Obey Party 2014
TL;DR: #OBEYPARTY2014  What: Massive international irl/webcam/livetweet solidarity party hosted by all of us When: July 12, 2014: 24 hours global time Where: Everywhere Why: To have fun and fuck with PayPal while raising funds for the #PayPal14 ransom Who: Anonymous and friends Hashtags: #ObeyParty2014 #OP2014 Website: http://www.gofundme.com/PayPal14 [<--- READ AND DONATE] Follow: @ObeyParty  PLEASE SPREAD THIS INFORMATION AS FAR AS POSSIBLEÂ
Greetings world, we are Anonymous. Â On July 12, 2014 Anonymous is throwing an ObeyParty for the world. Â In early December 2010, thousands of people participated when Anonymous launched a harmless DDoS, a digital sit-in, against PayPal to protest their attempt to shut down Wikileaks' publishing. In July 2011, fourteen of the thousands who participated had their homes raided and were charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. They, the PayPal 14, were made to serve as an example to us all, at great personal cost. For three years they have been carrying the stress of their charges and the weight of the threatened 15 years in prison and half a million dollars in fines each, by themselves. We do not believe it is appropriate for 14 people to take the fall for something thousands did and many more worldwide have voiced support for. We believe this ransom is being inflicted on our community as a whole to discourage us individually from standing for what we believe in. The ObeyParty is part of our efforts to ensure that our brothers and sisters no longer carry this burden alone. Â During the 2010 PayPal DDoS, PayPal themselves confirmed their website was never down and never compromised. The PayPal 14 ransom is not about restitution, it is extortion and the gagging of free expression. The PayPal 14 are legally gagged from speaking against eBay and PayPal and affiliates and if we do not come up with $86,000 by December 2014, they could be charged with felonies. Â There are three objectives to the ObeyParties. Â 1. Raise the ransom money of $86,000 so our fellow anons will not be charged with felonies. 2. Have fun. Since the objective of this legal persecution is to divide and discourage us, we must use the opportunity to come together and laugh at eBay and PayPal. 3. Make PayPal and eBay sorry they started this. How much bad PR can $86,000 buy? During ObeyDay, we ask that everyone remember Pierre Omidyar, the multi-billionaire we are raising $86,000 in penance for and all of his associates. The PayPal 14 must show contrition and not speak against the Omidyar empire as part of their legal conditions, but we are under no such constraint. We encourage fundraising efforts which also publicize this case and laugh at PayPal, eBay, Omidyar and associates. We believe in freedom of speech. We support the weak against the powerful. We share this sentence with the PayPal 14.