ABSTRACT
The circumstance that lent the census boycott movements' form of direct democracy more teeth than most other extraparliamentary movements was the government's reliance on the willing and truthful response of every individual residing in the national territory. The census boycott movement enjoyed the rare benefit of a clear and effective mechanism by which every individual could translate opposition to the census into effective resistance, whether or not they chose to involve themselves in public activism. The 1983 and 1987 census boycott movements were linked in activist calendars by a series of mobilizations, campaigns and controversies over various other pieces of the incipient Kybernokratie of the surveillance state. The boycott would receive massive and widespread support from Green party locals and some national leaders, while other prominent Greens would dissent. The boycott movement, too, developed new strategies, particularly in the form of a more consistent implementation of the ''hard boycott'', aimed at safeguarding a notion of anonymous informational citizenship.
