"How Right-Wing Extremists Stalk, Dox, and Harass Their Enemies" -2017

A must read especially now that we can no longer expect the federal government to put a stop to this.

"Chat logs obtained from message boards used by neo-Nazis and other far-right groups show a concerted effort to compile private information on leftist enemies and circulate the data to encourage harassment or violence.

The messages were obtained by an anonymous source, who infiltrated and gained the trust of white nationalists and other right-wingers, and has been leaking the material to Unicorn Riot, a “decentralized media collective” that emerged from leftist protest movements.

The chat logs originate from various web discussion communities hosted by the provider Discord and closed to the public. The communities, which have names like “Vibrant Diversity,” “Ethnoserver,” “Safe Space 3,” “4th Reich,” and “Charlottesville 2.0,” range from having 36 users to 1,269 users. The most active, with nearly a quarter million messages over seven months, is “Vibrant Diversity,” a neo-Nazi community forum that includes a channel called “#oven,” where users share racist memes. The 4th Reich server, the second most active, has 130,000 messages over the course of four months and includes a channel called “#rare_hitlers,” where users share propaganda posters and other glorified media from Nazi Germany. The “Charlottesville 2.0” server, which contains 35,000 messages, is where the “Unite the Right” hate rally in Charlottesville was organized.

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"If you’re worried right-wing extremists will come after you, here are a few resources to help you scrub your online presence.

Feminist Frequency’s Speak Up and Stay Safe(r) guide
Equality Lab’s anti-doxing guide for activists facing attacks from the “alt-right”
A Techlicious blog post about removing yourself from people search directories"

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/06/how-right-wing-extremists-stalk-dox-and-harass-their-enemies/

Highly recommended.

No room to put it here, but the article lists actual cases of stalking, harassment and assault.

Direct links to the resources in the last paragraph are in the linked article.










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