428
Arte Útil archive nr:
428
Initiator:
Electronic Disturbance Theater
Location:
United States
Users:
Electronic Disturbance Theater (Ricardo Dominguez, Carmin Karasic, Stefan Wray, Brett Stalbaum), Zapatistas, Netizens.
Maintained by:
Electronic Disturbance Theater
Certification:
implemented
Duration:
1998
Electronic Disturbance Theater
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Zapatista Tactical Floodnet
Description:
FloodNet has been a tool for empowered net citizens, to participate in electronic civic disobedience in solidarity with the Zapatistas. It was developed as a device to orchestrate collective electronic civil disobedience.
On April 10.1998 there was the first global digital action, a form of virtual sit-in, to hack websites (President Zedillo's Website, U.S. government, Pentagon). The FloodNet Tactical Version 1.0 was showcased during an electronic civil disobedience action against Mexican President Zedillo's website.
Goals:
To disrupt access to the targeted web site by flooding the host server with requests for that site.
To foster new forms of protest through digital media
Beneficial Outcomes:
With the free version software, everyone could Download EDT's Public Version of the Zapatista FloodNet, and use it to protest with any website, creating new campaigns of protest.
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