It's refreshing to see the alt right get smoked out of there internet holes.
I was thinking the same thing today, seeing stories about different groups starting to take white nationalism a lot more seriously after this weekend. We'll see how far it goes though, how much real action we see. I heard about what happened with GoDaddy and I think one other internet hosting service getting rid of a lot of that stuff.
Should've happened YEARS ago, I'm talking like 2008.
Everyone just allowed places like Stormfront & /pol/ to fester for years and never thought it would leak over into everywhere else. Well surprise surprise!
Definitely. People back then though either didn't know what it was or didn't take the internet seriously. Others thought everyone on 4chan and other internet communities back then was just being ironic, and maybe a lot of the "first generation" was. Was there even twitter in 2008? People were still sorta talking about MySpace back then. Facebook and YouTube weren't what they are today community-wise.
So what's gonna happen? Are the big internet companies actually gonna try to tear all that shit down, or will that just force them to dig deeper?
And what happened to Anonymous? I haven't paid much attention to Anonymous since around that 2008 time period, but since then it seems like that group went in the
opposite direction politically. If so, I guess the anarchist roots of the V For Vendetta imagery actually took hold. Stories are going around that they may have taken down some white nationalist sites after the rally, but I'm not sure if that was real.