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Dissension Grows Inside Anonymous Because Of Political Propaganda (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report on Softpedia: Political tensions relating to the U.S. presidential race are creating turmoil inside the Anonymous hacker collective, muddling waters even more in a group that's known for its lack of leadership and a common goal. The most recent Anonymous infighting relates to the actions of the group's most famous news portal known as AnonHQ, who's been showing downright public support for Bernie Sanders, while being extremely busy at bashing Trump, Cruz, and more recently issuing video threats against Clinton. Ever since Anonymous' official news source has started showing public support for Sanders, many of the group's divisions have publicly disavowed it and have even gone so far as launching constant waves of DDoS attacks at what once used to be the hacker's official news portal. Last month, when a former Anonymous member decided to dox himself, he said in interviews that the group had been infiltrated by government agents.
"Anonymous" is the equivalent of a preschoolers yelling and kicking your shins. Ignore them, or chuckle if you want, then move in.
These people aren't shaping anyones option on anything.
SJWs are the new boogeyman. -Me
I was thinking, it would be pretty cool if Slashdot had submissions about technology, science, and maybe even computing. I know this is mainly a political site, but I think some people might find submissions about non-political stories interesting. Maybe there could even be some submissions about computer programming on the front page every now and then.
I totally agree. Not only are there more political stories, they're decidedly left-leaning. It's getting even worse in the comments. I remember when government was "the man"' and hackers were mostly libertarian. Now every Slashdot issue seems to end up as a fight for who can hand government more power and control. (Don't like big corporations? Why do you think big government is better? Maybe small both is best. Bernie Sanders? Give me a break. Do you know how other countries provide college for free? They pick the people who are allowed to go.)
The more Slashdot becomes a hang out for privleged young lefties to tell everyone how to think, the more I just want to chuck the whole thing. And fwiw, I've been a daily visitor since I downloaded Debian onto floppies with my 28.8 modem.
Trump could easily turn out to be the most moderate Republican president in a century. He might even be isolationist enough to disentangle us from the mideast.
Clinton, on the other hand, could even more easily be the best Republican president since Reagan.