Carbon Defense League
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The Carbon Defense League (CDL), founded in 1998, is a group of anarchist tactical media practitioners whose exploits include a variety of media actions on a variety of different media platforms including the Nintendo Gameboy. Relative to Institute for Applied Autonomy and CAE media activists, the CDL is comprised of artists from the Carnegie Mellon School of Art and were most active during 1999-2004 [citation needed].
The CDL's mission: "The artist collective Carbon Defense League (CDL), founded in 1998, has used strategies such as online map making, workshopping, storytelling, hacking children’s toys, re-labeling items on store shelves, and playing with the U.S. Presidential voting process, to create debate where it had previously been suppressed."
CDL uses the internet, mainstream media, video, and performance to stimulate change in access to communication systems. They are responsible for a masturbation game for the Nintendo Gameboy, the Gay Model hack for Maxis' SimCity, FtheVote.com, an anti-voting pro-sex propaganda website, and Re-Code.com, a website which exploited UPC symbols at supermarkets to reduce the price of brand names, illicitly, by utilizing a public database of UPC codes. They were sued by Wal*Mart in a case that is still pending.
