We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

It was 6 in the morning.

I got a knock on my door,

a really loud knock

and I thought it was my dad,

who had locked himself out or something,

so I opened it and it's the LED

flashlights and the really obnoxious,

bulletproof vests

and they're dragging

me out into the cold,

when I'm in my pyjamas.

That was not fun..

They seemed pretty shocked by the

sarcastic, belligerent, angry teenager,

that they dragged

out of bed that day.

I don't know if it's just that

I was 19 or that I was a girl but,

they didn't expect, this.

whoever they are,

they scared the shit out

of some people those days.

They scared the shit,

out of the powers that be

and that's why this

is being investigated.

That's why I'm under indictment.

That's it.

Because,

between the days of

December 6 and December 10,

proved to the government,

that their regulations,

their ideas,

their view of PayPal,

their view of WikiLeaks,

their view of the Afghan war,

and Egypt and Tunisia and Libya,

it didn't fucking matter.

Their opinion no longer mattered,

because someone was out on the internet,

kicking ass.

The computer hacker group Anonymous,

is claiming tonight, that it took down

the website of the federal appeals

court in San Francisco this afternoon.

They took down senate.gov servers,

they've taken down HBGary,

SONY is claiming they did

So many confidential files,

that tonight, because of these hackers,

can be in the hands of anyone.

Visa, Mastercard, the PayPal situation.

-The criminals who hacked into Sarah Palin's private e-mail.

The church of scientology says,

Anonymous is a cyber-terrorist

group of religious bigots.

Anonymous and this other group called LulzSec,

they seem to be wanting to prove a point.

Anonymous was like the big, strong,

buff kid who had low self esteem

and all of a sudden,

punched somebody in the face and

was like, Holy shit I'm really strong!

And Anonymous calls itself

the final boss of the internet

and sometimes it proves

to be really fucking true.

If you were going to violate

the freedoms of the internet,

you certainly better watch the f*ck out.

They are, kind of, the

rude boys of activism.

There's a real rough edge to that,

which I think also,

is one reason why they

garner so much love

and hate from people too.

They represent a certain

sort of chaotic freedom.

Individual, young,

nameless, faceless folks are having

geo-political impact

and it's both exhilarating to realize

that and terrifying to realize that.

It kind of depends on

how that power is wielded.

We are legion.

We do not forget.

Expect us.

We stand for freedom,

we stand for freedom of speech,

the power of the people,

the ability for them to protest

against their government, to right wrongs.

No sensorship, epecially online,

but also in real life.

We have members throughout society

in all stratums of it worldwide,

yet we have no leadership.

It's one voice, it's not individual voices, that's why

we don't show our faces, that's why we don't give our names.

We're speaking as one and it's a collective.

Good timing..

I would love to live in a country

where the government fears its citizens

and not the other way around.

Right now, plenty of Anonymous actors

are in hiding because of fear of reprisals by the government.

I've been called many things,

there's unpatriotic..

..that we're just a bunch of children

sitting in our parents' basement.

I get called a terrorist sympathizer.

We've been called kids, we've been called

cyber-bullies, we've been called hooligans and..

You know, sometimes these

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