Article Review: Anonymous DDoS Petition

Summary

Anonymous petitioned the White House asking the government to accept DDoS (distributed denial of service) as a valid form of protest on Jan 7. DDoS is the practice where the website becomes offline because it is overloaded with requests. DDoS is a civil disobedient tactic or even a way of hacking since government and military websites could be destroyed by DDoS. The petition wants anybody jailed for DDoS to be released. The document need 25,000 signatures (having already 2,700 signatures) by Feb 6 to get a response from the White House.

Major Concepts

• Persistence - The members of Anonymous is persistent in getting the White House to accept their petition. They are willing to get so many signatures in their document.
• Technology - Anonymous is using DDoS to petition instead of sending a normal petition letter. Technology is getting more advance everyday.
• Law - Anonymous wants DDoS to be a valid form of protest and people not to be jailed for it. They want the law to be changed.

Strength

• Author isn't biased in the article since he didn't inclue his opinion. This is good because articles should give news and inform people about facts. A proper news article should not include opinions.
• Author used lots of details and also managed to keep it short and precise. This is good since it's fast paced (not wasting the reader's time), yet contain lots of information, and is straight to the point.

Weakness

• Author makes it hard to understand on the first time reading the article. Must re-read 2 times to get it. So the audience might lose interest.
• Author uses some hard vocabulary that readers may not understand. ex: expunged This causes the reader to have a harder time understanding the article as a whole.

Questions

1. Why do they want the government to accept DDoS as a valid form of protest so badly?
2. Are there another currently being jailed for DDoS?

Source: 

Jauregui, Andres. "Anonymous DDoS Petition: Group Calls On White House To Recognize Distributed Denial Of Service As Protest." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 12 Jan. 2013. Web. 21 Jan. 2013. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/12/anonymous-ddos-petition-white-house_n_2463009.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003>.