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Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death (www.wired.com)
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Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.

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[-] rowdy@piefed.social 72 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While I'm doubtful if it'll help, I reported the site to the registrar and recommend others do the same. abuse@namecheap.com
This is the message I used. (Admittedly, I am not well-versed in legalese and added some links for credibility but I wouldn't be surprised if they called my bluff.)

The site https://www.charliesmurderers.com/%C2%A0is hosted by your service. The site is currently in violation of Icelandic law; the location of the hosted site. Specifically, Act on the Protection of Privacy as regards the Processing of Personal Data, No. 77/2000.  See:
https://www.government.is/topics/personal-law/
and
https://www.government.is/Publications/Legislation/Lex/?newsid=fadb4b17-f467-11e7-9423-005056bc530c
This information has also been forwarded to the Icelandic civil authorities.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Fwiw I've had Namecheap for a while and they've been pretty helpful when I needed support. Hopefully they take this seriously

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Predicting the whining from the Confederates if it actually gets yoinked:

"But you using lawfare to cancel culture my cancel culture is so unfair!!!!"

🤣

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 71 points 2 weeks ago

LMAO, reading the submissions on that website are hilarious. Three quarters of the posts on there are super level-headed, saying they don't believe he should have died but they can't mourn or feel sympathy for someone so horrible; IMO, Charlie Kirk absolutely deserved to die. Wanting fascists dead shouldn't be a hot take, it should be the norm.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah he's being treated by the left like the right treats victims of police violence.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Most victims of police violence didn’t help build such a socially damaging machine as TP USA

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's an argument to be made that propaganda to undermine democracy is warfare, so propagandists are fair game.

I'm not quite convinced we're there yet, but there it is.

[-] NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world 58 points 2 weeks ago

That's not "activism" that is terrorism.

But I guess you'd need to be a real journalist to understand that.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

We have terrorists killing terrorists while other terrorists terrorize people for celebrating that there are fewer terrorists. What a terrible timeline we live in.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago

The “fuck your feelings” people suddenly have feelings.

[-] molestme247@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

What a bunch of snowflakes, the best snowflakes, one might say

[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

The “freedom of speech” and “cancel culture” crowd that they always accused the left of being.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 33 points 2 weeks ago

Come get me. FAFO.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

Come get me. FAFO.

"Better come armed and send bachelors."

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

[-] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

I genuinely have just been responding with “chickens coming home to roost never made me sad, it always made me glad” just to see them confused

[-] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

Everything Charlie said in his life made it clear that he would have admonished us for caring about his death, and he would have defended the necessity of it. This is his legacy.

If you spend your life saying hateful and morally reprehensible shit you don't get to enjoy a posthumous rewrite that is entirely at odds with your life's work.

It's unfortunate that someone died and it is a disaster for the division and incipient collapse of US society. This doesn't mean Charlie was a good person, or that he will be missed, or that we should care about his particular death versus many others.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I disagree. If a prominent right wing figure such as himself had been assassinated by anyone associated even tangentially with liberal ideology I’d bet hugely that he would he been on the bandwagon blaming the left and instigating outrage. The right have time and again proven themselves hypocrites. His words suggesting we don’t let shootings hijack a narrative or gun deaths being acceptable to maintain the 2nd Amendment would conveniently be forgotten or reinterpreted to the right’s benefit.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

Target deez nuts, shitbags.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Are racist jokes racist at a klan meeting?

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently posting quotes of Kirk's can be considered a celebration of his death.

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Snowflakes

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know who this dude was, but I just heard him talking about "his" stance on ukraine and I want to say that he was a piece of shit.

[-] BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 weeks ago

And this is why we need to arm ourselves 😮‍💨 I used to hate guns, but if republicans are willing to murder themselves...

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wish a conservative would. I celebrated with glasses of wine. It was a nice day too.

[-] elbiter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

They're always looking for an excuse.

[-] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn’t say I celebrate it, but there aren’t many worse people this could have happened to.

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I’d like to take this time to suggest we disarm any religious white men that grew up in a culturally conservative families. They very clearly make up the overwhelming majority of shooters. Raise the age to buy a gun to 30, but ban all Christians from buying them if they have children or are planning to have children.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Celebrating like this?

https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M

[-] Vupware@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Surprised we haven’t heard from the DDOS furries yet.

This site is crazy.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, I don’t think you should celebrate his death. He’s not gonna hear it, but he still has kids.

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 30 points 2 weeks ago

I'm happy his kids will not be raised by a hate-monger like Charlie Kirk. I'm sad that it took his death to accomplish that. And I'm sad that it probably won't make a single iota of a difference in their upbringing.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm sure "my dad was killed by liberals" will help with them being less filled with hate.

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 12 points 2 weeks ago

Helldiver's 2 memes, dads a 3 percenter, meme costumes - killed by an alt-right groyper is what appears to be accurate.

Fuentes had big issues with Kirk in the past, going back the better part of a decade. They used to interrupt Turning Point events.

Dad got killed by maga who felt some maga weren't maga enough.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

You think mom will ever tell the kids that?

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I read that last sentence as "Dad got killed by Marklar who felt some Marklar weren't Marklar enough".

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it looks like it might have been a fasc-on-fasc faction fight. If that's what it is, it'll be interesting to see the contortions right-wing media will go to to still blame it on the usual scapegoats.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

The shooter was (unsurprisingly) a white Christian male, cis gendered. He hated Nazis and wanted to kill one.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 weeks ago

Dude said he’d force his ten year old daughter to carry a pregnancy to term if she were raped. His kids are better off without him if they aspire to be anything other than a trad-wife baby incubator.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 weeks ago

He DID say kids should be made to watch public executions.

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Christopher Hitchens was IMO one of the greatest orators of the 20th century.

"Our responsibility is to hate our enemies, and to destroy them before they destroy us"

He was referencing militant religions (or as he put it elsewhere, "people who actually believe the words in their Bronze Age religious texts")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN9v4-lRitg

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

He also supported the Iraq war. I've never understood why people try to canonize that neocon.

[-] LemUser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

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