A bunch of childless soy boy faggots and crazy rainbow haired feminazi cunts," reads one post from the Vice City Telegram channel about Miami Against Fascism's issues with Twitter.
"We will not relent till your page is erased from existence. "Our goal is not to personally harass individuals, just to create sunshine and exposure. "We do not publish any info that shows home address, we don't publish personal numbers," Diego says. Our goal broadly is to expose the far-right and far-right extremism."įar-right activists have repeatedly accused Miami Against Fascism of doxxing, the practice of gathering and posting someone's personal identifying information online for malicious purposes.īut Diego argues that the account only posts social-media screenshots of people in public places and redacts private phone numbers, addresses, and contact information.
The way the policy is being enforced is not protecting marginalized people - it's doing the opposite," says Diego, who runs the account and spoke to New Times on the condition that his full name not be published for fear of retaliation. "We started in July of this year when the Proud Boys began doxxing local Black Lives Matter activists and hold meet and greet events, that's when we said we needed to organize proactively against this. We knew far-right actors would attempt to weaponize the policy to attack anti-fascist researchers and evade accountability. Twitter temporarily froze the account less than 24 hours after the policy went into effect. yyQImUSga8- It's Going Down DecemThe person behind Miami Against Fascism tells New Times the account received 31 notices to take down content. Horvater's message mentioned leftist Twitter accounts to target, including at least one Miami handle, Almost every day Miami Against Fascism publishes lengthy Twitter threads listing photos, screenshots, and information on local members of the far-right hate group the Proud Boys and other local right-wing activists who organize anti-vaccine and -mask protests across South Florida.īacked by the #ProudBoys, neo-Nazi leader Tony Hovater, who once took orders from Matthew Heimbach, known for advocating genocide of all Jews, says that the new policy works "more in our favor," and encourages mass reporting of accounts reporting on the far-Right. Anyone with a Twitter account should be reporting doxxing posts from the following accounts to deplatform," wrote Tony Hovater, the Ohio-based founder of the neo-Nazi group Traditionalist Workers Party and leader of the anti-Semitic group National Justice Party, in a Telegram message that was widely circulated in other channels. "Due to the new privacy policy at Twitter things now unexpectedly work more in our favor as we can take down Antifa faggot doxxing pages more easily. “Being able to maximize the long-term value of our IPs while at the same time maintaining solid financial targets highlights the increasing recurring nature of our revenues, the strength of our portfolio of franchises, confidence in our holiday season release slate, and current supportive industry dynamics.Last week, Twitter announced a new privacy policy prohibiting photos and media of private persons without their consent, in an effort to prevent users from using the platform "to harass" and "intimidate."Īlmost immediately, far-right hate groups began wielding the new safeguard to harass and intimidate leftist activists by coordinating the mass reporting of all posts with photos to lock their foes out of their accounts and stifle their online presence. “Despite having moved Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine to 2021-22 to leverage their full potential in the context of production challenges caused by COVID-19, our new non-IFRS operating income targets for 2020-21 remain within the boundaries we set back in May,” Ubisoft chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet said. This move comes as a result of production delays due to the complications of the pandemic and work-from-home. Ubisoft announced these delays in its first-half financial report today.
The unfortunately named Rainbow Six: Quarantine is also still coming, but the publisher is scheduling for that same period.
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