https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/22689de3-492d-4c7a-a1ea-08423448aaa6 The Hacker Crackdown - an 18-month long collaborative effort of the United States Secret Service and broken-up AT&T to take control of the Internet in the early 1990s. They stroke right at the heart of what makes the Internet such a powerful tool - the hacker culture. Hackers were people who believed access to the Internet and computer technology should be as free and open as possible. They believed cyberspace was a not place for governments to censor and monitor. It was not a place for corporations to control and manipulate. For hackers, cyberspace was a new frontier that would free the mind and open endless opportunities. The Hacker Crackdown was the United States government ideological dirty war to take control of the digital realm. This is a story of people, for whom cyberspace was a war zone. Government surveillance. Corporate censorship. Media manipulation. This is the reality of the Internet today. Bit by bit, multi-billion-dollar corporations are taking control of what we can do, see, and say on the cyberspace. We can’t make comments on social media, chat with people, or browse the web, without the government somewhere taking a copy in a rogue database dully paid for by us. It’s almost as if there was a waging war for this huge digital space that was once dreamed of as setting people free. A frontier where everybody could unleash their potential. A true equality of opportunities. And it seems governments and big corporations hate this empowerment of the little ones. They despise it so much they work hand-in-hand to attack with full force in order to deny us any expansion of Constitutional rights into the digital realm. And it all started at the dawn of the commercial Internet with a drastic crackdown on their most feared opposition: hackers. The Hacker Crackdown of 1990 set a precedent for much of what is happening today. I make these videos because I believe standing up against power and illegitimate authority is a moral duty. I believe all humans are fundamentally free. But this freedom won't take care of itself. If you too believe this cause and want to help in this pursuit, you can donate to any of my cryptocurrency wallets. Bitcoin: 1C7UkndgpQqjTrUkk8pY1rRpmddwHaEEuf SOURCES The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling https://www.goodreads.com/reader/2212-the-hacker-crackdown?percent=1.4984 In case the link above doesn't work http://www.worldcolleges.info/sites/default/files/sterling-bruce-1954_the-hacker-crackdown-law-and-disorder-on-the-electronic-frontier_0.pdf In another case the links above don't work, here is a podcast of the book https://boingboing.net/2008/01/13/podcast-of-bruce-ste.html Another link http://www.mit.edu/hacker/chronology.html http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part1.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown Steve Jackson Games v. The United States Secret Service https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15578406156657124091 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3765716184001998475 http://www.sjgames.com/SS/topten.html http://www.sjgames.com/ourgames/ https://www.athosgroup.com/about-us/meet-the-team/tim-foley/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service http://www.sjgames.com/SS/ Hacker Documents https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence http://www.phrack.org/archives/issues/7/3.txt http://phrack.org/issues/32/1.html http://www.phrack.org/issues/1/1.html http://www.sjgames.com/SS/crimpuzz.html https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Fry_Guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Blankenship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Bloodaxe_(hacker) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Abene https://web.archive.org/web/20080203234704/http://www.totse.com/en/law/justice_for_all/cn_trial.html https://epic.org/crypto/legislation/freeh_797.html News coverage https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/09/business/the-executive-computer-can-invaders-be-stopped-but-civil-liberties-upheld.html https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/21/magazine/in-defense-of-hackers.html https://www.phworld.org/history/attcrash.htm https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/15/business/at-t-data-network-fails-and-commerce-takes-a-hit.html Follow me: https://twitter.com/The_HatedOne_ https://www.bitchute.com/TheHatedOne/ https://www.reddit.com/user/The_HatedOne/ https://www.minds.com/The_HatedOne Credits Music by CO.AG Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA/featured The footage and images featured in the video were for critical analysis, commentary and parody, which are protected under the Fair Use laws of the United States Copyright act of 1976. 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