[pp.int.general] PPi ask Anonymous to stop Payback

[Justus Römeth]

On 23.11.10 16:04, Gabriel Serrano wrote:
> I don't understand why UK-PP and USA-Oklahoma-PP keep asking Anonymous 
> to stop Ddos. Did any other Party in any country do the same? Why 
> should we have any influence on Anonymous?
As far as I understand it it is because the PPUS wants to make clear 
that they don't have anything to do with illegal activities.
We should just accept that the laws concerning parties (USPP could lose 
the status of a political party were it to endorse illegal activities) 
as well as the whole attitude the respective societies have towards 
hackers are different in the Anglician world compared to Central and 
Southern Europe. (The CCC as an association by and mainly for hackers is 
respected as a source of knowledge and expertese by the conservative 
German government; the EFF for example, which has nothing to do with 
hackers, could only dream of such a position.)
In the end it's a PR stunt by the pirate parties involved to address 
domestic problems of legitimacy and legality, and should be handled as 
such. It should be made clear that neither the PPI nor many respective 
PPs don't share that opinion, and that's it.
Cheers
-J