“Threats & Opportunities for a Faster and Stronger Web” - @albertwenger’s talk from Velocity 2012. Albert lays out a framing for thinking about the value of the open, innovative web, and points out some of the threats that we’re currently facing. Including plugs for the Internet Defense League and /awesome.
(Source: youtube.com)
“ 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)
