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Politics
Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative
(hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism). There is a strong
libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics
entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather
anti-authoritarian; thus, both paleoconservatism and hard leftism are rare.
Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be
aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political
ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day.
The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather
anti-authoritarian, so on a political compass chart they tend
to be somewhere within the libertarian left or libertarian right
quadrants. Since technology impacts upon so many aspects of
society it is rare for hackers to claim to be entirely apolitical,
and those that do make such a claim are typically just having
their viewpoints manipulated by popular media, which invariably
does have a political agenda.