wow, the /. crowd sure is right wing (Score 0, Flamebait)

what they're doing is a perfectly viable form of non-violent direct action. they're using technology to create the world they want rather than asking for it. i think they're doing a great thing.

would you say that interrupting the workings of the Nazi party is a bad thing? how about interrupting the working of some unnamed party who rounds up individuals off the street, without trial, and holds them in jail for years without access to lawyers, torturing them all the while?

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=as cii&q=guantanamo+&btnG=Search+News

should we protect the speech of mass murderers who indiscriminately kill innocent people?

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s821954.htm
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?item ID=5308&sectionID=15
http://iraqbodycount.net/

this is the digital equivalent of blocking a street to interrupt the convention. they're just holding people responsible for their actions. believe me, most of the world is vey much in support of trying to stop our government right now.

lastly, should we try to physically stop a government which is even willing to jail people for LINKING to contraband information?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=sher man+austin&btnG=Google+Search