Freedom of Information
Hacktivists and whistleblowing sites like WikiLeaks have a simple goal in mind: Get the information the public needs to have no matter the cost and to give the informational arsenal they need to carry out activism. Whether it is exposing the truth of military actions or teaching Iranian activists how to encrypt their messages, these people will stop at nothing to fight for what they believe is helping the world recover rights and liberties we have lost due to oppression and “unfit” governments. Because of the uproar they bring, the government retaliates through regulation and censorship of the internet (Ludlow 2010).