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Hacktivist activities span many political ideals and issues. Freenet is a prime example of translating political thought (anyone should be able to speak) into code. Hacktivist.net is an example of hacktivism in action. Hacktivismo is an offshoot of CULT OF THE DEAD COW ; its beliefs include access to information as a basic human right. Hacktivism is a controversial term. Some argue it was coined to describe how electronic Direct Action might work toward Social Change by combining Programming skills with Critical Thinking . Others use it as practically synonymous with Malicious , Destructive acts that undermine the Security of the Internet as a Technical , Economic , and Political Platform . CONTROVERSY Some people describing themselves as hacktivists have taken to Defacing websites for political reasons, such as attacking and defacing government websites as well as web sites of groups who oppose their Ideology . Others, such as Oxblood Ruffin (the " Foreign Affairs minister" of Hacktivismo), have argued forcefully against definitions of hacktivism that include web defacements or Denial-of-service Attack s ( {Link without Title} ). Depending on who is using the term, hacktivism can be a politically constructive form of civil disobedience or an Anarchic gesture; it can signal Anticapitalist protest or commercial Protectionism ; it can denote Spammers or anti- Abortion activists, counter- Surveillance experts or Open Source advocates. Critics of hacktivism fear that the lack of a clear agenda make it a politically immature gesture, while those given to Conspiracy Theory hope to see in hacktivism an attempt to precipitate a crisis situation online. NOTABLE HACKTIVIST EVENTS
QUOTES :"...on the Internet, the code is the law." — Lawrence Lessig , Stanford Law School professor :"Expressive politics is the struggle to free what can be free from both versions of the commodity form—its totalising market form, and its bureaucratic state form."—McKenzie Wark SEE ALSO
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