Motherboard, “Redditors on r/Anarchism Are Angry That They Have to Follow the Rules”
One mod was removed for approving a pdf file with a recipe for molotov cocktail tucked inside a 600 page book. Another mod was suspended after approving comments with the common anarchist phrase, “bash the fash.” Comments that encourage or incite violence fall under the ‘unwelcomed content’ category outlined in the Reddit content policy. However, […]
Mother Jones, “A Punch in the Face Was Just the Start of the Alt-Right’s Attack on a Berkeley Protester”
On Saturday, April 15, Emily Rose Marshall drove up to Berkeley, California, from Los Angeles with a group of friends who were part of the anarchist Oak Roots Collective. They had heard about the “free speech” rally being held in Berkeley by an array of Donald Trump supporters, militiamen, and white supremacists. “We saw this […]
Wired, “Don’t Look Now, But Extremists’ Meme Armies Are Turning Into Militias”
Yet, minutes before assuming the role of lieutenant, Damigo had punched an antifascist protestor named Louise Rosealma. (Antifascists, or antifa, are an anarchist group that believes in stopping far-right extremism at any cost, including violence and doxxing.) Continue Reading
Seattle Weekly, “Seizing the Memes of Production”
While plenty of Weird Facebook pages are largely apolitical, the community overall tends to have a far-left bent—its memes are often anti-capitalist, fiercely pro-LGBTQ, social-justice oriented, and sit on a spectrum that ranges from anarchist, Democratic socialist, socialist, and Marxist to full-on communist. Collectivism is a central tenet of Weird Facebook. “Individualism is terrible and […]
The Guardian, “Never mind Russia – it’s the internet’s culture of lies we should be tackling”
Every week we learn of the impotence of authority in the face of hackers and fraudsters, infiltrators and anarchists. How far they can conquer states must be moot. But their most powerful weapon remains the oldest: information. Continue Reading
Cryptocoins News, “Your Ideas Don’t Matter to Bitcoin,” May 31, 2015
Your Ideas Don’t Matter to Bitcoin by Hiro Nakamura, Cryptocoins News, May 31, 2015 In fact, if you’re reading this, you are very unlikely a capitalist. A capitalist is not someone who believes in capitalism. A capitalist is someone who controls the means of production. A person who supports capitalism but does not control the […]