We Are Legion Analysis

“Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make a change.”- Barbara Mikulski. We as a people believe, respect, honor, and love different things; standing together instead of individually makes us stronger. You’re able to be heard. Changes are able to be made. A lot of people disagree with government decisions but are scared of consequences to speak out. In the documentary ‘We Are Legion’, computer activist or shall I say hacktivist do just that standing for what they believe in anonymously knowing there could possibly be consequences. In the case, I believe ‘We Are Legion’ showed the most of Civil Disobedience.
To start off, the history of the computer hacktivist known as “Anonymous” would be a great comparison to the lighting of a
These people wanted a voice on the Internet and refused to allow people living in other countries to go without a voice even though their government watched them. This then migrated into Virtual Sit-Ins, like the Greensboro Four, where four
Anonymous was more of a mixture of people who came from different backgrounds, different everything but all had the same ideas. Even with the mixture of people one thing that the new generation of CTDC was the fact of still fighting for the people in the Internet world to have a voice, to go unheard and standing up with a say. One major event that occured in the uprising of Anonymous, was the fact of someone sharing a video of the Church of Scientology. This video was soon after looked at as copyright and a sort of diss towards the Church of Scientology and was deleted. Anonymous however managed to get a hold of the video who before being sued for reposting, was asked to delete by the Church of Scientology. Anonymous who was once a nonviolent movement turned into a violent movement with this battle between Scientology for their freedom of speech. Another event that occured, was that of Wikileaks. Wikileaks was a website that was used to release and share secret documents of the US. This brought a lot of destruction and a lot of action to occur. Which leads into the take off of the