The discussion forum 8Chan has been knocked off-line after an anti-immigrant post by Patrick Crusius, the suspect in the El Paso mass killing on Saturday.
Two Internet infrastructure providers, Cloudflare and Voxility withdrew essential services from 8Chan, a discussion space for many white supremacists and right-wing extremists.
The site was also used for “manifestos” by the attacker who killed 51 people at a Christchurch, New Zealand mosque in March, and by an assailant who killed one person and injured at a synagogue in Poway, California in April.
How did the link between the dark side of Internet forums, hate speech, and gun violence develop? And what should be done by Government and private firms?
I chatted with BBC Radio Foyle’s Mark Patterson on Tuesday.
[Cloudflare] is still providing services to Atomwaffen Division, the website of a violent American Neo-Nazi group linked to a number of murders in the U.S.
https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1159162652142084097 8/7/2019
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FBI arrests Atomwaffen Division-connected & The Feuer krieg Division Member, Conor Climo, In Plot to Shoot Jews, LGBTQ Bar Patrons in Las Vegas, Nevada , United States – 09 August 2019
https://www.trackingterrorism.org/chatter/fbi-arrests-atomwaffen-division-connected-feuer-krieg-division-member-conor-climo-plot-shoot 8/9/2019
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Atomwaffen is an extremist group that received national attention after being implicated in five murders from May 2017 to January 2018. But even before the most recent slaying, Atomwaffen was under fire from others on the far right who claimed the group was actually a mouthpiece for the Order of Nine Angles, a satanic group that encourages members to infiltrate extremist political movements, whose members might be susceptible to conversion.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/satanism-drama-is-tearing-apart-the-murderous-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen 3/21/2018
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At least nine members of the Order of Nine Angles Tempel of Blood Satanic group are now in key positions of leadership in the white supremacist, neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division domestic terror group, which has vowed a campaign of random violence, mass murder, and terror attacks to destroy American institutions. The Order of Nine Angles offshoot Satanic Tempel of Blood is an extremist sect of Satanism steeped in Nazism that practices real life human sacrifice, or murder, champions figures such as Hitler, Charles Manson, Pol Pot, the government and ideology of North Korea, and Jim Jones, among a long who’s who list of serial killers and terrorists. The Tempel of Blood requires it’s Satanic initiates to infiltrate extremist political movements susceptible to disruption, manipulation, and conversion in efforts to radicalize them to engage in violent acts of murder and terror.
https://www.nate-thayer.com/u-s-soldiers-uncovered-in-atomwaffen-division-satanic-nazi-death-cult-terror-group/ 4/12/2019