Posted on 04/27/2017 1:45:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When 4chan users are not busy sharing and discussing anime pornography, they can be some of the most efficient crowdsourcing researchers on the web. The /pol/ board in particular was able to find the exact location of an ISIS camp just by clues in a recruitment video. Their research reportedly led to a successful airstrike on the location.
Their new research obsession is antifa, the loose group of anti-fascists, consisting of communists and anarchists, who’ve been wreaking havoc in the Trump era. The group uses violence and black bloc tactics and have been involved in various riots and street clashes with the alt right, most notably in Berkeley, California.
4chan/pol/ are now attempting to create a database of antifa members through a crowdsourced investigation. Most of the legwork is being done by users working together, manually trying to match facial features and clothes to public social media profiles.
They could use the database to identify quickly an antifa member who causes violence against people /pol/ believe to be on their side (/ourguys/) and report them to the police. Some antifa members are professors and teachers, and proof of their violent agitations could be used to get them fired.
The main anti-fascist organization in Berkeley is BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) a group towards which Berkeley’s mayor appears to be sympathetic. Many of their members are already publicly identifiable, like middle school teacher Yvette Felarca.
The obvious downside of these crowdsourced identifying operations is that sometimes they identify the wrong person. After the Boston Marathon bombing, Reddit users attempted to find the bomber, but identified the wrong guy. He was found later, dead in a river, and his mom received death threats on the phone.
This time, some of the people in the “antifa database” photo above aren’t even antifa members and were identified on Twitter as Trump supporters or objective bystanders.
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The /pol/ researchers believed they identified one antifa who hit a Trump supporter in the head with a bike lock during the Tax Day riots at Berkeley.
They used various photos of the man in the mask to match it up with another man with his mask off. They then matched those photos with leftist professor Eric Clanton at Diablo Valley College, who had lectured on anarchist tactics in the past.
While the evidence for his identity is compelling, it’s not conclusive and they certainly could have gotten the wrong man. Clanton has since deleted his social media presence after being identified by 4chan. Whether or not, Clanton is guilty, he is already bearing the brunt of Internet justice.
It is uncertain at this point what the scope of the database will be. Just hope you don’t get your name on it.
Good.
They are fascists, not anti-fascists.
They’re “anarchists” in the same way that the left is “liberal”: They want the state to rule with an iron fist.
Yep. The're actually Bolsheviks, and proud of it.
bump and gone
4chan justice is better than no justice at all, which is the present state of affairs.
HOORAY 4chan trolls. Very important work.
I think 4chan is probably the NSA in disguise..........
***Antifa***
It’s pure projection. They may call themselves Antifa but any reasonable individual would know otherwise. They are Hitler’s minions personified.
But not on them.....................
4chan already did it with this guy.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nbh3ItqFyo
Turns out the douche is a college professor, Eric Clanton
I’m monitoring a 4chan /pol/ thread about Berkeley right now. Apparently, a car full of “antifas” was just arrested, and they were bringing M80’s to a protest.
This craziness is getting way out of hand. People could be seriously injured or maimed.
That’s a good first step...
Heads On Pikes!
What color uniform will we wear for this civil war?
What’s funny is that it’s the revolutionaries and brownshirts who are first to go to the firing squads.
Thus the term, ‘useful idiots’...................
No cigarettes with the blindfolds, though. Those things can kill you.
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