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.
(TWEETS-AT-LINK)
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.
[ Operation Anarchist: The 4chan Trolls Are Working on a Face Database of Antifa Members ]
Sounds like a great idea.
Has bike-lock-terrorist-professor been arrested yet? Well, I can dream...
“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.”
He’s a leftist professor. Does anybody with a brain think anybody on 4chan gives a FIG whether he’s really the guy in the photo?
“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.”
One post said the M80’s were packed with metal pellets.....
[Whether or not, Clanton is guilty]
I don’t think the writer intended to put a comma here, based on the complete sentence.
Hahahahaha! Unintended truthing.
Or he could have put “is considered guilty”.
I wish there had been some way someone could have caught “bike lock boy” and held him for arrest.
I thought commies loved doxxing and swatting.
Can you furnish a link?
Yeah, if might have been Freudian, lol; I was thinking pretty much the same thing.
He probably was saying “Whether or not, (if it was actually Clanton)”.
Well, I certainly hope it’s not mistaken identity.
I want to see THE guy who swung the lock behind bars.
He’s not a “professor”, he is a mere lecturer. Just like Obama was never a “professor”.
Weaponized autism.
AntiFA = anti First Amendment or Anti Free Assembly.
They are fascists, not anti-fascists.
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We all need to start spreading that idea...Antifa stands for Anti First AMendment.
This wouldn’t be necessary if the police were permitted to do their jobs and arrest these antifa jerks. In the absence of law and order, people are forced people to do it themselves. Good for them.
Camo.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. If our government will not use those powers to stop terrorists, then under natural law those powers revert back to the people. I hope that option can be avoided - by police and courts doing their job. Avoiding that option by surrendering to terrorists is not acceptable.
I got some old original BDU
some old Real Tree hunting version
and some real old Tiger Stripe
even some real old OD that are pretty well worn
...doubt I can even get in the last two.
I think we should try to standardize so we don't look like a thrown together bunch of deplorables. Let's face it the conflict will be on podcasts, youtube, pintrest, etc. Gotta look GOOD.
Well, around here, even though it is NYS, hunter camo is by far the most popular.
Capitalizing the F and the A may help spread this meaning. I have seen a terrific meme here on Freerepublic which has this idea. It is ridiculous to allow these anarchists to call us fascists. They are antiFA , anti First Amendment.
People on the left in the USA are not reasonable. Many believe what the.MSM tells them. We have to work hard to get out position heard at all
Camo
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