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This Pearltree will probably disappear.

(H)ac(k)tivism will be a far better PT to describe Anon's philosophy, wich is from Hacktivism and Activism culture.

Meanwhile, pearls that don't have related sections to it for now will be stocked here.

PHILOWEB 2010 » Programme de PhiloWeb 2010 (version française) Vers une philosophie du Web. 16 Octobre 2010, Amphi Gestion Sorbonne 8h15-8h30 : Introduction Alexandre Monnin I. Présidence : Bert Bos (W3C) 8h30-9h15 : Les ontologies du Web sont-elles des formalisations de conceptualisations préexistantes, ou l’occasion d’inventer de nouveaux concepts ? 9h15-10h00 : Le déplacement de l’ontologie, des entités aux opérations, Pierre Livet (Université Aix-Marseille I) 10h00-10h15 : Pause II. Présidence : Alexandre Monnin (Université Panthéon – Sorbonne, Paris 1) 10h15-11h00 : Qu’est-ce qu’un objet numérique ?

11h00-11h45 : Les URIs sont-elles bien des noms ? 11h45-12h30 : Intelligence Artificielle contre Intelligence Collective: la filiation cachée de la Philosophie du Web, Harry Halpin (Université d’Edimbourg & W3C) 12h30-14h00 : Déjeuner III. Présidence : Freddy Limpens (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) 14h00-14h30 : Présentation du Web de données, Henry Story 14h30-15h15 : Webmarks : pour une approche contextuelle de la référence en ligne, Nicolas Delaforge IV. V. The Temporary Autonomous Zone. 01-04: Convictions of an Anonymous Legion. Unless the sources of the DDoS attacks being carried out by Anonymous are identified and stopped, there seems to be no end in sight for their deluge of operations. These 'AnonOps' are presented as global outreach operations of sorts, aimed at assisting individuals and organizations subjected to persecution by governments and other institutions aiming to silence free expression and dissent.

The Tunisian people are perceived by Anonymous to be in need of global support and the same can be said of Wikileaks. In particular, the consensus seems to be that governments and other powerful bodies have chosen to pursue Julian Assange and his collaborators for having exposed crimes committed by those same institutions. Whether the Anonymous group can succeed in its attempts to raise awareness of these issues and to discourage censorship hangs on the question of whether its members can be stopped.

How likely is it that Anonymous members will be identified prosecuted? New Humanist (Rationalist Association) - discussing humanism, rationalism, atheism and free thought. It's interesting to see that a group of hackers calling themselves "Anonymous" have launched attacks on Visa and Mastercard, in what they say is an act of revenge for the companies' refusal to take payments on behalf of the controversial Wikileaks site. The hackers, as part of what they are calling "Operation Payback", launched DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks against the sites and succeeded in disrupting some of their online services, although a statement from Mastercard said "There is no impact on our cardholders' ability to use their cards for secure transactions globally.

" Anonymous have threatened to target other companies that have withheld their services from Wikileaks – the payment service Paypal stopped transactions for the site last week and has experienced DDoS attacks – and have suggested they might attack Twitter, alleging that it has censored the hashtag #WikiLeaks, although this has been denied by the social networking site. "This is an interesting question. The Ethics of the DDoS Protest. One consequence of WikiLeaks leak is that it has been cut off from its main sources of acquiring money. Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal have all stopped doing business with WikilLeaks.

WikiLeak’s bank, PostFinance, has also stopped doing business with the organization. In response a group of “hackers” known as “Anonymous” have launched Operation Payback. This operation involves launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the web sites of the companies in question. Put a bit roughly, DDoS attacks work by overwhelming a site with traffic so that the site is greatly slowed or even forced to shut down. To use a somewhat inaccurate analogy, it is like crowding the entrance to a business so that customers cannot get in. One factor that makes this DD0S attack stand out is that it is supposed to be a political protest. For the sake of the discussion, I will assume that the campaign is actually an act of protest and not merely an act of mischief using WikiLeaks as an excuse. The Philosophy of Anonymous.

I. Basic Principles of Anonymous Anonymous has received fairly bad publicity in the past. Although it is not that we care, in fact all the negativity that surrounds us actually made us stronger, in other words, we can turn just about anything into comedy. Take the first Faux News investigation on us for example. For such a short segment that clearly described us as domestic terrorists, about 30 things mentioned in that report ended up becoming memes. This comes to show that Anonymous is perfectly immune to fear, and even worse, we want someone to fight us.

Anonymous is not a gang of hackers on steroids. But why do we go picking on other websites for our own enjoyment? II. Historically, Anonymous' targets have had one or more of the following properties: 1. Consider the Church of Scientology. 1. They pursue frivolous "copyright infringement" claims to ridiculous lengths, trying to remove and all data that does not present the Church of Scientology in a positive light. III. IV. V.