they succeeded i think because they reminded the world of what union carbide and dow chemical did. i guess we have time for one more question. >> you mentioned something about the big reveal and the s. man prank was the apology basically apologizing for dow and that was when the prank emerged. that is what made that such a powerful statement. >> i was trying to simplify the story but yeah cassette was actually kicking things off. they got things rolling in terms of spreading the word about that prank and reminded the world that yeah. one last question anyone? going once. okay. >> is a big reveal is a defining feature of the prankster is edward snowden a prankster? is julianne assange a prankster? i'm just curious to hear where are the limits of the prankster and other forms of subversive dissent? >> that's a great question. i don't really have a typology of cranking aside from distinguishing between pranks and hoaxes and cons. they all use the same strategies they're a different underlying motives of the perpetrators. i would think that what edward snowden did in terms of thinking

they succeeded i think because they reminded the world of what union carbide and dow chemical did. i guess we have time for one more question. >> you mentioned something about the big reveal and the s. man prank was the apology basically apologizing for dow and that was when the prank emerged. that is what made that such a powerful statement. >> i was trying to simplify the story but yeah cassette was actually kicking things off. they got things rolling in terms of spreading the word about that prank and reminded the world that yeah. one last question anyone? going once. okay.

well down had created the largest industrial accident in history actually it was union carbide but unioncarbide acquired and when they acquired dow many people argued that they acquired their liabilities as well as their assets but down claimed that in india they didn't get any of their liabilities that the liabilities had been settled by union carbide despite the fact that there were hundreds of thousands of people who had never gotten out of quick compensation and the bhopal plant site the site of the largest industrial accident in history had never been cleaned up it hadn't been remediated and now there was a second wave another generation of children that were getting sick because of the water contamination on that site and so we did it because we were asked actually by activists there and greenpeace to do something about that to try to get people to realise that it was down there was now responsible for that legacy. gets you know the yes man constantly targets groups that favor profit of people pranking keep the peace negotiations the world trade organization meeting why go after th