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digilantes

digilantes is the plural of digilante.

Meaning of digilante

Noun

digilante (plural digilantes)

  1. A person who engages in vigilantism on or through the Internet.
    • Other computer wizards have become cult figures after rushing to defend their idea of Internet purity, for example, when several hacker "digitantes" sabotaged Cyber Promotions, Inc., one of the most hated e-mail advertisers, or "spammers."1998, David Brin, The Transparent Society: WIll Technology Force Use to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, Perseus Books, →ISBN, page 164

Questions about digilantes

What is digilantes the plural of?
Digilantes is the plural of digilante.

Words near digilantes in the dictionary

  1. digifolein
  2. digifucocellobioside
  3. digilanide
  4. digilanogen
  5. digilante
  6. digilantes
  7. Digilio
  8. Digilios
  9. digimatic
  10. digimatics
  11. diginatin

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