“We Will Be Heard”
January 29th, 2008 | researchmaterial
One of the things fascinating me about these video communications from Anonymous — aside from the obvious, an anonymous organisation of internet users communicating only through YouTube, which has implications and resonance of its own — is the sense of foreboding they manage to create. Contrast that to, say, the Yippies and the retarded gibberish they spouted every time they got near a camera. There’s a sense of control here, and, clearly, of threat.
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[…] Warren Ellis wrote an interesting post today on “We Will Be Heardâ€Here’s a quick excerpt One of the things fascinating me about these video communications from Anonymous — aside from the obvious, an anonymous organisation of internet users communicating only through YouTube, which has implications and resonance of its own — is the sense of foreboding they manage to create. Contrast that to, say, the Yippies and the retarded gibberish they spouted every time they got near a camera. There’s a sense of control here, and, clearly, of threat. […]
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[…] first heard about this ‘Anonymous’ phenomenon on the Warren Ellis blog. They’re a group of protestors or hacktivists that have been releasing videos to Youtube and […]