Monday, August 14, 2017

Digital war escalates

The DailyStormer.com has been seized and shut down.


I expect few, if any, readers followed the website DailyStormer.  I follow it so readers do not need to.

It is an anti-Semitic ugly website.  They don't like blacks, foreigners, and especially Jews.  They do like Trump.

I glanced at the site every week or so to see what they were saying about immigrants and Trump's initiatives.  There were swastikas, images of hooked-nosed Jewish devils, and images straight from 1940 Germany.  It almost seemed like a bad frat-boy satire since it was so extreme, but it was dead serious.  Yesterday they ran a long article of celebration because Trump had most certainly not condemned white supremacists, and indeed quite the opposite.

Apparently the events in Charlottesville were the final straw, or maybe the hacking had been underway for months and the timing is a coincidence.    Charlottesville was a watershed event.  Whatever subtext and hidden dog whistling may have been going on in American political talk was made very visible by the White supremacists in their march.    Most people want to disassociate themselves.

Or take direct action, as happened to the Daily Stormer.

Here below is what the site looks like today:

THIS SITE IS NOW UNDER THE CONTROL OF ANONYMOUS
WE HAVE TAKEN THIS SITE IN THE NAME OF HEATHER HEYER A VICTIM OF WHITE SUPREMACIST TERRORISM
FOR TOO LONG THE DAILY STORMER AND ANDREW ANGLIN HAVE SPEWED THEIR PUTRID HATE ON THIS SITE
THAT WILL NOT BE HAPPENING ANYMORE
WE HAVE ALL OF THE DETAILS ON THE SERVERS AND WILL BE RELEASING THE DATA WHEN WE FEEL THE TIME IS RIGHT
WE HAVE ALSO GATHERED LOCATIONAL DATA ON ANGLIN HIMSELF AND ARE SENDING OUR ALLIES IN LAGOS TO PAY HIM A VISIT IN PERSON
THIS EVIL CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND
IT TOOK A UNITED FORCE OF ELITE HACKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO BREACH THE SYSTEMS AND THE FIREWALL
WE HAVE HAD THE DAILY STORMER IN OUR SITES FOR MONTHS NOW
THE EVENTS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALERTED US TO THE NEED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION
WE WANT YOU NAZIS TO KNOW: YOUR TIME IS SHORT
WE WILL ALLOW THE SITE TO REMAIN ONLINE FOR 24 HOURS SO THE WORLD CAN WITNESS THE HATE
THEN WE WILL SHUT IT DOWN
PERMANENTLY
HACKERS OF THE WORLD HAVE UNITED IN DEFENSE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE


YOU SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED US

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