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The recent cyber-attacks by Hacktivist are very bad reputation to the cause of Freedom of Speech. Don’t get me wrong - I already burned my Amazon and Paypal accounts and wrote long mails to these companies. I’m 110% pro Wikileaks. 

But the Hacktivists are damaging reputation of wikileaks, Pirate parties and REAL hackers, although I acknowledge their efforts to mirror wikileaks website worldwide.

‘With great power comes great responsibility.’ It’s also a Hacker-Phrase. Anon did not show responsibility. They have seemingly displayed very little understanding of topics like Marketing and Media and how they think and work.

I’m a pirate party member and we could possibly have hacked the moons’ servers or something. But no - such a silly idea, albeit from being criminal, never even occurred to us. Instead we engaged people on street into discussion and got 1 mio legal votes and money from the gov and credibility in the media.

It’s nice that Anon has shown the world who is a criminal and should not mess with Assange, but at the end of the day it will have changed absolutely nothing except that mass media compares credible wikileaks supporters like Noam Chomsky, Tim-Berners Lee or Tim O’Reilly or even Mark Zuckerberg with Hacktivists. The damage is big.

This one was shooting oneself in the foot.

It’s important to analyse the leaks and condemn US atrocities like inflitrating Nigeria with Shell Ops or pushing Visa and Mastercard into Russia or letting little Afghan boys do table-dance for them.

This is why the news will bring change, not the Hacktivists.

Before you can count to 3, the US will have shut down or censored mirrors and more importantly, the press. They will simply declare the cables illegal and he who prints it will be facing prison or worse Guantanamo Bay. I predict this will happen this week and the Guardian will stop releasing important atrocities that could bring up the people to call for a plebiscite that could change the US from the inside.

Arrrh I’m a pirate.

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