14 DAY TRIAL // The long-awaited event largely promoted by the hacker group Anonymous has begun, gathering between one and two thousand protestors that occupied Zuccotti Park to state their demands.
Presstorm covered the whole thing so far, following many of the posts on Twitter relating to the manifestation.
In a recent post we've discussed about the possibility of shutting down social media networks during riots and because Twitter was the most used in this case, the websites representatives decided to stop trending the event after many angry and threatening posts were made.
Even though protestors were not happy about it, blaming them for being on the wrong side, Twitter decided to play it safe.
Anonymous fans made their way through the crowds, holding up signs that said “Money is not speech, plutocracy is not democracy.”
New York authorities deployed large numbers of police officers to make sure things wouldn't get out of hand, but by the end of the first day things seem to be as peaceful as in the morning it started.
The whole thing was very peaceful, no violence or no instigation was present in the course of the day, only the media feeling the rage of the organizers who refused to make any statements.
A tweet that seems to come from the hacker group said ”When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant.”
Keiser Report presenters expect something from Anonymous hackers who greatly supported the manifestation right from the beginning.
The park where the protestors gathered is on a private property so they can be forced out by the police, but because they don't want things to aggravate, law enforcement only monitor the activities and have allowed people to remain with their sleeping bags on the premises throughout the entire night. Any form of settlement in the park has been forbidden.
We'll just wait and see if Keiser Report is right. Will Anonymous do something to take things to another level, or will they keep this a peaceful event, trying not to upset even more authorities who've already begun a hunt for them?