{"id":364,"date":"2010-12-08T22:53:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T22:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=364"},"modified":"2010-12-08T22:53:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T22:53:52","slug":"new-media-power-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"New Media Power, redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/babbage\/2010\/12\/more_wikileaks\">Anonymous<\/a>, the hacker agglomerate that gathers on 4chan messageboards but that remains anonymous, online, and multiple has launched<a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/08\/operation-payback-attacks-visa\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\"> Operation Payback<\/a>, and now that Visa.com has gone down under a denial of service attack, now that the companies are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2010\/12\/anonymous_and_cyber_protest\"> losing money and business <\/a>because individuals can&#8217;t access their websites, should we declare that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/12\/09\/3088573.htm?site=thedrum\">new media power wins the day<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Or should we instead notice that new media power works the other way around as well:\u00a0 the WikiLeaks group has been booted off Facebook, and the Visa situation was sparked by Ebay&#8217;s PayPal cutting WikiLeaks off.<\/p>\n<p>David Weinberger argues we should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/2010\/12\/08\/standing-with-the-net\/\">&#8220;standing with the net.&#8221;<\/a> We should definitely be standing for freedom of expression.\u00a0 What we need to understand is that the same thing that makes the internet a platform for freedom also makes it powerful in a way that we haven&#8217;t seen yet on a large scale.\u00a0 Yes, we understand that state barriers are dissolving and individual networks are becoming ever more important.\u00a0 But is this the first major case of new media power?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now that Anonymous, the hacker agglomerate that gathers on 4chan messageboards but that remains anonymous, online, and multiple has launched Operation Payback, and now that Visa.com has gone down under a denial of service attack, now that the companies are losing money and business because individuals can&#8217;t access their websites, should we declare that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oii","category-technology-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUfdR-5S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}