Print Email Facebook Twitter Is it OK to be an Anonymous? Title Is it OK to be an Anonymous? Author Serracino Inglott, P. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Values and Technology Date 2013-12-13 Abstract Do the deviant acts carried out by the collective known as Anonymous qualify as vigilante activity, and if so, can they be justified? Addressing this question helps expose the difficulties of morally evaluating technologically enabled deviance. Anonymous is a complex, fluid actor but not as mysterious as popularly portrayed. Under a definition of vigilantism that includes reprobative punishment rather than violence as a key element, Anonymous are vigilantes. Many of its Ops can be justified in view of the mismatch between formal norm enforcement practice and Internet natives’ experience of it. Anons are more like eco-warriors than terrorists. While their actions are contentious, their force is framed in a vision of common good that is not unreasonable. Engaging with online deviants is shown to be a productive way of identifying the weaknesses in concepts underpinning moral evaluation of Internet-enabled phenomena Subject hackersvigilantespunishmentDDoSviolence onlinedeviancecyber attackethics onlineinternet activismdigital revolutionOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:812cee84-54e2-4833-9601-087dd5b5e1d2 DOI https://doi.org/10.3402/egp.v6i4.22527 Publisher Co-Action Publishing ISSN 1654-4951 Source Ethics & Global Politics, 6 (4), 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2013 Serracino Inglott, P.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Files PDF Serracino_Inglott_2013.pdf 172.57 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:812cee84-54e2-4833-9601-087dd5b5e1d2/datastream/OBJ/view