Thread by @chick_in_kiev

Like a lot of you, I feel some dread when I think about potential violence unfolding tomorrow & this week. That’s why I think it’s high time for @Invisionps to stop providing a platform to one of the biggest vectors of violent rhetoric online - mymilitia dot com. 1/

As the name suggests, it’s a gathering space for members of illegal paramilitaries to find one another and gin one another up towards civil war -- with the help of tech company @invisionps, which provides the technical mechanisms to do so. 2/

As @misstessowen chronicled for VICE, mymilitia is a clearinghouse and meeting space for members of militias -- and also offers info useful for those who seek violence, like manuals with info on bomb making, chemical weapons, gun assembly. vice.com/en/article/y3g… 3/

At least some of the folks on MyMilitia have engaged in violence in real life, like the Illinois-based user who drove 100s of miles with his "White Rabbit" militia to bomb an Indiana mosque. This crowd is slavering for violence. 4/ vice.com/en/article/y3g…

MyMilitia, thanks to services provided by tech company @invisionps, is able to connect members of 530 militia groups around the country and encourage people to form their own based on area codes. 4/

Here’s a recent thread on MyMilitia -- created by the site’s owner, Josh Ellis, who has claimed strenuously it’s not a violent site. Responses included “take out these communists” and “i will take out as many as i can.”

Here are some more -- urging mymilitia members to be ready to “burn down your local black owned stores,” “take out those communists,” “remove the cancer in the USA”, etc. This is just a tiny sample from this week-- facilitated by tech platform @invisionps. 6/

.@Invisionps has some huge corporate clients like @JennyCraig , @Shutterstock , @NBCNewsPR and @subaru_usa. So why are they propping up the violence of people who want to shoot their political opponents? It’s a good time to ask them why. Contact form: invisioncommunity.com/contact-us/ 6/

Mymilitia also solicits donations via @AskPayPal, where you can donate to “American Revolution 2.0.” Which isn’t, you know, ideal. Fuck all this, is my thought. And fuck tech companies that willingly facilitate violence on their platforms.