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Really?? Grammar police..now that's weak! You go ahead puppy..go with that...too funny! I guess it's easier than a cogent answer--not that I'd expect one from you.I'm not the obviously uneducated poster who does not know the difference between your and you're.Too stupid for a cogent response, are you? Not surprised....I'm absolutely sure he is smart enough to know where to put an apostrophe, that's for sure.Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify. I note with some amusement the proliferation of the Nazi meme in the last 36 hours on social media and the use of the Reichstag reference. I guess you guys got your doggie whistles eh?This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
Yeah, the big tech, and dems are just doing what every NAZI has ever done. Shut down dissent. So, are you going to be a participant in the upcoming Reichstag attack and then try and blame Trump people for it?
You guys aren't very smart you know. It's been done more than once.
You should quit while you are behind, boy child.
They can't be everywhere..and some are more..shall we say..diligent than others..by and large though..best moderated board I've found.That said, I believe USMB MODs ought to keep a close eye on personal threats.On a serious note, that won't happen here.
What we have is a bunch of very passionate far rightwingers, but most of 'em won't go so far as to commit insurrection.
They'll support in the dark, but they won't do it themselves.
They'll just come here, bang on their keyboards all day and night in a rage and blow off steam.
I'd give 'em that much.
I believe that, although it could use some improvement, they've been doing a fairly decent job.
When I'm on my phone I always proof read before I Submit.Really?? Grammar police..now that's weak! You go ahead puppy..go with that...too funny! I guess it's easier than a cogent answer--not that I'd expect one from you.I'm not the obviously uneducated poster who does not know the difference between your and you're.Too stupid for a cogent response, are you? Not surprised....I'm absolutely sure he is smart enough to know where to put an apostrophe, that's for sure.Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify. I note with some amusement the proliferation of the Nazi meme in the last 36 hours on social media and the use of the Reichstag reference. I guess you guys got your doggie whistles eh?This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
Yeah, the big tech, and dems are just doing what every NAZI has ever done. Shut down dissent. So, are you going to be a participant in the upcoming Reichstag attack and then try and blame Trump people for it?
You guys aren't very smart you know. It's been done more than once.
You should quit while you are behind, boy child.
I'm on my phone dipshit..and auto correct sometimes will get a guy.
This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
They do talk about violence and insurrection there......funny how they think they get a pass.
THOUGHTCRIME WILL BE HARSHLY PUNISHED
Keep your racism to your thoughts and you will be fine.
Ahh, so Bush shouldn’t have jammed Iraqi, al Qaeda, Afghan and other terrorist communications and broadcasts. Got it.THOUGHTCRIME WILL BE HARSHLY PUNISHED
"TheDonald.Win"
lol
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Encouraging violence and racism isn't a thought crime, it's an actual crime.THOUGHTCRIME WILL BE HARSHLY PUNISHED
That said, I believe USMB MODs ought to keep a close eye on personal threats.On a serious note, that won't happen here.
What we have is a bunch of very passionate far rightwingers, but most of 'em won't go so far as to commit insurrection.
They'll support in the dark, but they won't do it themselves.
They'll just come here, bang on their keyboards all day and night in a rage and blow off steam.
I'd give 'em that much.
I believe that, although it could use some improvement, they've been doing a fairly decent job.
It's not racism to point out the obvious double standard at work here. Maxine Waters can say "First we knock off Trump, then we go after Pence". Or incite people to attack Trump supporters when they are eating dinner. Or Al Sharpton calling for one riot after another for 40 years. There are many other examples. I'm not a racist Clayton, I just point out the obvious.As if on cue – the right’s racism on full display.
They are too emotionally disturbed to analyze the phrases they have been trained to blurt out.This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.They do talk about violence and insurrection there......funny how they think they get a pass.THOUGHTCRIME WILL BE HARSHLY PUNISHED
Keep your racism to your thoughts and you will be fine.Ahh, so Bush shouldn’t have jammed Iraqi, al Qaeda, Afghan and other terrorist communications and broadcasts. Got it.THOUGHTCRIME WILL BE HARSHLY PUNISHED"TheDonald.Win"
lolE
Encouraging violence and racism isn't a thought crime, it's an actual crime.THOUGHTCRIME WILL BE HARSHLY PUNISHEDThat said, I believe USMB MODs ought to keep a close eye on personal threats.On a serious note, that won't happen here.
What we have is a bunch of very passionate far rightwingers, but most of 'em won't go so far as to commit insurrection.
They'll support in the dark, but they won't do it themselves.
They'll just come here, bang on their keyboards all day and night in a rage and blow off steam.
I'd give 'em that much.
I believe that, although it could use some improvement, they've been doing a fairly decent job.
How facinating.....the very folks who proclaim to hate fascism, intolerance and exclusion are now championing fascism, intolerance and exclusion.
Am I missing something here...or is this typical Twilight Zone LibTardia type shit?
Really? Another grammar officer? My...I'm doing well this evening..if that is all you guys got!Oops...Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify.
Auto correct does not change a you're to a your.Really?? Grammar police..now that's weak! You go ahead puppy..go with that...too funny! I guess it's easier than a cogent answer--not that I'd expect one from you.I'm not the obviously uneducated poster who does not know the difference between your and you're.Too stupid for a cogent response, are you? Not surprised....I'm absolutely sure he is smart enough to know where to put an apostrophe, that's for sure.Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify. I note with some amusement the proliferation of the Nazi meme in the last 36 hours on social media and the use of the Reichstag reference. I guess you guys got your doggie whistles eh?This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
Yeah, the big tech, and dems are just doing what every NAZI has ever done. Shut down dissent. So, are you going to be a participant in the upcoming Reichstag attack and then try and blame Trump people for it?
You guys aren't very smart you know. It's been done more than once.
You should quit while you are behind, boy child.
I'm on my phone dipshit..and auto correct sometimes will get a guy.
That's not all we got.Really? Another grammar officer? My...I'm doing well this evening..if that is all you guys got!Oops...Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify.
Again...too funny!
Good for you..too bad you scan for grammar...and not for content, eh? Or spelling...you might want to fix your representative misspelling...again...too funny!When I'm on my phone I always proof read before I Submit.Really?? Grammar police..now that's weak! You go ahead puppy..go with that...too funny! I guess it's easier than a cogent answer--not that I'd expect one from you.I'm not the obviously uneducated poster who does not know the difference between your and you're.Too stupid for a cogent response, are you? Not surprised....I'm absolutely sure he is smart enough to know where to put an apostrophe, that's for sure.Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify. I note with some amusement the proliferation of the Nazi meme in the last 36 hours on social media and the use of the Reichstag reference. I guess you guys got your doggie whistles eh?This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
Yeah, the big tech, and dems are just doing what every NAZI has ever done. Shut down dissent. So, are you going to be a participant in the upcoming Reichstag attack and then try and blame Trump people for it?
You guys aren't very smart you know. It's been done more than once.
You should quit while you are behind, boy child.
I'm on my phone dipshit..and auto correct sometimes will get a guy.
Yes, it's annoying.
Did you buy the phone or get it from your local Democratic representattive?
Well, it's obvious that you're (correct spelling) not all that bright.Really? Another grammar officer? My...I'm doing well this evening..if that is all you guys got!Oops...Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify.
Again...too funny!
Do tell? Are you saying that I usually am error-free, how nice..LOL!That's not all we got.Really? Another grammar officer? My...I'm doing well this evening..if that is all you guys got!Oops...Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify.
Again...too funny!
The fact is that your emotions are causing to make an unusual high amount of errors.
I post content that cannot be discerned by Mentally Ill Progressives such as yourself.Good for you..too bad you scan for grammar...and not for content, eh? Or spelling...you might want to fix your representative misspelling...again...too funny!When I'm on my phone I always proof read before I Submit.Really?? Grammar police..now that's weak! You go ahead puppy..go with that...too funny! I guess it's easier than a cogent answer--not that I'd expect one from you.I'm not the obviously uneducated poster who does not know the difference between your and you're.Too stupid for a cogent response, are you? Not surprised....I'm absolutely sure he is smart enough to know where to put an apostrophe, that's for sure.Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify. I note with some amusement the proliferation of the Nazi meme in the last 36 hours on social media and the use of the Reichstag reference. I guess you guys got your doggie whistles eh?This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
Yeah, the big tech, and dems are just doing what every NAZI has ever done. Shut down dissent. So, are you going to be a participant in the upcoming Reichstag attack and then try and blame Trump people for it?
You guys aren't very smart you know. It's been done more than once.
You should quit while you are behind, boy child.
I'm on my phone dipshit..and auto correct sometimes will get a guy.
Yes, it's annoying.
Did you buy the phone or get it from your local Democratic representattive?
Oh..and neither...Birthday present.
Your content is puerile.Good for you..too bad you scan for grammar...and not for content, eh? Or spelling...you might want to fix your representative misspelling...again...too funny!When I'm on my phone I always proof read before I Submit.Really?? Grammar police..now that's weak! You go ahead puppy..go with that...too funny! I guess it's easier than a cogent answer--not that I'd expect one from you.I'm not the obviously uneducated poster who does not know the difference between your and you're.Too stupid for a cogent response, are you? Not surprised....I'm absolutely sure he is smart enough to know where to put an apostrophe, that's for sure.Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify. I note with some amusement the proliferation of the Nazi meme in the last 36 hours on social media and the use of the Reichstag reference. I guess you guys got your doggie whistles eh?This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
Yeah, the big tech, and dems are just doing what every NAZI has ever done. Shut down dissent. So, are you going to be a participant in the upcoming Reichstag attack and then try and blame Trump people for it?
You guys aren't very smart you know. It's been done more than once.
You should quit while you are behind, boy child.
I'm on my phone dipshit..and auto correct sometimes will get a guy.
Yes, it's annoying.
Did you buy the phone or get it from your local Democratic representattive?
Oh..and neither...Birthday present.
You are very emotionally invested.Do tell? Are you saying that I usually am error-free, how nice..LOL!That's not all we got.Really? Another grammar officer? My...I'm doing well this evening..if that is all you guys got!Oops...Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify.
Again...too funny!
The fact is that your emotions are causing to make an unusual high amount of errors.
Not really all that emotionally invested here...sort of waiting for the mods to rein this thread in or move it~
OKThis story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
It is, however, more intellectual than RWers.Your content is puerile.Good for you..too bad you scan for grammar...and not for content, eh? Or spelling...you might want to fix your representative misspelling...again...too funny!When I'm on my phone I always proof read before I Submit.Really?? Grammar police..now that's weak! You go ahead puppy..go with that...too funny! I guess it's easier than a cogent answer--not that I'd expect one from you.I'm not the obviously uneducated poster who does not know the difference between your and you're.Too stupid for a cogent response, are you? Not surprised....I'm absolutely sure he is smart enough to know where to put an apostrophe, that's for sure.Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify. I note with some amusement the proliferation of the Nazi meme in the last 36 hours on social media and the use of the Reichstag reference. I guess you guys got your doggie whistles eh?This story is a cautionary tale..of what can happen without good moderation on a discussion board--the moderators literally staged a coup, and turned the site into a shitshow..that may well lose its platform!
...An influential pro-Trump discussion board active in the buildup to Jan. 6 faces the prospect of being shut down by its web-hosting company for allegedly fostering white supremacist and violent extremism.
Robert Davis, senior vice president of Epik Inc., told The Wall Street Journal his firm warned TheDonald.Win it might be dropped within days if it fails to better cull what he said are discussions glorifying violence, propagating white supremacy and fomenting extremism.
“They need to recognize the critical role they play as an inspirational place rather than a hotbed of extremism,” Mr. Davis said. “Epik has no tolerance for anything that incites hate or violence.” If the site didn’t fix the problem speedily, he added, “they’re gone from Epik and it will be hard for them to get service anywhere.”
TheDonald.Win has been identified by law enforcement and analysts as an important online staging platform for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol that federal prosecutors are investigating as a seditious act and President-Elect Biden characterized as domestic terrorism. Recent posts on the forum viewed by the Journal have included further calls for violence, including a threat to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about which the FBI was informed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The owner of the domain TheDonald.Win, Jody Williams, said he has been trying for months to purge a surging tide of violent, racist and anti-Semitic postings, an effort he said has triggered multiple daily death threats from censored posters against him and his family. Mr. Williams said a small cluster of the site’s most powerful moderators—including one who controls its code—have thwarted his efforts to rein in such content even as it grew over the last 10 months.
Mr. Davis of Epik said he believed that the platform TheDonald.Win, like some others, has been increasingly permeated by white supremacists and other extremist groups and the site’s moderators failed to take sufficient action. “There are threads that need to be pulled out,” he said, “Moderators have taken their eye off the ball.”
Site traffic on the discussion board, which grew out of the popular /The_Donald Reddit board that was shut down in June 2020 for violating Reddit’s rules on harassment, doubled in the last quarter of the year to more than 16 million visits in December, according to web analytics.
Mr. Williams said at the start of last year, volunteer moderators were able to successfully weed out racist, anti-Semitic and violent posts, deleting an average 3,400 such entries out of an overall daily total of some 100,000 posts a day and ousting offenders.
Posts violating the site’s rules on racist, violent and extremist content surged, he said, which in turn “acted like a bat signal to the people we had fought so hard to keep out.”
Mr. Williams said he doubled the number of moderators from about 15 to 30 since the November election to keep up with the accelerating growth in site traffic. Several moderators who had fought an internal battle against the permissive moderators left the site in the wake of the Capitol attack, dispirited by the blame directed at site, worried about legal liabilities and scared of violent reprisals amid an avalanche of subsequent threats, he said.
As Epik warned the site in prior weeks about long-building vetting concerns, Mr. Williams said tensions escalated among divided moderators. After three FBI requests about users because of threatening posts and Epik’s latest threats to shut down the site, Mr. Williams said one top controlling moderator responded to a final plea for better oversight with a note saying, “Or we could just not be pussies.”
Critics question whether Epik applies its “zero-tolerance” principle aggressively enough. Mr. Davis rejects criticisms of the company as a haven for white supremacists as unfair, saying the firm tries to encourage free speech without fostering extremism and seeks to persuade site owners to better vet discourse on its sites instead of simply shutting sites down.
Yeah, the big tech, and dems are just doing what every NAZI has ever done. Shut down dissent. So, are you going to be a participant in the upcoming Reichstag attack and then try and blame Trump people for it?
You guys aren't very smart you know. It's been done more than once.
You should quit while you are behind, boy child.
I'm on my phone dipshit..and auto correct sometimes will get a guy.
Yes, it's annoying.
Did you buy the phone or get it from your local Democratic representattive?
Oh..and neither...Birthday present.
It always is.
Cool beans..I so value your opinion...based on, well, nothing at all. Thus far..all I got a grammar troll with zero cogent commentary. So make your obligatory last snark and welcome to being ignored--not on ignore..just ignored. Unless you have something of note to contribute..which i deem unlikely.Well, it's obvious that you're (correct spelling) not all that bright.Really? Another grammar officer? My...I'm doing well this evening..if that is all you guys got!Oops...Your not very smart you know..as your tired violations of Godwin's Law testify.
Again...too funny!
They're quite biased, but, they value freedom of speech.They can't be everywhere..and some are more..shall we say..diligent than others..by and large though..best moderated board I've found.
