[njharman]

HN has high proportion of "tech" people. Tech people old enough to have lived through "birth of Internet" or into 80's hacker/phreaker culture will know of MAE West and MAE East. These people, upvoted for nostalgia and to express comradery with poster.

[xwdv]

But why? What is the connection?

[dghlsakjg]

The post is about a person named Mae West. The wikipedia article linked is about a infrastructure exchange point with the same name

[xwdv]

I’m talking about the original article. The person. Why?

[labster]

I learned something from reading this article. Plus Mae West was a hacker of a sort: she interpreted censorship as damage and routed around it. Obviously not as much of a hacker as Hedy Lamarr, but still she led an interesting life.