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by throwawaygulf 1931 days ago
Interesting to see how in the past two decades, activist hackers have swung from far-right to far-left.

Anyone remember the GNAA, Goatse Security, weev et. al? Now it's the polar opposite.

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> Interesting to see how in the past two decades, activist hackers have swung from far-right to far-left.

Never been true.

I wish this was the Mandela Effect but it's just garden variety propaganda telling people the far-right are taking over and literally changing their memories. ie Anonymous was far bigger than GNAA and GNAA wasn't far-right.

Ironic that these far-left "death to amerikkka" hackers are ensuring Twitter retains its de facto monopoly in the microblogging sphere and making its US billionaires even richer.
Assuming that's who did it or if they're even from the US. It could just be a red herring. Hell it could have been a pissed off Gab admin for all we know.
Venn-diagram of these hacker types and intelligence informants is a full circle. Offline left mostly does well to avoid these freaks if they ever show up IRL.