I suppose some rather broad parallel could be drawn between them and say MLK or Gandhi - breaking the law to draw attention to their cause (albeit a little less morally just).

It is suspicious though that these two seem to find their moral outrage best expressed in a form that is sometimes seen as the digital equivalent of spray paint "tagging". It would be as if a tagger spray painted "ha ha I can spray paint your walls" all over a city. And then, when caught said "I wanted to show how our walls could be abused for anti-city propaganda, and wanted to lead the call for greater wall security. If it wasn't for lazy night shift

cops, we'd have safe and clean walls."

Conversely, there's nothing like adverse publicity to put

the pressure on sluggish groups to actually make the changes that those inside have been lobbying for (i.e. those lazy

admins perhaps).

I think a program of public embarassment, like posting their

names on a website, without defacement, along with emails o

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