Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
No, that is not someone’s clever response to the attacks on WikiLeaks. It was written fourteen years ago.
The article by John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation was quoted by Operation Payback which has done some great things recently! And Barlow says, “The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.” The MasterCard story of course runs deeper.
Operation Payback is the brainchild of pro-piracy hacker group 4chan, which incidentally has a Bollywood connection!
KAFILA - COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006 
This is heady stuff for those of us who have the knowhow to operate the system (and yet I often wonder how adept we really are). But what about the overwhelming, hapless and helpless majority on the other side of the Digital Divide? Who speaks for them?
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“Pro-piracy hacker group 4chan”, eh? Please be willing to read and educate yourself before passing along your uninformed opinion.
http://www.4chan.org/faq#what4chan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
*Unbelievable*
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