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Part Seven: The Digital Reich

Behind the Bastards

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Computers and the Internet in the 1980s

The goal of Liberty Net was to link the white power movement together. It also included personnel ads and pin-pal programs, which could be as innocuous as connecting races for social purposes or useful in planning crimes. The internet allowed B.M. to send racist propaganda into places where it was illegal, like Canada and Germany. A single Apple computer costs $2,000 at the time.

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