alt-tech

English

Noun

alt-tech (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) Social media and other Internet platforms used by the alt-right.
    • 2020, Scott Barry, Alt Tech
      This is a book on all things alt-tech and the like. People who are shadow-banned and removed from the internet can be found with all things alt-tech. Includes a multiple page list of content creators, works as a guide and reference.
    • 2021, Julia Ebner, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists (page 145)
      There are three types of alt-tech platforms: 1) platforms created for extremists and used by extremists such as WASP Love and Hatreon; 2) ultra-libertarian platforms, platforms created by libertarians or commercially driven developers, which tend to operate in the name of free speech and tolerate extremist content such as Gab, Minds and 8chan; and 3) hijacked platforms, platforms created for entirely different purposes that have been hijacked by extremists but proactively work with the authorities to ban these from using their services such as Discord, Telegram and JustPasteIt.
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