McKenzie Wark’s “A Hancker Manifesto” was a lot different than I thought it was going to be. Before reading it, I thought a Hacker was a person who makes it their mission to cause harm to others in a digital form. But after reading this manifesto, my viewpoint of a hacker has changed. A hacker is someone who creates. Whether the thing was created original or derived form something else, they are still counted as creations. Hackers are a class of people that want information to be free to everyone. They are interested in freeing information that has been kept from others as well.

“The arrest of the free flow of information means the enslavement of the world to the interests of those who profit from information’s scarcity, the vectoral class. The enslavement of information means the enslavement of its producers to the interests of its owners. It is the hacker class that taps the virtuality of information, but it is the vectoralist class that owns and controls the means of production of information on an industrial scale. Privatising culture, education and communication as commodified content, distorts and deforms its free development, and prevents the very concept of its freedom from its own free development.”