Modeling on tactics from a tradition of non-violent direct action (sit- ins as pacific resistance,) Ricardo Dominguez and the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) facilitate acts of Civil Disobedience on the Internet that result from a clear understanding of the nomadic, dispersed, and electronic nature of current configurations of hegemonic power.

In 1998, EDT created what they call "virtual sit- in" using FloodNet, a program that automated the clicks executed manually by Internet users to request or refresh a web page. Directing their browsers to specific target pages representing institutions that were deemed accountable in a concrete conflict, the protestors' repetitive automated clicks simultaneously enacted from multiple computers around the world, affected the targeted sites' functionality. FloodNet facilitated a form of online demonstration in which a networked community gathered on one or several sites. Using the reload or refresh button, the demonstrators provoked such an excess of traffic that the targeted sites' server were unable to handle it.

EDT's tactics follow the work of the Situationists and Paul Virilio's theory of speed and politics, in that they consider that the organizing principle for radical action today is definitely should be not be predicated on an action-space schema but it should follow an action-time vector. For EDT's activists, the efficacy of their interventions is determined by their success in slowing down or blocking Capital's flow by intervening the channels of circulation of tangible and intangible assets.

EDT's activism is part of a shift from the Internet used as a means of communication, to that of the Internet becoming a site for action. Ricardo Dominguez refers to the virtual sit-in as being "more than email and less than code." (REFERENCE) That is, virtual sit-ins are performative interventions affecting the functionality of a server: they are not merely messages calling participants to action, but they are actions themselves. Although they are meant to cause disruption, a sit-in is different from hacking in that sit ins do not modify or disrupt code or software.