Natural News: New report shows platforms run by Big Tech companies enable Antifa violence
May not come as a shock, but the article gives a bigger picture of how Big Tech is enabling this regime change here in the US. They tried to silence us and that means we’re doing something right, hitting tens of thousands of you freedom fighters out there everyday. And know that social media, no matter what platform, is part and parcel of it. -NCS
(Natural News) A report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) shows that technology companies enable violence from Antifa and other far-left organizations on their platforms. Memes expressing hateful rhetoric against law enforcement emerged alongside non-violent political slogans during the course of real-world protests, the report’s authors wrote.
The report also found a correlation between increased real-world violence and the proliferation of hate speech on social media posted by far-left groups, such as “anti-police memes” and “code words.” It mentioned that “while these data are only preliminary, they nevertheless suggest that traditionally anarchist, anti-police memes, slogans and code words fluctuated in sync with the recent political protests and unrest.”
The paper elaborated on far-left groups’ use of social media platforms to plan out real-world strategies against law enforcement. In the network-enabled mob, group members are assigned different tasks: “Range soldiers” attack police officers with projectiles, “fire mages” commit arson and burn nearby vehicles, “light mages” use laser pointers to blind law enforcement and “barricaders” create roadblocks to stop police vehicles from following rioters.
Network-enabled mob difficult to track down
According to the NCRI report, “one important feature of the network-enabled mob is its capacity to frustrate the ability of law enforcement to detect directed ideological attacks,” adding that a core group of actors controlling the network is “able to mobilize lawlessness and violence.” It warned that the widespread use of the network-enabled mob “enables a structure capable of adaptation and evolution, especially if it reappears over consecutive days of unrest.”’
The report’s authors cited one example of the network-enabled mob’s ability to simultaneously mobilize civil unrest over the internet, despite geographical distance. Left-leaning anarchist networks prepared, executed and promoted simultaneous riots July 25 using the Twitter hashtag #J25. The unrest on that date happened in four cities: Portland and Eugene in Oregon, Richmond in Virginia, and Seattle in Washington.
A Twitter analysis by the authors showed the #J25 hashtag progressively being used on Twitter in the days preceding the riots. Use of the hashtag spiked on the day itself and the next day, July 26, before dropping to sparse mentions. The authors also noted that rioters in the four cities used a uniform strategy—attacking courthouses and police precincts and using laser pointers and improvised fireworks against law enforcement officers.
Authorities looking at novel methods to track Antifa
As members of Antifa continue to destroy cities and attack law enforcement, Big Tech platforms turn a blind eye to the violent anti-government content they post. Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) downplays the organization’s propensity for violence, if outright not dismissing calls to prosecute it. FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers during a House hearing last month that Antifa was an ideological movement, different from President Donald Trump’s designation of it as a full-blown terrorist organization.
Because of the FBI’s unwillingness to examine the actual roots of Antifa, other government agencies have bypassed the bureau to conduct investigations of their own. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now conducting its own surveillance of Antifa using sophisticated mobile phone cloning technology to catch protesters’ communications and “get an inside view” of the hierarchy inside the organization.
In a report by The Nation, a DHS official familiar with the matter said a colleague with expertise in electronic surveillance was deployed to Portland. According to the official, the colleague’s mission involved “extracting information from protesters.” Two former intelligence officers seconded the official, saying that an interagency task force involving the DHS and the Department of Justice used a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack during the Portland riots to get hold of messages from protesters.
Find out more about riots organized by Antifa over the internet at AntifaWatch.news.
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https://reason.com/2020/10/02/the-conservative-trans-woman-who-went-undercover-with-antifa-in-portland/
Linking to a really excellent article. Gives some insight into antifa and acts a good reminder to not underestimate the communists. It’s also something that might be worth covering as far as learning from their tactics and even adopting the successful ones.
Something from the article I found particularly striking:
>There are different types of bloc organization styles. The building block of antifa is what’s called an affinity group, people you live and work with and trust and know in real life. All the planning is done within that closed bloc, and they don’t let everyone know [what they’re going to do]. I didn’t know that they were going to burn the Portland Police Association when I joined. What they did was put a call out that said, “Anyone show up in black that night at this place, and you can join the action.”
>That’s called a semi-open bloc. The planning is done within the closed group, but anyone who’s dressed in black can come join the action. If you know what you’re looking for, you can spot affinity groups that are working together. One thing they’ll do sometimes is have written agreements with other protest organizations that aren’t in black bloc. I know of one from Berkeley that illustrates this: “We agree that to not take pictures of anyone in antifa.” It will say that literally in writing, so everyone’s working together. It’s like a combined arms type thing, almost like the military. They work together and are mutually reinforcing.
Basically the idea of developing hard to infiltrate cells of committed actors while also having an informal open sourced network of like minded people who can act as force multipliers of the cell. This seems to be a more sophisticated version of the classic dynamic of resistance movements having both clandestine/paramilitary and public/clean organizations working in the same direction but without explicit coordination. Something to think about.
We already know for a fact that Twitter and all the other social media platforms shadow ban and block patriot users content. Think for a moment about how the content scanners learn from Patriots posting fantastic tactical advise, ideas and plans and just pass it down the chain of command to the Antifa commanders and leaders. These street douche bags are stupid until they are briefed otherwise. Cell phone jammers and taking out the cell phone (smashing) documentors should be the first act of warfare after protecting yourself. The footage taken at all these riots is being debriefed and studied to develop better tactics and record faces for facial recognition for later doxing.
BLUF: You’re right, definitely something to think about, but the author is very naive about “leaderless” groups. The informal power brokers in “affinity groups” work with major financial backers to coordinate what happens. This person wasn’t invited to the planning meetings.
Background:
I’ve seen this used quite a bit in tech companies. They’ll say they’re a “flat” or “structureless” organization without all of those horrible top-down managerial structures of old. They’ve just got cross-functional agile teams, squads, affinity groups, etc. with very few leaders. In reality there are major movers in these “flat” groups that work like a High school popularity contest to prioritize what work gets done and influence those who control the budget.
Low level people won’t know who these folks are until they accidentally oppose an informal power broker with a contradictory idea. By then it’s too late and they’re left trying to understand why they never get invites to meetings where decisions are made. That’s if they’re lucky enough to know about the meetings. It keeps low-level people in line, ignorant, and in constant fear of bumping into a power broker they didn’t know was there.
There’s a famous essay on this kind of org called “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” here: https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Antifa, and “flat” tech companies are essentially a feminized organizational structure. By having no apparent leaders, the power brokers have zero culpability if things go wrong while maintaining the ability to manipulate the trajectory of their group and financiers. They’re harder to attack but harder to control when things go wrong.
A masculinized organizational structure has visible leaders who actually take responsibility for their choices and have to account for mistakes by making changes or eventually being demoted. They’re easier to attack but easier to control when things go wrong.
A reminder for everyone, if there is information you would want/need from the internet, download it to a personal device, or as I’ve been doing, use the PDF button, save it, and print a hard copy.
There’s no guarantee that the provider of the information will still be there when you need it.
Amen brother. That’s why we put it there.