"More generally, are many hackers libertarians?" Possibly slightly more than the general population. I used to see a lot of claims that libertarians were very

"More generally, are many hackers libertarians?" Possibly slightly more than the general population. I used to see a lot of claims that libertarians were very common among hackers and geeks, but that's never seemed to pan out. Even the sort of left-wing and right-wing people who call themselves "libertarians" because they like some civil liberties issue or hate taxes don't seem any more common than normal. Mind, I don't hear those claims as much, anymore.