Many of Kessler’s allies from last year are unlikely to show up, beset by internal divisions, lawsuits, and the wrath of Silicon Valley tech firms, which have kicked them off PayPal and other platforms essential to their organizing efforts.
More than a few blame Kessler – and the Charlottesville protests.
“The people at Unite The Right who were doxxed, injured, arrested, harassed, fired from their jobs, shunned by their families, and in one case driven to suicide had a lot of illusions stripped away from them. A lot of them are understandably bitter,” says Greg Johnson, editor-in-chief of the alt-right website Counter-Currents, who says the movement has dramatically contracted due to poor leadership and strategically unsound activism like the Charlottesville rally. “A huge number of people who attended and who watched the disaster from a distance simply disappeared from the movement.... But most of them will be back when the movement offers them a new way forward.”
Jason Kessler and the 'alt-right' implosion after Charlottesville
They are being thrown under the bus by the silicon valley quasi-libertarians. Social media is capitalism (and democracy) in its purist form (not necessarily a good thing). While the Alt-R won the white house, they did it with a minority against an historically unpopular democrat. But social media's customers are not, by and large, sturmfront.
The mass attack on Alt Right’s online platforms has the ability to render them completely invisible. As Richard Spencer lamented months back when he was first shut down on Twitter along with another Alt Right figures like Ricky Vaughn, if you can’t find them on Amazon, Google, or social media, do they even exist? They have acknowledged one complicated truth of the modern communication paradigm: a few companies control the access to speech for the vast majority. This creates an easy channel for activists hoping to limit the ability of far right groups to organize, but this also provides ominous signals for the left as well. Nonetheless, the Alt Right’s attempts to create counter-platforms for donations and social media are negligible since what has given them success is that regular people use services like Twitter and Patreon, not Gab and Hatreon.
How the Alt Right Was Decimated After Charlottesville
How can social media get away with shuttering the Alt-R? 1) it's legal and 2) the vast maj of social media users seem quite ok with the shuttering.
More than a few blame Kessler – and the Charlottesville protests.
“The people at Unite The Right who were doxxed, injured, arrested, harassed, fired from their jobs, shunned by their families, and in one case driven to suicide had a lot of illusions stripped away from them. A lot of them are understandably bitter,” says Greg Johnson, editor-in-chief of the alt-right website Counter-Currents, who says the movement has dramatically contracted due to poor leadership and strategically unsound activism like the Charlottesville rally. “A huge number of people who attended and who watched the disaster from a distance simply disappeared from the movement.... But most of them will be back when the movement offers them a new way forward.”
Jason Kessler and the 'alt-right' implosion after Charlottesville
They are being thrown under the bus by the silicon valley quasi-libertarians. Social media is capitalism (and democracy) in its purist form (not necessarily a good thing). While the Alt-R won the white house, they did it with a minority against an historically unpopular democrat. But social media's customers are not, by and large, sturmfront.
The mass attack on Alt Right’s online platforms has the ability to render them completely invisible. As Richard Spencer lamented months back when he was first shut down on Twitter along with another Alt Right figures like Ricky Vaughn, if you can’t find them on Amazon, Google, or social media, do they even exist? They have acknowledged one complicated truth of the modern communication paradigm: a few companies control the access to speech for the vast majority. This creates an easy channel for activists hoping to limit the ability of far right groups to organize, but this also provides ominous signals for the left as well. Nonetheless, the Alt Right’s attempts to create counter-platforms for donations and social media are negligible since what has given them success is that regular people use services like Twitter and Patreon, not Gab and Hatreon.
How the Alt Right Was Decimated After Charlottesville
How can social media get away with shuttering the Alt-R? 1) it's legal and 2) the vast maj of social media users seem quite ok with the shuttering.
