about the recent regulation of the internet....

There are hordes of people who think of them as the NewAge Mutant Ninja Hackers, who are protecting our digital worlds from being clamped down. There are others who paint them as the Big Bad Wolf who huffed and puffed and will blow our houses away...............

You might be sympathetic, suspicious or scared of the emergence of such a ‘crowd vigilante’....................

These are concepts with very material realities that affect our everyday functioning and require not only better policies but also a more nuanced public discourse...............

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