Yes, send it on to Bill Bradley, thanks.

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Michael Hogan
Executive Online Editor
Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent:	Friday, February 12, 2010 12:24 PM Eastern Standard Time
To:	Hogan, Michael
Subject:	Re: Anonymous v. Australia

Okay. Do I need to send an invoice for my most recent article? And do I send
it to someone else at Conde?

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Michael Hogan <Michael_Hogan@condenast.com

wrote:

 Hey Barrett,

Thanks for this. It’s interesting, but we’re a bit swamped at the moment,
so I’m afraid we’ll have to pass.

Best,
Mike



On 2/12/10 11:48 AM, "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Also, I received an e-mail late last night from a person whom I've verified
to have launched the global Scientology protests/attacks in 2008 by way of
the video ultimatum to the CoS, and he/she offered to grant an exclusive
interview (I confirmed the identify by way of the YouTube account from which
that video was posted, which this person still controls). Let me know if you
have any interest in an in-depth piece on Anonymous and what's going on with
Australia at the moment.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi, Mike-

Not sure if you've seen this  <
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/anonymous-unfurls-operation-titstorm/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29>
or if you recall the similar campaign against the Church of Scientology that
began in 2008 and has gone on to a lesser extent since, but essentially an
internet-based group called Anonymous is conducting a denial of service
attack coupled with a campaign of general harassment focused on the
Australian government in general and its online infrastructure in
particular, with this being in retaliation for that state's increasing
efforts to censor the content delivered via the internet, video games, and
more traditional media. I was involved with some of the sub-groups
associated with Anonymous a few years ago when I had more free time on my
hands, and what I've observed leads me to believe that the group and its
interlocking directorate constitutes an extraordinarily important
development in human affairs; this is a system of corroboration that allows
like-minded individuals from across the globe to coordinate, say, against a
shared enemy, which is of course how early forms of government got their
start thousands of years back. The difference is that the nation-state and
its predecessors came into being due to the circumstances of an earlier age,
one in which proximity and ethnicity (and particularly the former)
determined one's ability to ally with others (a resident of China could
hardly team up with an Irishman in any era before our own), whereas the
online associations that are now coming into existence are organized around
the structures of the information age, and thus nowhere near obsolescence.
By the same token, the nation-state and the proximity-based community in
general is already being undermined by the ability of any individual to
coordinate with any other individual in a manner that would have been
severely limited by the realities of geography and politics up until this
century.

I did a brief introductory piece <
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barrett-brown/anonymous-australia-and-t_b_457776.html>
 on the Australia/Anonymous conflict for HuffPo and True/Slant yesterday and
ended by noting that I'd soon be making the case that this general
phenomenon is not only proving a demonstrable challenge to the authority and
relevance of the nation-state, but will someday almost certainly overturn
such institutions. Let me know if you'd be interested in such a piece, or
perhaps one dealing more specifically with Anonymous and the subculture from
which it stems.


Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302



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