Members of the Internet collective known as
"Anonymous" are often described as
hacktivists. But are they really?
Or are they
really just activists (is that what they've
become)?
We follow various
Anonymous news accounts
on Twitter and ever since the sub-collective,
LulzSec, petered out, Anonymous has shifted away
from talking about online attacks and hacks to
real-world protests, e.g., Wall Street.
Back
on August 15th, we mentioned
Anonymous Ops Britain and BART. Operation BART was a rather successful event
and is one of the precursors to Occupy Wall
Street. Op Britain was scheduled for Saturday,
October 15th. That's this Saturday.
We
didn't really expect too much would develop from
it.
But with the success of the Wall
Street protests, Op Britain has expanded into
Occupy The Planet.
Hundreds of meetups around the world
are planned — there's even one here in
Helsinki, Finland.
By this time next year, instead of
hacktivists, we may all well consider Anonymous to
be a collective of "social media savvy" activists.