4Chan is one of the major forces today promoting civil order?
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.
Notice even without training, those in the battle are recognizing the power of intel. Up next will be sending infiltrators into Antifa planning sessions with hidden body cams, photography with telephoto lenses at staging areas, running foot and vehicular follows after the protests to follow protestors home, and recruiting and running informants in the organization.
The only downside is you have to be careful.
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.
You never heard about that in the carefully staged media following the bombings, and it was probably for the best. Hopefully they will be super-careful about IDs, and hedge everything for legal reasons.
Still you have to respect the ingenuity of the new generation and its eagerness to jump into the battle. Nothing will shut down r-strategists like the threat of 4Chan’ers taking away their jobs, eliminating their resources, and upending their lives.
[…] 4Chan Creating A Face Database Of Antifa Members […]
Watching all the craziness, I’m thinking I should get a good bodycam, possibly even a 4K cam. Any recommendations?
Depends. Pivothead makes good 1080p glasses, which are easy to wear, semi-hidden, record what you see, and can be adjusted for framerate and resolution. The downside is limited recording time due to internal memory, and those built in batteries eventually go and you need a whole new unit. GoPro is the standard, memory is microSD, and you get 4K. But it isn’t hidden. Ebay has a wide range of hidden cams in hats, sunglasses, key fobs, pens, watches, and so on. They are basically in everything. Just be sure you go 1080P at least.
What is great about hidden cameras is you can set them to run, and not have to worry about being on your game in the moment. Otherwise you may have something happen, and as your amygdala focuses on it, you forget to record it.
The only downside is if you are fighting, you will be recording evidence of your crimes, and maybe of any compatriots. I would don the video and then dress like Antifa and go behind the lines.
Misleading about Boston Bomber. The man reddit identified was missing for a month already and died before the bombing.
Thanks, I had never heard the story. Should have known it’d be fake news.
FBI cleaned up all the patsies they didnt use for that false flag
At the end of the day, these ANTIFA types can’t be public about how they are ANTIFA because the optics of the group are terrible.
The threat of outing them in the age of the internet is an awesome example of using social pressure as leverage.
We need drones at these events getting 360 video for analysis.
Well Reddit users are SJWs. They suck at everything.
[…] the internet. Even though the counter-demonstration was comprised of mostly non-Antifa leftists, these right-wing stalkers are already creating their own database on leftists that were at the demon…, despite whether they are affiliated with Antifa or not. Their online threads state that they are […]
Need a list of names and possible addresses so they can be investigated further to verify. Any in the Las Vegas area?
They have already tracked down the bike lock guy (antifa member who struck someone with a bike lock in the head requiring stitches) and found that he was a TA, I believe he lost his job and is in hiding