Brian Watson

I'm an analyst at Union Square Ventures. I like indie hip-hop.
I split my time between Brooklyn and the internet.
Posts tagged hacking society
“ By design, these are sit-ins: Participants illegally occupy the space of their target. And they take personal responsibility for the consequences. ”

Yochai Benkler on Anonymous, Hacks of Valor | Foreign Affairs

“Anonymous demonstrates one of the new core aspects of power in a networked, democratic society: Individuals are vastly more effective and less susceptible to manipulation, control, and suppression by traditional sources of power than they were even a decade ago.”

(via fred-wilson)