Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, Jeremy Hammond, and Barrett Brown are three hackers and one journalist whose separate run-ins with corporations and the FBI turn them into test cases for how far the US government will go to police the internet. Director Vivien Lesnik Weisman cuts between their stories at a jittery pace meant to match online life itself: Auernheimer exposing an AT&T security flaw and getting prosecuted for it, Hammond's descent from celebrated hacktivist to federal inmate, and Brown's work digging through leaked Stratfor emails landing him criminal charges for simply linking to stolen data. The film treats hacktivism as a genuine argument rather than a settled crime, framing its subjects as either terrorists or freedom fighters depending on who gets to define what counts as private. A betrayal from within their own ranks becomes the hinge that turns three separate cases into one story about surveillance, informants, and how the state responds when someone starts publishing its secrets.