INTERNET FREEDOM (February 11, 2012)
Thus a large hand-painted sign carried by two young men in front of a group of about two-hundred people in their teens, twenties, and thirties marching through central Zagreb this evening. There were several other signs of similar nature. One young man marched with a drum, which he kept beating somewhat clumsily. But I immediately spotted another young man wearing an Anonymous mask. The Guy Fawkes mask, that is. I was rather indifferent toward the protest until I saw that mask. Out of the blue, I was with the protesters with my heart and soul. Curiously, it was the mask that started me thinking. Where would we be without the Internet and the likes of the Anonymous group, which has been hacking its way through bastions of wealth and power around the world? So far, all other forms of protest have been entirely in vain, anyway. Long live the Internet freedom! And long live the Anonymous movement!