A Gen Z Coder Just Took a Conservative Group's Anti-Student Loan Relief Campaign Offline With Spam

A Gen Z Coder Just Took a Conservative Group's Anti-Student Loan Relief Campaign Offline With Spam

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z34yjw/a-gen-z-coder-just-took-a-conservative-groups-anti-student-loan-relief-campaign-offline-with-spam

A young programmer who previously used his coding skills to help take down a Texas anti-abortion website has spun up a new bot that allows anyone to flood a conservative group's online campaign to paint the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan as "unfair" with spam. 

In August, President Joe Biden announced a three-part plan to cancel $10,000 of student debt for millions of Americans who qualify, and now Republicans are looking to bring the administration to court. The Job Creators Network—a conservative advocacy group founded by Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus—is one group that has said it is weighing the possibility of taking legal action against debt forgiveness, parroting dubious Republican talking points that it's unfair to people who've already paid their loans off.