Ethics of Digital Direct Action - Gabriella Coleman September 2011
I felt like this article was one of the first articles we have read that really sparked a contemporary view on the ways in which technology affects our world in a very informative manner.
- Does anyone else in the class know much about the idea, culture and methods of a DDoS?
- Do the FBI fear another Egypt?
- Does the FBI's lack of differentiation between hacking and DDoSing reflect their lack of progressive growth with the times?
- Are people (her audience), particularly the ones in this class, aware of the extent of the stigma associated with 4chan? I think, at least for me, it really taints my view on this group.
- What do they mean by trolling the Church of Scientology? What did this entail?
- Do you think the group "Anonymous" was really egged on into existence by those participants of 4chan who have a very strong tendency towards mischief?
- It is pretty striking how much we rely on the infrastructure of the internet and how much we (literally America as a collective) entrust to the idea that "no one has cracked our defenses yet". (Sorry not a question)
- Going off of the above, doesn't this just emphasize the separation between those who control technology and those who don't?
- And now going off of the above that is going off of the above, doesn't it seem as if those able to wage war of this kind excludes the already less fortunate? Its as if they will soon not even belong to the same race - how terrifying!
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