The Impact of Hacktivism on Political Activism and Expression

Politicians may not pander to them and experts may discount their opinions, but online vandals are getting the message out about what they think is important: Increasingly, that's politics. On the eve of the U.S. elections, vandals defaced the home pages . . . Politicians may not pander to them and experts may discount their opinions, but online vandals are getting the message out about what they think is important: Increasingly, that's politics. On the eve of the U.S. elections, vandals defaced the home pages of the Republican National Committee, placing a spirited pro-Gore diatribe in its place. The Democratic National Committee said its site was subjected to repeated attacks. The defacements followed a spate of similar online graffiti posted by pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian activists over the past month.

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