Comments on: Hacktivism – Our gateway to freedom of expression?

By: rappersdelight

rappersdelight — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:10:33 +0000

China had some guts to try to attack a U.S. Company. I think that we will stop future hacks.

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By: Esra'a

Esra'a — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:44:18 +0000

Sue, hacking and hacktivism are VERY different things! You are thinking about hacking for the sake of your own personal gains, or hacking for no apparent reason. I am talking about the act, an “ism,” of a very specific and different type of hacking and that’s the political kind… getting away from oppressive regimes, etc, by way of hacktivism. So it has nothing to do with whether or not it’s ethical – and everything to do with the fact that it’s a last resort to protecting free speech! The article had nothing to do with hacking and everything to do with filters by oppressive regimes and how we can use technology to maintain our basic rights to freedom of expression.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:34:20 +0000

Esra – hacking is unethical – remember the old saying – means do not justify ends. Hacking is children’s way to get what they want. Instead of hacking systems to rig votes why not to stay ethical and say: I simply do not wish to contribute in this voting system because I feel that those who work on it can manipulate data. You can ask for stricter measures to ensure that no data will be changed, or else refuse to use computer based voting. But hacking will still be unethical.

By: Mideast Youth - Thinking ahead » When activists fall foul of China’s police state

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:02:34 +0000

[...] If this isn’t a powerful statement, I don’t know what is. I just wish that we could do something about this other than sit around and sign petitions all day long. It’s times like these that I wish that the trio-hacktivists can finish their jobs more quickly, so that people can at least have some freedom within the internet, which isn’t much, but it’s still something. This entry is filed under Esra’a (Bahrain). You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply [...]