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November 23, 2020
Nov 17, 2020
By Hannah Gais and Michael Edison Hayden
More @ https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/11/17/extremists-are-cashing-youth-targeted-gaming-website
Extremists Are Cashing in on a Youth-Targeted Gaming Website
White supremacists and other extremists have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars through a youth-targeted, video livestreaming service called DLive, according to a researcher of online, far-right communities.Nov 17, 2020
By Hannah Gais and Michael Edison Hayden
Megan Squire is a professor of computer science at Elon University who has focused on the migration of white supremacists across mainstream social media platforms and fringe websites throughout the Trump era. Squire submitted research to Southern Poverty Law Center that shows a handful of leaders of the global white nationalist movement are raising significant sums of money through DLive. These leaders include pro-Trump pundit Nick Fuentes, Patrick Casey of American Identity Movement (formerly Identity Evropa), British neo-Nazi Mark Collett and Austrias Martin Sellner of Generation Identity, who became infamous for corresponding with the man who murdered 51 Muslims in a 2019 terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. Matthew Q. Gebert, a State Department official who led the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, also recently started livesteaming on DLive.
Owen Benjamin, a self-described comedian of the white supremacist-friendly alt-right movement who was removed from mainstream websites after making statements praising Adolf Hitler, is also making significant amounts of money from the youth-targeted website. In September, Benjamin called DLive a great service, saying that one of the platforms perks was that young Zoomers could see him livestreaming on the front page because Im their number-one earner now.
Like Benjamin, the extremists Squire identified to Hatewatch are people who have been suspended or removed from mainstream social media sites and payment processors. DLive is currently providing these figures a lifeline both to promote their content and make a living from it, Squire noted. Fuentes, a 22-year-old white nationalist who has promoted Holocaust denial on his shows and advocated for the use of state violence to kill protesters, cashed out a bit over $68,900 from April 16 through Oct. 22 on DLive, according to Squires research. Though he has been suspended from websites and payment processors including YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, Discord, PayPal, Streamlabs, TikTok and Stripe, Fuentes is currently making roughly $326 per day off of DLive, roughly equal to a salary of $119,000 per year. Indeed, Squire found, he brought in nearly $5,000 on election night alone. Fuentes loaned credence to Squires findings on Sept. 14, when he tweeted that he made over $75,000 per year, referring to the income threshold for a coronavirus stimulus check.
DLive is a fringe platform, meaning that it reaches a niche internet audience, and researchers of the far right have until now failed to track it as closely as such counterparts as YouTube and Twitch. The comparative isolation of DLive relative to those bigger platforms has at times offered far-right personalities an opportunity to be more openly extreme. For example, Fuentes talked about giving President Trump a Roman salute on a livestream hosted there in August, following the close of the Republican National Convention. The term Roman salute, sometimes called a Hitler salute, refers to the infamous arm gesture used by Nazis.
More @ https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/11/17/extremists-are-cashing-youth-targeted-gaming-website
November 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/i/status/1324507001699840000
A Magat losing it and blaming the GOP
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1324519314511273989https://twitter.com/i/status/1324507001699840000
November 6, 2020
Time stamps: 0:00-3:50 Continues at 4:48-8:40
Defranco here pretty much rehashes what we already know about Trump's/GOP's game plan for this election. Confusion and distrust are their tools. I just think it is nice to know not all youtubers out there are idiots.
Popular Youtuber Philip DeFranco tells his viewers not to believe Trump's lies about the election
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Defranco here pretty much rehashes what we already know about Trump's/GOP's game plan for this election. Confusion and distrust are their tools. I just think it is nice to know not all youtubers out there are idiots.
October 31, 2020
The Right and other disgusting people have made thousands of memes/gifs of Hillary supporters suffering and memes of Hillary herself after everything was all said and done. They cruelly laughed at our expense and made our lives hell for four long years. Their crude memes will forever be all over the internet. I think it's about time we returned the favor. I don't care if this is seen as childish or whatever. We need to get them back for all the suffering they have inflicted upon us and for all the other innocent people who have no voice that they constantly terrorize. I ask everyone here if they can to bust out their cameras/phones and capture the Magats in their suffering. Make them look like the big babies that they really are. Now it's Trump and his bases turn to cry.
If Biden wins I think it's about time for some payback
Remember these or other similar things popping up after the 2016 election?
The Right and other disgusting people have made thousands of memes/gifs of Hillary supporters suffering and memes of Hillary herself after everything was all said and done. They cruelly laughed at our expense and made our lives hell for four long years. Their crude memes will forever be all over the internet. I think it's about time we returned the favor. I don't care if this is seen as childish or whatever. We need to get them back for all the suffering they have inflicted upon us and for all the other innocent people who have no voice that they constantly terrorize. I ask everyone here if they can to bust out their cameras/phones and capture the Magats in their suffering. Make them look like the big babies that they really are. Now it's Trump and his bases turn to cry.
October 24, 2020
Reagan vs Trump Debate
October 13, 2020
Pretty strong ad urging people to not let the Cons be the only ones to have a say in our country
Don't Lose Your Voice, Vote!
&feature=emb_titlePretty strong ad urging people to not let the Cons be the only ones to have a say in our country
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