Virtual sit-in seems to be a creative way to use internet and still be able to make a kind of mass protest action with blocking access to some information or room.
We have all heard a "cyberwar" phrase before and I have taken it as attack towards something and being a violent act similar to actual physical harm.
But bringing together thousands of people who all would just click a page to make it slow and maybe even crash sounds interesting. It has the same "we can make together more than alone" feeling and touch.
I was determined to find some recent activity of virtual sit-in, but to my surprise there wasn't almost any. basically there has been 2 biggest virtual sit-ins. One that is considered as virtual sit-in was a protest action against World Economy Forum in 2002, but this had also some help with special software. People who wanted to be part of this protest had to download a special software that helped to crash the website.
I have to admint that I am really interested how tens of thousands of people in internet network end up on the same place and agree on to do something like this together. How it is possible to get the information about the action to so many people in time? This is a real challenge. If 40 000 people agreed to download the software and disturb the WEF website, how many people actually git the information first place? 40 % more 70 % more maybe 300 % more got the info. How the info was shared? And all kinds of other questions came into my mind.
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