Online games increasingly a place for protest, social activism

[....] To protest the possibility of war, Anne-Marie Schleiner designed a hack for Counterstrike, a popular first-person shooter. With "Velvet-Strike," players could display virtual posters with such messages as "Hostage of an Online Fantasy" and "You are your most dangerous enemy."

It led to some confusion among gamers who didn't want reality creeping into their fantasy world, Schleiner said.

"It was interesting, disturbing and entertaining to get so much negative feedback from all different directions - some pure old-fashioned misogyny," she said. [...]

Interview mit Cory Doctorow zum Verkauf von Blogger an Google. Lustig. (im Sinne von seltsam, nicht von haha). Wie aus einem netten kleinen Hobby ein Geschäftsplan wird. Ändert das was? Hoffentlich nicht.