The term hacktivism hadn´t been very well known and usual in my country, so the situation before last elections in 2006 was for many people surprising. The election campaign spread also on internet and among hackers. For example personal sites of a few popular politicians have been hacked and somebody on their homepages rude words or tried to stultify them. Because negativity was one of the most important features of those elections, this hacking could influence final results – not only by stultifying, but also politicians´ failure to oppose new situation effectively and rise above.
Very funny were also “Google bombs” – if you write some rude word (as “namyšlenej idiot” – bigheaded idiot), the first result in Google search will be personnel site of former Czech Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek. It became very famous and Paroubek asked Google for prohibiting this relation, but didn’t succeed.
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