CYBER-DISOBEDIENCE
September 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLGHANDI would have approved. Peaceful protest has long been a political weapon, and rights of public assembly and demonstration protect its use. But on the Internet? Italian Radical Euro MP Marco Cappato wants the concept of cyber-civil-disobedience to be written into European law, allowing protesters to be naughty online, as long as it's in a good cause. He has asked his European Parliament colleagues to back saying governments should "allow for the possibility" of not banning multiple e-mail jams, hacking, and service interruptions in support of ...
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