Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > On LBO-talk, I doubt that anyone would condemn left-wing hackers for
>>  defacing & otherwise attacking websites operated by right-wingers or
>>  imperialist governments.  Why, then, scold Brown students of color
>>  for taking & destroying *free* student papers, *which usually isn't
>>  even a crime by capitalist standards*?
>>
>>  Yoshie
>
>What if rightwing hackers decided to deface LBO-Talk? Or if rightwing
>students pulled down posters and handbills announcing an on-campus speech
>by, say, Chomsky or Tim Wise? There's a free lefty student paper here in Ann
>Arbor, and I certainly would be upset if local righties rounded up every
>copy and set them to flame. Sure, it's not a crime even by "capitalist
>standards," but would we see it as such?
>
>DP

Does Doug have an objection to left-wing hackers defacing & otherwise 
attacking right-wing, corporate, and/or imperial government websites, 
just because one of these days some right-wing hacker may deface & 
otherwise attack his site?

Right-wing students pull down left-wing posters, etc. all the time, 
with or without the Horowitz affair, and vice versa.

In my opinion, the action of Brown students of color should be seen 
as a form of "culture jamming" -- protesting against being 
willy-nilly *sold* to racist advertisers like Horowitz.

Yoshie