RE: WildWeb article (21/9/99)

["Grugnog" <grugnog@tao.ca>]

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Erm, the article didn't say anything about EDT...
Incidentally you might not have realised that EDT had (IIRC) some funding
from RTmark, so you are making a bit of a contradiction if you say you
prefer RTmark projects to EDT (an RTmark project) :p

That aside, I agree about the RTmark work, although I find their
non-hacktivist work (e.g. Barbie L.F.) much more inspirational than most of
their most recent net based actions (setting up fake websites dissing
polititians). IMO they have missed the point, something like that only works
as a media 'stunt' - the problem is that it has been done before and it just
isn't original enough to capture the imagination of the front line net press
(e.g. wired) and spread from there.

- Grug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: worker-hacktivism@tao.ca [mailto:worker-hacktivism@tao.ca]On
> Behalf Of Chuck0
> Sent: 23 September 1999 20:48
> To: hacktivism@tao.ca
> Subject: Re: WildWeb article (21/9/99)
>
>
> [: hacktivism :]
>
> Ack! More crap journalism. Somebody must have fed this person a line
> about EDT. Don't believe the hype!
>
> I find the work being done by RTmark.com to be more inspiring and
> effective than the liberalism of EDT.
>
> Chuck0
>
> Grugnog wrote:
> >
> > [: hacktivism :]
> >
> > Not a bad article, considering the general spew by most of the media.
> > - Grug
> >
> > http://www.wildweb.com/theshow/215/hacktivism/index.html
> >
> > Hacktivism
> >
> > Are they activists fighting for just causes or computer geeks
> with too much
> > time on their hands? Hacktivism is the wired way to make a
> statement, but
> > some hackers feel that sitting in your living room just isn't
> the same as
> > sitting in front of a tank.


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