Anyone care to return to the early-to-mid 2010s and share memories or hot takes about the phenomenon of cyber-attack and disclosure? It was rad that WikiLeaks disclosed emails showing that the US State Department was lowering the minimum wage in Haiti. At the same time, it is telling that WikiLeaks was always more interested in targeting governments than private corporations (its alleged Bank of America leak was a big dud, for instance). What's the deal with that? Meanwhile, I also wonder what demographic composes Assange's support today. Left-libertarian? Finally, the last I heard from Anonymous was during the George Floyd protests in summer 2020 when they released a video about the MPD. I know these aren't like solid structures to build your politics on, not least of which because Anonymous grew out of 4chan, but I was wondering what to make of it all.
Honestly I find the lots of these libertarian types kind of enigmatic. Its obvious they have completly lost all trust in the government, yet they dont trust anyone on the left when they share the same sentiment. I cant decide if thats because they are too close-minded to jive with idpol of the left or because they refuse to let go of all the red scare propaganda in their head despite rejecting the government that taught it to them.
I think a possible explaination for their being soft on corporations is that they still fundamentally believe in capitalism, and think the problems facing society are caused by the current establishment rather than the system itself.
Another thought of mine it that its possible that lots of their weird conspiracy theories come out of an attempt to reconcile the coginative dissonace of rejecting both the establishment and the left.
Interested to hear someone elses take on this because i'm honestly not sure
I put it down to there being genuinely good people out there trying to expose imperialism, but also US counterintelligence muddying waters, and also well-meaning but misinformed anti-government chuds also jumping in.
