Does the online far-right enable terrorism?

It's been a notable thing recently that a lot of the recent mass shootings are by people who were knee deep in online cultures such as 4 chan.

By 'ironically' talking about awful things, the most rightwards section of the Internet seems to be a cultivating ground for these people. I have met people on SW who I think would have been part of this radicalisation process.

It starts with theories of cultural war between peoples, moves to etno nationalism and ends with what happened in New Zealand.

Do the Christchurch shootings expose the murderous nature of ‘ironic’ online fascism?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/15/do-the-christchurch-shootings-expose-the-murderous-nature-of-ironic-online-fascism?

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Northwest · M

Back in the day, they had their Beer Halls, now it's social media. I don't believe social media creates extremism, but it sure seems to enable them. For certain, it serves as a distribution means for their atrocities.

I am not advocating controls over social media. Look at SW for instance. How many WallNutters were ever swayed by the honest to goodness truth? How would the actual truth affect the opinions of people like missep or jack? They will simply go into more spin.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Northwest I'm not advocating control either however as a culture, we need to get to terms with this. The net provides a safe space where those who desire can hunt out like minded people and create a bubble around themselves. No amount of control would stop that anyway.