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IIRC that's what Hatreon was intended to do, provide crowdfunding for far-right organizations, but it shut down. I wonder if it would have been successful if it
by notreallyserio 5y ago
IIRC that's what Hatreon was intended to do, provide crowdfunding for far-right organizations, but it shut down. I wonder if it would have been successful if it went with Bitcoin instead of relying on Visa et al.
- magicjosh 5y agoI had not heard of Hatreon so went looking. According to a few sites, Visa shut them down. After that Hatreon didn't (yet) get another payment processor setup. Their homepage [1] says: "This site's services were suspended by VISA in November of 2017." Kicking alt-right people off platforms is a band aid solution. A storm is forming that will explode at some point. You can't just silence people like that an expect good outcomes long term. I imagine the next big wave of cryptocurrency use will be by alt-right users. They're coordinated, resourced, and tech savvy enough. Crypto-enabled Spotify, crypto-enabled Patreon/Kickstarter, Crypto-enabled YouTube...basically writes itself at this point. I wonder if there's an alt-right HackerNews out there already. [1] https://hatreon.net/ https://hatreon.net/ Also the founder is the 3D printed gun guy!
- cSoze 5y agoAre they tech savvy though? The "alt-right twitter" was prominantly hacked exposing a ton of personal information. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-t...
- magicjosh 5y agoNo, alt-right as a whole is not tech savvy. But I have to imagine there's some subset of alt-right that is indeed tech savvy.