The ‘Alt-Right’ Created a Parallel Internet. It’s a Mess

[Milchshake]

After the closure of /incels and stormfront, various alt-rights groups threatened to disperse to other parts of the internet. They also went on to create their own parallel safe spaces. After reading this article it seems most of them are barebones and unnecessarily confusing due to the dozens of restrictions on posting overlaid in an attempt to prevent "SJW cancer" from appearing on their sites.

If anything the best programmed site that the far right has control over is 8chan, which predates the whole "alt-tech" trend and doesn't really have anywhere close to the financial backing of sites like Gab. That's pretty sad.

The ‘Alt-Right’ Created a Parallel Internet. It’s an Unholy Mess
If the alt-right’s ideology harks back to 1940s Germany, its web design might transport you to 1990s GeoCities. Even the movement’s own adherents have grown frustrated. One Gab user, who claimed to be using the site while temporarily suspended from Twitter, complained in a public post about the site’s technical inferiority.

“I’m an investor in Gab,” wrote the user, who goes by the username @AnewThomasPaine. “I believe in the idea, but I’m disappointed in the platform.” In another message, he wrote: “I barely use it as there are few active users, and few essential features even after a year.”



Gab, a social network whose early adopters included the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Andrew Anglin, the founder of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website.

Some of those threads titles...

[Doctor Amadeus]

Hahaha this is fucking hilarious, seriously!

[Deletedaccount1]

I don't know if that article is right or not but it would make sense. If you go on a site with a lot of alt-right posters like 4chan, you start to realize they are basically like SJWs where any number of things that a normal person wouldn't care about sets them off. An SJW might be triggered by a white model wearing a kimono for example while someone on the alt-right might be triggered by seeing a white model dating a black guy. Most normal people wouldn't care about either of those things and those are just two of many possible examples.

This leads them to require a place where they can be insulated from these things and other people who disagree with them. /pol/ posters going on other 4chan boards has been met with ire recently and if you go on /pol/, you will find a lot of threads making fun of Trump and alt-right ideas in an attempt to bait them and it usually works. It would make sense that they would be forming their own sites where they can enforce their own views rather than ones that are run apolitically where anything goes. I'm just speculating though.

[Crispin]

group polarization ftw. what a bunch of pussies, seriously.

[munkeyinorbit]

Why are you surfing alt-right internets? And why do you care if it is a mess? Best way to deal to "racists" is just ignore them. There is nothing more galling to a racist when they are hard core doing their literature and you're just "meh" and walk away.

[Deleted]

It's not a parallel safe space when you are banned from the "mainstream" space, it's your own space. Seriously if all the mainstream platform would stop having any political leanings and have clear and universal guiderules people won't get triggered, yet what see with the giants today (FB, Twitter, etc) is that they would like to become a safe space.

ps: Reminds me when I got one week suspended for calling out a Hillary supporter that was insulting Trump supporters on one of Trump's post on FB. Apparently #IWouldntEvenRapeYou is against FB.

[Hugnomo]

I don't know if that article is right or not but it would make sense. If you go on a site with a lot of alt-right posters like 4chan, you start to realize they are basically like SJWs where any number of things that a normal person wouldn't care about sets them off. An SJW might be triggered by a white model wearing a kimono for example while someone on the alt-right might be triggered by seeing a white model dating a black guy. Most normal wouldn't care about either of those things and those are just two of many possible examples.

This leads them to require a place where they can be insulated from these things and other people who disagree with them. /pol/ posters going on other 4chan boards has been met with ire recently and if you go on /pol/, you will find a lot of threads making fun of Trump and alt-right ideas in an attempt to bait them and it usually works. It would make sense that they would be forming their own sites where they can enforce their own views rather than ones that are run apolitically where anything goes. I'm just speculating though.

Yeah I agree with everything in this post.

[Linkedblade]

Alt-right? You mean anyone that opposes the PC culture and regressiveness of the sjw community.

[Blamblam41]

Why are you surfing alt-right internets? And why do you care if it is a mess? Best way to deal to "racists" is just ignore them. There is nothing more galling to a racist when they are hard core doing their literature and you're just "meh" and walk away.

No, the best way to deal with racists is to put their racism and hypocrisy on display for everyone to see.

And since they've put it on such a nice display in their own little corner of the internet, it's no wonder why people are laughing at it.

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Alt-right? You mean anyone that opposes the PC culture and regressiveness of the sjw community.

If only that were the case.

Sadly there's a huge amount of people between the two extremes you think exist, we call them normies.

What can i expect from the NJ squad though?

Also I love the 'us vs. the world' narrative you people give yourself, like being a self-outcasts deserves a participation trophy.

[Super Kami Dende]

Alt-right? You mean anyone that opposes the PC culture and regressiveness of the sjw community.

Hey watch it Pal, that's a Phobia.

But in seriousness, those types of sites aren't Alt-Right exclusive. Many Moderates post on those kind of sites as well. People that are pretty left leaning that don't agree with some of the more idiotic things the Far-left push and feel bringing it up anywhere with a Mainstream Left crowd would have them Ostracized, much like conservative friends I have that supported Gay Rights through Leftwing Websites, because even though he was considered pretty Right Wing, he couldn't support Gays on Right Wing Websites.

Then there are people like me, that sit pretty center and consider myself a Libertarian who just enjoys playing Devil's Advocate on websites to really see if people are passionate enough about their beliefs.

[kamuimac]

After the closure of /incels and stormfront, various alt-rights groups threatened to disperse to other parts of the internet. They also went on to create their own parallel safe spaces. After reading this article it seems most of them are barebones and unnecessarily confusing due to the dozens of restrictions on posting overlaid in an attempt to prevent "SJW cancer" from appearing on their sites.

If anything the best programmed site that the far right has control over is 8chan, which predates the whole "alt-tech" trend and doesn't really have anywhere close to the financial backing of sites like Gab. That's pretty sad.

The ‘Alt-Right’ Created a Parallel Internet. It’s an Unholy Mess
If the alt-right’s ideology harks back to 1940s Germany, its web design might transport you to 1990s GeoCities. Even the movement’s own adherents have grown frustrated. One Gab user, who claimed to be using the site while temporarily suspended from Twitter, complained in a public post about the site’s technical inferiority.

“I’m an investor in Gab,” wrote the user, who goes by the username @AnewThomasPaine. “I believe in the idea, but I’m disappointed in the platform.” In another message, he wrote: “I barely use it as there are few active users, and few essential features even after a year.”



Gab, a social network whose early adopters included the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Andrew Anglin, the founder of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website.

Some of those threads titles...

this reminds me good old "onion" site

f... why did they took it down :0 if only millenials could see some of topics there PC white knights would completly explode

[Chinese Bootlickers]

What an absolute joke lmao.

[Milchshake]

Why are you surfing alt-right internets? And why do you care if it is a mess? Best way to deal to "racists" is just ignore them. There is nothing more galling to a racist when they are hard core doing their literature and you're just "meh" and walk away.

The tech reporter of a major newspaper called their websites a mess... in his article. Anyways ignoring fascists doesnt work, history keeps proving this. Especially hard to ignore them in online spaces. They like to abuse anonymity and mass audience to spread their message.

[Masark]

There is nothing more galling to a racist when they are hard core doing their literature and you're just "meh" and walk away.

Except that "solution" really comes apart when they try to murder you.

[Super Kami Dende]

The tech reporter of a major newspaper called their websites a mess... in his article. Anyways ignoring fascists doesnt work, history keeps proving this. Especially hard to ignore them in online spaces. They like to abuse anonymity and mass audience to spread their message.

Well... this is Awkward.

[Kalis]

There are sites for all sorts of weirdos, from far left to far right to religious extremists, from people into feet fetishes to coprophiliacs to furries, all with different levels of quality.

If you don’t like them then do as I do and don’t visit them.

Also, don’t Google coprophiliacs.

Unless you’re German, then you’re probably into that sort of thing.

And the far left mocking the far right is hilarious, both are cunts and a cancer on society.

[Ravenblade]

Reminds me on the old Freepers site which was a mess too but it also had topics of the same nature as shown in the image. I guess when polarization has progressed that far then bizarre things like these happen all too often.

[Milchshake]

Well... this is Awkward.

Nice pic, doesnt look like an online space though.

Nice link <img src="http://truthfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/antifa-flag-01-800x416.jpg" border="0" alt="">.

So now you're going to pretend that truthfeed.com is a centrist website? Your mask is slipping a bit.


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[Super Kami Dende]

Nice pic, doesnt look like an online space though.

Nice link <img src="http://truthfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/antifa-flag-01-800x416.jpg" border="0" alt="">.

So now you're going to pretend that truthfeed.com is a centrist website? Your mask is slipping a bit.


Truthfeed Spreads Pro-Trump Propaganda
The website has connections to the president’s camp—and white supremacists.

I don't even know what Truth Feed Is, I just typed in ANTIFA on Google Images and its one of the first that pops up. Among many many others that look identical.

[Trassk]

Extreme left and extreme right are both cancer that ruins everything for anyone in between