To me, the recent and most astounding case of hactivism comes from Sweden, where in the year 2006, Pirate Party was formed.
I remember visiting the site myself, when first news about the possible shutdown of Pirate Bay started to appear. At that time the project seemed to be a geek-thing and I didn't take it seriously. Then again - the tought of a torrent-search site out of Western Europe (and US) being taken down was at that time ludacris to me (so-called law-brakers were the sharers not the platfrom).
Apparently this ludacris-to-realisation has greatly affected Pirate Party which now is the third biggest party in Sweden. Also they have a member in the European Parliament and basically all of the politics in Sweden now understand for the need to change the copyright laws (some of them even support Pirate Party principles).
Another interesting affect from the creation of Pirate Party is the idea-spread - you can see from this map that almost every significant developed country in the world has now a Pirate Party or at least an initiative.
To me, that is a great example of "clean" hactivism.
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Jargon & Hacker Ethic
Jargon File
I browsed the Jargon File for a specific entry, as I always have known that there is a distinct difference between hackers and crackers. In Estonian language, people still use "häkker" as a negative word (web-based criminal, "breaking-and-entering), although it's incorrect. As Jargon File explains, cracker is the correct word for describing these kind of pc-users, therefore I would hope, that someday, when journalists or the common man speaks about cybercriminals, they would refer to them not as hackers, but as crackers ("kräkker").
Hacker Ethic
When searching for examples of Himanen's new "seven", that'll shape the Information Age, I see resemblances in many fields.
Passion as a thriving force at work is now not only for the hackers - more and more personnel-trainees stress the importance of one's passion towards his or hers job.When discussing of tendencies in the field of freedom, there are many opinions but we can at-least agree, that freedom in workplace has grown (work-hours, superior-related communication). Work-Ethic and the "battle" between monastery and academy is an ongoing battle, and I would say, that the hacker-preferred academy system is universally better. In this era of information-flood we sometimes must respect the knowledge "carved in stone". When talking about Money Ethic, I disagree with the tendencies pointed out in the study text, as I feel, that everything web-related is more and more coming to under influence of profiteering. Tendencies to earn more and more money are sadly not slowing down in the world also. Also views on nethics are going "against the stream" as centralization is not only gaining ground in the internet (major search-engine, operation-system, social-community etc.) but in the world too (media conglomerates, car-producers). I don't have any specific view on how the society feels or is about the caring factor, so I'm just going to skip to the creative part of hacker ethic. Creativity today has been turned to a necessity - not only in terms of work, but in relations-ships, consumerism and so on. As the information and visual flow of bits is forever increasing, people feel the urge to be more special. Sadly this battle cannot be won and I expect that any time soon we shall fall back a great deal in terms of expectancy on creativity.
I browsed the Jargon File for a specific entry, as I always have known that there is a distinct difference between hackers and crackers. In Estonian language, people still use "häkker" as a negative word (web-based criminal, "breaking-and-entering), although it's incorrect. As Jargon File explains, cracker is the correct word for describing these kind of pc-users, therefore I would hope, that someday, when journalists or the common man speaks about cybercriminals, they would refer to them not as hackers, but as crackers ("kräkker").
Hacker Ethic
When searching for examples of Himanen's new "seven", that'll shape the Information Age, I see resemblances in many fields.
Passion as a thriving force at work is now not only for the hackers - more and more personnel-trainees stress the importance of one's passion towards his or hers job.When discussing of tendencies in the field of freedom, there are many opinions but we can at-least agree, that freedom in workplace has grown (work-hours, superior-related communication). Work-Ethic and the "battle" between monastery and academy is an ongoing battle, and I would say, that the hacker-preferred academy system is universally better. In this era of information-flood we sometimes must respect the knowledge "carved in stone". When talking about Money Ethic, I disagree with the tendencies pointed out in the study text, as I feel, that everything web-related is more and more coming to under influence of profiteering. Tendencies to earn more and more money are sadly not slowing down in the world also. Also views on nethics are going "against the stream" as centralization is not only gaining ground in the internet (major search-engine, operation-system, social-community etc.) but in the world too (media conglomerates, car-producers). I don't have any specific view on how the society feels or is about the caring factor, so I'm just going to skip to the creative part of hacker ethic. Creativity today has been turned to a necessity - not only in terms of work, but in relations-ships, consumerism and so on. As the information and visual flow of bits is forever increasing, people feel the urge to be more special. Sadly this battle cannot be won and I expect that any time soon we shall fall back a great deal in terms of expectancy on creativity.
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