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Anonymous has been reconfiguring the political activism scene in the last few years. From their activities to make the Sony and US Government webpages collapse during the arrests of the directors of Megaupload, up to the more recent delivery of emails of the Stratfor agency through Wikileaks, in which they showed the true hate that exists towards Julian Assange, Anonymous carry on surprising us with their ´hacktivism´ and the impact that it´s causing both in politics and contemporary culture.
In fact, these are times of economic, political and moral crisis. On the other hand, the social networks have shown to be a fundamental tool of new political activism, gathering people for demonstrations and protests to denounce the authoritarian abuse and to begin a search for equality and democracy, as well as economic stability for everyone. Perhaps it´s a bit strange for us to consider that a ´click´ or a ´like´ or a ´re-tweet´ can have a real impact in the real world, where things aren´t as immediate and simple. However, the power of the information transmission is essential today, even more important than the content of the transmission itself; the power of the political subjects is within reach of the social networks, because it can reach a larger number of users and also start the events and consequences that this information transmission generates.
With this panorama, Anonymous just intervenes in webpages and makes them collapse, in an action that many users participate and that has little to do with breaking a law or altering the content of the website they´re occupying. The website collapse that Anonymous carry out is more of a call to attention to the sources of political and economic power, letting them know that many people are outraged with the current state of affairs, and it´s precisely that ´click´ that makes their voice loud and which generates a community without a face or political affiliation.
More than contemporary heroes, Anonymous present themselves as anti-heroes in turbulent times. Their anonymous condition in which they delete the face or in which many adopt the same face in order to disappear and become a conglomerate of voices and actions in a community, give it that important unsettling media effect that all of it generates, and hence governments and companies reject them and chase them. Perhaps this is the main quality of this group, that rather than execute or give democracy or moral lessons, they call upon our attention with the injustices that companies and governments carry out in a way that cannot be denied, in a frontal, immediate and global way.
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