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Virtual Sit-in Foyer

Virtual Sit-ins mobilize and empower netizens to participate in global electronic civil disobedience actions.

Designed as a collectively actuated tactical information tool, Virtual Sit-ins invert the logic of wide open propaganda pipes by flooding network connections with millions of hits from widely distributed, fully participatory nodes. Virtual Sit-ins enable a performance of presence, which says to the selected target: we are numerous, alert, and watching carefully.

Important Browser Settings

For Netscape Navigator users on PC, Apple Macintosh and Unix o.s.:
From the Option menu select Preferences and set up:

memory cache = 0
disk cache = 0
verify document = Every Time

From The Option menu select Network Preferences

activate the No Proxies option

For Microsoft Internet Explorer users:

from the View menu select Options - Advanced -
and in the Temporary Internet File Box select Never

This Virtual Sit-in website does not cause computers to crash.
These automated features are simply used to reload a targeted webpage several times per minute.
The website of an institution or symbol neo-liberalism is targeted for a limited time on a particular day. A link to the Virtual Sit-in website is then posted in a public call for participation in the tactical strike. Netsurfers follow this link, then simply leaving their browser open will automatically reload the target webpage every few seconds. The intent is to disrupt access to the targeted website by flooding the host server with requests for that website. In doing so, attention is drawn to a particular political issue, without hacking the website.

The first Virtual Sit-in: On April 10,1998 FloodNet Tactical Version 1.0 was showcased during an Electronic Civil Disobedience action against Mexican President Zedillo’s web site. A Java applet reload function sent an automated reload request several times per minute to Zedillo’s page. Reports from participants and our observations confirmed that the more than 8,000 international participants in this first FloodNet action intermittently blocked access to the Zedillo site on that day.

You must turn JavaScript off and leave Java on while participating in the Virtual Sit-in. This disables JavaScript countermeasures that may be used by some targeted websites.

Turning JavaScript Off

Netscape Communicator 4+

Select Edit in the menubar
Select Preferences in the list
Select Advanced in the Category
Uncheck Enable JavaScript
Check Enable Java

Netscape Navigator 3+

Select Options in the menubar
Select Network Preferences in the list
Select the Languages tab
Uncheck Enable JavaScript
Check Enable Java

Internet Explorer 3+, 4+

We apologize
for not having
instructions
for IE browsers.

WARNING: This is a Protest. The Virtual Sit-in is not a game.
Participation in electronic civil disobedience may have personal consequences as in any off-line political manifestation on the street.

After the Virtual Sit-in,
JavaScripted websites won't function properly in your browser,
unless you turn JavaScript back on.