NiggerNiggerNigger
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That was more or less the real politics of the oldfags, if you could even say they had politics. John McAfee is a good example of an oldfag. The early anons that made the hacker known as 4chan famous was just a self-organizing grey hat community.fox called 4chan a leftwing site, and in the earlier days there were strains of both libertarianism and internet freedomlovers that thought chip technology, interconnectivity and free information could help in alleviating poverty.
Their attitudes towards and hopes for the internet was their politics. To them the internet was theirs. It belonged to them, and their politics moved around the entire normie political spectrum like it was irrelevant, because to them it was.
It just focused around the internet and virtual information. The idea being that data was not an object that could be owned. Just as thousands of people have played Moonlight Sonata and on thousands of different pianos, and hundreds of thousands have heard it, no one owned the song, they saw files sharing (warez), coding (open sourcing) and the internet (encryption, anonymity, users having the controls to protect their own data) through that lens, and the anon ethos of self-organizing on merit was very much their ethos, a kind of internet anarchism. Lofty, well-intentioned, and naive.
4chan's anon culture was undeniably their culture.
We (newfag here) really did look up to them.
The complexity of what the internet became crushed them, between the torrential low quality normie tier content and relentless low value interaction coming from the rise of social media platforms and phones, kosher media sharing and government crackdowns on piracy, and then most of all though it was the criminal immoral nihilistic and predatory elements on the internet that made their vision seem foolish and naive regarding how fucking shitty people really are.
A lot of them probably ended up scooped up by the Mil Industrial Complex (including the corporate and jew sides of the house post-9/11 when they privatized a lot of the defense intelligence network).
They ended up being guys like John McAfee, but without anywhere near that kind of recognition.