DLive — a platform used by a number of far-right figures to live stream Capitol chaos — has banned several far-right figures in the last few days.
That list now includes Vincent James Foxx, a holocaust denier and propagandist for a now-defunct white supremacist group.
You might've never heard of DLive before, but in addition to having little to no moderation before Jan. 6, DLive was monetizing extremism, allowing far-right figures to profit off its tipping mechanism, as @MeganSquire0 has pointed out.
The site was also taking a 20 percent cut since a policy change Jan. 1. Moreover, its owners were using right-wing figures as a business strategy to grow the platform's user base. nytimes.com/2021/01/08/tec…
Foxx founded The Red Elephants, an extreme-right site that promotes conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and white supremacy.
On DLive, Foxx had more than 20K subscribers and was pulling thousands of regular viewers giving him tips in an online currency redeemable for real cash as he ranted on his live streams.
He's already been banned from YouTube and other more mainstream platforms.
Foxx is now using this ban from DLive as a tool to get Telegram subscribers, advertise co-branded emergency food kits, and solicit donations to his Cash App (owned by Square, whose CEO is Twitter's CEO: @Jack).
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For days leading up to yesterday’s electoral college certification, posters used social media sites like Gab and Parler, encrypted messaging platforms like Telegram, and the pro-Trump forum The Donald to organize and share information.
Some messages on the pro-Trump forum The Donald urged the murders of Democratic leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Gov. Mike Dewine has signed SB175, the Ohio legislation that includes a "stand your ground" law despite opposition and his own hints that he might veto it because lawmakers refused to take up a modest gun reform package he proposed.
After a 2019 mass shooting in Dayton, Dewine faced calls from protesters to "do something." In response, he proposed an extremely modest reform agenda. The GOP-led legislature in Ohio has blocked his proposals.
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley: “Gov. DeWine came to our city and stood on stage for a vigil for our murdered friends and neighbors, and then told us he stood with our community in our fight against gun violence. Now it seems that he does not."
"We’re headed right back to where we were on April 1, and I don’t think there’s any appetite among the general population nor of our political leaders to do much more about it,” said Dr. Michael Saag, an infectious disease expert at UAB.
The racist, sexist and homophobic content runs the gamut from a 2018 defense of an Alabama student who used the n-word to a piece in 2016 entitled “Need cotton pickers.”