20 September 2011

A Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off | #anonymous #occupywallstreet #groundzero

Even by participants' own estimates, the ongoing OccupyWallStreet demonstration in New York City hasn't been very big--between 500 and 700 protestors near the famous bronze bull statue at its peak on Saturday afternoon attended, and perhaps 200 slept over in a park near Ground Zero on Saturday and Sunday nights.

But this small action against bank bailouts, public spending cuts, and money in politics has drawn an outsized presence in the tech and media world. Highlights include high Twitter hashtag rankings, realtime crowd-sourced mapping, SEO optimization, and the possible involvement of WikiLeaks and hacker collective Anonymous.

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