The term implies that politically motivated cracking is just another form of political activism, which it is not. By that measure, the idiots who try to disrupt opposition meetings are activists too.
The danger I see is that "hactivism" might become just another tool in the toolbox, with Democratic "hactivists" burglarizing Republican sites and vice versa.
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