Just thinking about my introduction to hacker culture in the 90s and the differences today. I began hoarding text files and massive dot-matrix print outs back then as soon as I was gifted the ability to do so. 2600 was probably my most used source of information after the BBSes.
I really love/d "forbidden knowledge" like the anarchist's cookbook, hack-faqs, phreaker's manuals, etc. I feel like people are extremely averse to reading material like that today, even amongst the same social circles online.
If I wrote an article about making really pure moonshine for Stacker News, for instance, I imagine it would not be received with the same accolades as it might have been on "The Black Market BBS" 30 years ago. (holy shit, I'm old)
I'll admit I enjoyed the little Adrenalin rush of doing something verboten, reading detailed instructions of some of the deadly thought experiments like hooking power lines up to phones lines, bomb making, drug manufacturing, lock-picking, and other criminal activities that I would never participate in. But aside from that, I think it's really important to exercise our natural right of free speech by discussing these difficult and dangerous topics.
Ignoring that these things exist puts a person at a disadvantage, especially when dealing with a malicious person that may be inclined to use this knowledge for malice. My initial attraction to hacker culture was it's uniform defiance of such intellectual prudence, and I think I'll be doing more in the future to encourage true free speech like this. I miss it so much. It needs a renaissance.
-the will to kill a culture (Skate/Surf/Music/Street Art....and so many more and so hacker culture) , -the wlll to keep their power in place, -the will to have a world that looks likes their image!!! -and so many more examples...... They want to show a fake image of the reality, it s a prostitution....