This is criminal use of freedom of speech….
Authorities need to be more vigilant of these places that seem to give birth to American Domestic terrorism…
Supporters of President Trump mused openly on social media about the possibility of violence in the days leading up to the riot at the Capitol, using various mainstream and conservative-leaning sites to organize.
As tech platforms crack down on Trump in the wake of the attack, experts say increasingly popular right-wing sites could pose an even greater danger down the road as conspiracy theories breed real-life crises.
“Jan. 6 is an inflection point for how the United States and the world views conspiracy theories, and how conspiracy theories, ranging from election fraud and ‘Stop the Steal,’ can lead to real-world harm in a way that a lot of people never really kind of believed,” Jason Blazakis, director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute, told The Hill…
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“There were explicit discussions of assaulting the Capitol in these far-right forums,” Emerson Brooking, resident fellow at Digital Forensic Research Lab in D.C., told the Hill.
“It’s unclear the extent to which the president understood sentiment in that crowd, but the fact that he — in his inciting speech on the 6th — didn’t back away from this stuff, anyone who showed up with the intention of attacking the Capitol was getting the all-clear sign from the commander-in-chief,” Brooking added.
The Capitol attack is far from the first time a far-right event that turned violent had spawned from online organizing. But Brooking said it’s the first time participants shifted to clashing with officers as opposed to counter-protestors.
“They would try to hold provocative events with the intent of fomenting a counter-protest so then they could engage those counter protesters in street violence,” he said, referencing events such as the deadly Charlottesville, Va., “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
“But on Jan. 6 there were essentially no counter-protestors. This was entirely a mobilization of far-right extremists in support of the president, and in lieu of attacking counter-protesters they attacked Capitol Hill police officers, and federal buildings, and were successful in doing so,” he said.
After the riot, social media giants took unprecedented steps to limit Trump’s reach following his response to his supporters. A video in which Trump urged supporters to go home but continued to spread baseless claims of election fraud was removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Twitter later temporarily suspended — and then permanently banned — Trump’s account…
Some nimrod from my hometown was dumb enough to
A. Make his Facebook profile public (I’m not friends with him on FB but we have several mutual friends)
B. Lost his employer on FB
C. And this is the big one. Called for the US Capitol to be “burned to the ground” and all inside who refused to anoint Trump a second term be “immediately executed”.
Guess who sent his employer an email tglhus morning?
B. List his employer on FB
What is is about people in St. Louis and fires when they are upset about an election??
I’ve long since apologized for saying that about your KKK girlfriend on P1 man. Let it go.
Hmmmm?
Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
Please pay attention to this statement, everyone — just issued by Twitter executives:
“Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
There are more about a Million Militia March on Jan. 20th….
The planning for Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol happened largely in plain view, with chatters in far-right forums explicitly discussing how to storm the building, handcuff lawmakers with zip ties and disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election — in what they portrayed as responding to orders from President Trump.
This went far beyond the widely reported, angry talk about thronging Washington that day. Trump supporters exchanged detailed tactical advice about what to bring and what to do once they assembled at the Capitol to conduct “citizen’s arrests” of members of Congress. One poster said, “[expletive] zip ties. I’m bringing rope!”
Such comments were not confined to dark corners of the Web. They were scooped up and catalogued by researchers who made their findings public weeks before a seemingly unprepared Capitol Police force was overrun by thousands of rioters, in an incident that left one officer, one rioter and three other people dead….
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