Whyweprotest.net, the activist faction of Anonymous, the collective entity that exists as the sort of summa cum laude reductio absurdum of all that Web 1.0 was, is running a secure site for news and communication and distributed denial of service attacks in support of protesters in Iran.
I suppose this is what the world looks like when the hackers become more aware of systemic social issues. If all the energy, technology and networks that have heretofore been directed at pranking corporations and distributing media of dubious aesthetic value were to be instead channeled toward social change… I don’t even know what to call it, but it should be interesting.
Update: You can Digg it here.
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