We Are Legion premiers at SXSW

Pre­mier­ing to a packed house of more than 9000, (ok, a packed house of 600, but if you get that joke, see this film) “We are Legion: the sto­ry of the Hack­tivists” rocked the socks off of SXSW last night. Ova­tions through­out. Masked spokesper­sons nail­ing their thoughts to the door. Courage, crazy cre­ativ­i­ty, and rock hard prin­ci­ple thrown in a blender with anar­chic, apo­lit­i­cal Loki wor­ship.

I loved this film. I loved every­thing about this film. I want­ed to tat­too this film on my chest. See it. And help answer the chal­lenge posed by Mer­cedes Hae­fer, impli­cat­ed in com­mit­ting an online sit-in at the gates of Pay Pal and Mas­ter Card: “This is the point in his­to­ry that you choose if protest is allowed online.” 

Fact: the aver­age sen­tence for com­put­er “crime” in the US is years longer than the aver­age sen­tence for a pedophile. This is the sto­ry of the 99% ver­sus the 1% tracked all the way back to the MIT roots of prankster hijinks to Steve Jobs’ phone phreak­ing to 4Chan and LULZ to the roots of Occu­py.

Do. Not. Miss. This. Film.