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