A clip from WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists.
UPDATE – PayPal 14 court date moved on court’s initiative to Feb. 2.
The “Paypal 14″ are back in court. They are accused of participating in DDoS attacks on Paypal when Paypal – in conjunction with Visa and Mastercard – cut off financial services to Wikileaks.
We have been following the Paypal 14 cases closely and today’s court date is one of many the group will go through before anything is decided. The outcome of the trial will define not just how we see DDoS but the larger question of the right to protest online.
Here Stanley Cohen, the attorney for Mercedes Haefer, talks over what they are going through and their stance on DDoS.
On December 17th, 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouaziz set himself on fire to protest the near daily harassment he was suffering at the hands of corrupt Tunisian police. His death sparked a maelstrom of civil resistance and public protest that eventually forced then President Zine Ben Ali to step down after 23 years in power.
Bouaziz’s desperate act ignited the Arab Spring. It remains one of the most transformative protest movements of our time and a year ago it was on the verge of exploding even further in Egypt. Anonymous, teaming up with other hacktivist groups like Telecomix, joined the resistance – at times armed with internet tools you haven’t seen since the 90s.
A clip from the film WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists
While the film doesn’t cover the Occupy movement directly, we have been exploring the role Anonymous has played in Occupy since the beginning and following events closely. Below is a collection of images we’ve taken over the last few months at various Occupy protests.
