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DDoS strikes me as a violent form of protest. Has anyone started a non-violent protest (offline or digitally) for WikiLeaks? EDIT: Rethinking my statement on
by tkahnoski 16y ago
DDoS strikes me as a violent form of protest.
Has anyone started a non-violent protest (offline or digitally) for WikiLeaks?
EDIT: Rethinking my statement on DDoS as violent. I am still interested in knowing if there are other non-DDoS protests surrounding WikiLeaks.
- lallysingh 16y agoWhat sort were you thinking? Perhaps a distributed candlelight vigil? I'm a Ghandhi-ist myself, so I'm fascinated.
- AndyKelley 16y agoSounds incredibly boring. Just saying.
- natnat 16y agoI don't think DDoS is violent at all. It doesn't physically hurt anyone, and it doesn't damage the property of people who aren't involved in censoring Wikileaks. Nonviolent protest doesn't need to just be complaining. Everyone does that, and it doesn't get anything done unless you're a millionaire. Passive resistance is generally economically disruptive to whoever it's targeted at. DDoS attacks are not all that different, conceptually, from sit-ins. You're not destroying their server or deleting their code. You are simply putting yourself in the way so that no one else can use their website. It's not a nice thing to do, it interferes with their ability to do business, and it's illegal, but it's not violent.
- tkahnoski 16y agoThe comparison to sit-ins is an interesting case I hadn't considered until reading further comments. On a technical level DDoS certainly seems equivalent to a sit-in. I will have to think on this a bit more.
- alextgordon 16y agoIllegal? Certainly. Immoral? Debatable. Violent? No.