Hacktivism evolves from the convergence of the computerized activist and the politicized hacker. Hacktivism becomes a more overarching category of cyber protest within which public and vocal mass-based Electronic Civil Disobedience actions co-exist with anonymous and silent individual-based political hacks. Under this wider umbrella of Hacktivism there is no hierarchy of value. Public, mass-based actions are not seen as superior nor inferior to private individual anonymous acts.