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Re: virtual sit in et occupation réelle d'une antenne assedic virtuelle
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 03:11:39
From: Stefan Wray sjw210@is8.nyu.edu
To: nyfreemedia@tao.ca
Meghan, You raise a good point about the way the term "virtual" is being used. And you rightfully suggest that we can examine the phenomena of "virtual sit-in" abstractly without concrete reference to the Zapatistas or any other social movement. Original Italian: Em solidariedade com o movimento zapatista, convidamos todos os netsurfers que tem no coraçao os ideais de justiça, liberdade, solidariedade para ocupar no dia 29/01/98 das 4:00 pm GMT(Greenwich Mean Time)às 5:00 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) os 5 endereços Source:Chiapas95 The Italians translated the word "ocupar" (to occupy) to the phrase "sit-in." I added "virtual" to distinguish it from a "real sit-in" in which people are actually present in an office or a building, physically occupying that space. A "virtual sit-in" means people are not actually in a space, but there collective presence is still felt. Some purposes for a "real sit-in" are to obstruct business as usual for a particular institution, to use that moment of the occupation as a means of attracting attention to a specific issue, and to demonstrate that more extreme measures and actions are possible and necessary. A "virtual sit-in" - speaking metaphorically - would have the same purposes. The effect of the "netstrike" in the way that the Italians constructed it means that these web sites would be getting thousands of hits on their sites (the effect of pressing the reload key over and over again)from all over the world. It is likely their sites have counters so they would know how many hits they were getting and maybe they would be able to see that these were coming from people all over the planet. So, that's the first point: they would see this worldwide coordinated effort. The impact of this is that it would disrupt "legitimate" business uses of those 3 financial web sites. I don't think the intention is to crash the server which may not even be possible to do by simply repeating reload commands. But clearly this plan is designed to block or at least slow down access for "legitimate" business uses. These 5 sites are from among the most important financial institutions in Mexico. The timing chosen for this Netstrike is at 10:00 a.m. in Mexico City, when their Stock Market (Bolsa) opens. I am not aware of any "real sit-ins" or blockades that would accompany the virtual one, but on Jan. 5 a small group in Mexico City effectively delayed opening of the Bolsa for close to an hour. I saw Reuters' reports of that coming from Mexico City and then later in that day a Reuters business story on it coming out of New York. Clearly Wall Street knew. I suspect Wall Street would know if access to those 5 financial web sites were slowed down or cut off. - Stefan At 01:45 PM 1/21/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Stefan, > >Thanks for your postings. Following up on Randi's question - which I think was >well founded given recent cyberliberation humor posts- I was hoping you could >explain what a "virtual sit in" is. Not in hyper technical terms but the premise >of it. I understand the political motivations and connections. What I am trying >to get my head around, even though I use the net, is what a virtual sit in is. >Will it disrupt the flow of traffic to the site? Crash the server? Is it in >conjunction with "real" sit-ins? It sounds, on the one hand, like a great idea >and, on the other extreme, a great way to be an arm chair radical. Obviously, >this is not personally directed - but like many users of the Internet, I don't >necessarily have an instant understanding of the ways something "virtual" works. > >Again, my questions about the sit in are not about Zapatistas or the struggles >in Chiapas. It's strictly about trying to understand what I'd be participating >in. > >Thanks, >Meghan > > > > This is the New York Free Media Email List > > To unsubscribe send email to majordomo@tao.ca > He'll ignore the subject, and if you're confused, just say help > > >
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