In a few years, the "unite the right" event in Charlottesville, Virginia
will remember you & # 8212; oh so ironically & # 8212; Kristallnacht as
digital rights. And it may be converted Daily Stormer owner Andrew Anglin,
of all people, in the greatest martyr of the free expression of the 21st
century.
The death of motor vehicle Heather Heyer immediately became a war
flashpoint culture, and The Daily Stormer (for those late to the party,
it's satirical website that labels of traditional media as "neo-Nazi ""
anti-Semitic "and" white supremacy ", including arbitrary, egocentric
descriptors) became quite possibly the first 100 percent website"
legal "launched the Internet shortly after an article calling Heyer & #
8220 "muh feelings. "Slut was published on the Stormer, both GoDaddy and
Google announced that they would no longer accommodate the owner Andrew
Anglin site. And that's when things got interesting.
When Anglin and friends tried to register a site on the domain .wang, the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) & # 8212; i.p.
International Director adopted a Memorandum of Understanding with the US
Department of Commerce & # 8212; The Daily Stormer quickly yanked off the
web again. The site was set shortly after the .ru domain, but was
apparently paralyzed by a DDoS attack when Cloudflare (whose owner called
Anglin and associates "assholes" in a note to employees) abruptly suspended
services paid Stormer.
A stay at .lol domain was similarly short-lived, with Stormer is booted the
platform within hours. With nowhere to go, Anglin and the crew were forced
to host the site on the dark web, a decision that drew the condemnation of
the Tor Project, an organization that is apparently super cute with the
product used for traffic drugs, child pornography, and literal slave trade,
but quite appalled that some people might use to say racial slurs and
criticize the Jews.
Indeed, Anglin was banned from the Internet & # 8212; that horrible goulash
pedophilia, the scat videos and snuff movies ISIS it & # 8212; to be
somewhat too offensive. Given its anti-diversity, anti-globalization rancor
so completely disgusting (read: Oppositional for their own political
ideals), the empire of Silicon Valley organized a coordinated effort to
block a specific human being to express opinions world.
Andrew Anglin & # 8211; the first man in history to be banned from the
Internet just to say unpopular things.
Thoughtcrime: From fiction to reality
Although some organizations (ie, the Electronic Frontier Foundation) have
stood behind Anglin, civil liberties watchdogs and the technology industry
at large have spoken little cooling effect established by the case Daily
Stormer (although Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince himself touched on the
previous sinister institution, stating: "I woke up in a bad mood and
decided that someone should not be allowed on the internet ... no one
should have that power" in the same internal memo that castigated
Anglin "hate speech.")
I think in the early 1990s, when the equation was turned around. Then,
fundamentalist right fans were adamant to silence rap groups like 2 Live
Crew (lyric sample: "because I want my dick and it would be stuck, the
girls would say I stop saying:" I 'm not! ") and the closure of museums
that showed the anal fisting" art "of Robert Mapplethorpe in the name of
all subjective, intangible principles such as" decency "and" family values
". While the ACLU and other alleged supporters of the First Amendment were
quick to rush to the defense of unpopular, controversial courters who have
obtained federal grants to lower crucifix in buckets of piss, is nowhere to
be seen left supposedly freedom-loving in defense of free expression of the
day right now against-culture.
Indeed, the ACLU recently came out and announced they do not believe the
First Amendment applies to so-called "white supremacists who seek to incite
or use violence" & # 8211; a change of oddly worded policy that rejects not
only the first amendment reaffirming Supreme Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio,
but seems to argue for a test smell led ideology of "merit" of its
expression.
Funny how the ACLU has never issued a statement disowning the rights of
freedom of expression of black supremacists seeking to encourage and engage
in violence after Ferguson was burned to the ground or after 17 years Brian
Ogle was almost beaten to death, nor did they release a statement
disavowing the right of assembly of leftist factions that seek to incite
and engage in violence after Antifa attacked Trump supporters in
California, Missouri, Chicago and more than 50 other cities in United
States since 2016, right?
The fate of the Daily Stormer is an example of the great ideological
censorship brief demonstrated by technology titans of Silicon Valley. We
see for example the end of Google James Damore, jihad YouTube against "hate
speech" (with overrides monitoring Red Guards user generated), removing
Google Play Gab and policies more most despotic of Twitter and Facebook.
And as the non personing Andrew Anglin suggests, wading free expression to
these heavies technologies continues to increase.
If a website that is 100 percent legal under the Constitution can be
cleaned from the Web entirely on ideological grounds, preventing ISPs to
block users access the Internet at all & # 8212 ; or actual banks stop
electronic payments & # 8212; simply based on the fact that they do not
like what someone says online? Such preposterous sound examples now, but
until a few days ago, so did the idea of technology companies blocking an
entire website from the Internet simply because they wanted under signal.
Too bad the U.N. forgot to send the note to Google and GoDaddy & # 8230;
The new war Free Speech
If nothing else, The Daily Stormer hubbub allows us to know two things
about contemporary society. Number one, the left is not the vanguard of
freedom of expression and, in fact, became obsessed with the elimination of
all ideologies that go against their pro-diversity, pro- globalization,
religion, pro-multiculturalism. And secondly, the freedom of modern
expression is no longer a state history against the citizen, but the
technology infrastructure against the user. A recent statement by Richard
Spencer printed in the Washington Post is worth quoting in full:
Doofuses in the conservative movement say it is censorship if the
government there ... YouTube and Twitter and Facebook have more power than
the government. If you can not host a website or tweet, you do not actually
have the right to freedom of expression. Social networks should be
regulated the way broadcast networks. I think we are entitled to a Google
Profile, a Twitter profile, a specific search ... We should start designing
these things as utilities and not in terms of private companies.
It is a strange situation, to be sure, given the United Nations has already
declared several edicts (while unenforceable, naturally) that promote the
right of Anglin to the use of Internet as a human right given by God . The
report of Frank LaRue 2011 Special Rapporteur of the United Nations,
presented to the Council of Human Rights of the UN:
The Special Rapporteur considers cutting users an Internet connection,
regardless of the justification provided, including on grounds of violation
of laws relating to intellectual property rights, disproportionate and thus
a violation of article 19, paragraph 3 International Covenant on civil and
political rights.
And if that does not give enough support Anglin, try this nonbinding
resolution 2016, in which the UN says the deliberate disturbance of the
Internet access of citizens as a direct violation of Article 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights the UN human:
The UN says the same rights of people online should also be protected
online, in particular freedom of expression, which is applicable regardless
of frontiers and through any media of his choice.
Apparently someone sent to Google, GoDaddy, Cloudflare or one of the other
platforms that Andrew Anglin considered persona non grata a memo to let
them know that according to the United fucking Nations, they actually
committed in good faith violations of human rights by denying services.
Coming soon to the United States, courtesy of Facebook and Twitter?
Ominous Future
You do not need a crystal ball to see where these high-tech principles
conducted by ideology goes. Indeed, the fate of Chinese citizens and #
8212; whose online behavior is monitored, recorded and used as
manufacturers treat and deal breakers for loans as part of Sesame & # 8212
credit system; may one day be the norm in our neck of the woods as well.
Think it's crazy to think that one day Facebook and Twitter could return
our user data to banks and our allegiance or non-compliance with the
populist tide could determine our financial well-being? It is already the
case in Beijing, and what constitutional guarantees are in place now that
could prevent it from happening in Berkeley?
Andrew Anglin and The Daily Stormer are easy targets. Of course, nobody in
the mainstream media or large companies will rush to their defense. But
what happens to them could very well be a destiny that hits all of us. As
painfully ironic as it may be, perhaps nothing sums up the Anglin inherent
danger-personing more than a slight reformulations of the most famous poem
by Martin Niemoller.
First, they came for the neo-Nazis and I did not speak because I was not a
neo-Nazi.
Then they came for the alt-lite and I did not say anything because I'm not
the alt-lite.
Then they came for the moderate conservatives and I did not say anything
because I was not a moderate conservative.
And then they came for me, because there was no one to talk to me.
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