The internet is a great place to get information out to people who would otherwise be uninformed of matters that they need to know. For example, the wealth of information relating to the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center would have been hard to disseminate in the pre-internet age. Sadly the internet is also the home of child porn and other sickening phenomena.
On a political level, positive sites such as Final Conflict serve to get important information out to a wider audience. The flip side of the political internet lies in disinformation sites and slander sites. I speak specifically of the chat sites such as the Stormfront and VNN fora.
When Stormfront was created it was a useful tool for keeping a highly dispersed nationalist community linked. To this end it was beneficial to the movement as a whole. Similarly VNN served this function. However, over time these and similar sites have degenerated into places for internet warriors to attack one another. The energies expended in labelling erstwhile comrades as traitors is phenomenal. Notably, the sites tend to be used to attack people within the movement.
The result of all the mud-slinging is to give sites such as Searchlight & Indymedia a veritable armoury of propaganda to be used against the movement. Furthermore, the postings have an alarming tendency to contain disinformation and lies which can be used by the authorities to clamp down on the movement.
How many Police/State Security personnel post on Stormfront? Probably as many as study the site for information which will be of use in prosecuting or otherwise silencing political opponents of the State. People who believe they can post with anonimity are seriously deluded. The internet is monitored to a mind-boggling extent. Publishing anything which could be construed as inflammatory is beyond stupid; it is dangerous.
An annoying aspect of these fora is how they are used to make abusive and insulting attacks against individuals. Generally, these attacks begin as a result of an individual having a personal axe to grind, but they quickly snowball with uninformed idiots joining in the abuse, when in reality the issue has nothing to do with them. The moderators by allowing this despicable behaviour are condoning it. This is irresponsible in extremis.
I ask the moderators to be vigilant in stopping people using their sites to conduct personal slanging matches. I ask further for all who would be tempted to join in such juvenile and negative conduct to desist. If you truly care for your nation you will act in a positive manner in the real world, not in the way of a cyber village idiot.
I have not personally been abused on Stormfront. I do know people who have. This appeal for decency and sense is not for myself, but for the movement as a whole. Good activists have been hounded by such sites to the point where they have given up the struggle. This is a gift to the enemy. Until such time as the moderators of these fora take their roles seriously and stop this abuse, no one should have anything to do with their sites. I, for one, will not be visiting them.
