WILL “LIVE STREAMING” BECOME RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE AMERICAN DEATHS?
…Wouldn’t you know it, Nick Fuentes of DLive
believes in Donald Trump & MAGA
Nick Fuentes on DLive told his audience that “[Kamala] Harris hates
white people”.
You may recall last February, when the US News
networks reported that a doctor in Wuhan, China, had warned of a deadly new
novel virus. This same doctor later died
from the novel coronavirus.
Unfortunately, at that same time in the US,
thousands of Americans were tuning into a new set of fast growing “alt-tech”,
live streaming channels that are the locations for far-right provocateurs,
white nationalists, and other hate-speech and conspiracy theorists.
As an example of these degenerates who
broadcasts on the new DLive, live streaming platform, which also charges for
subscriptions like a normal person would subscribe for Disney Plus or Netflix. This one DLive broadcaster, Nick Fuentes, he
has appeared to have earned over $140,000 off of his DLive, America First,
streams, which has made him one of the most viewed accounts on the new DLive
platform.
To give you an idea of what you can hear from
Mr. Fuentes, here are a few quotes from his broadcasts right after the
Coronavirus came to America:
“I’ve been informed that you’re only
susceptible to this virus if you’re Asian.
I think we white folk will be OK.”
Eight
of the top-10 earners on the DLive platform this year, that was ranked by Social
Blade, a social media analytics website that says these "eight earners included
far-right commentators, white national extremists and conspiracy theorists".
As the
US public places were shutting-down in March from the “sheltering-in-place”
rules, millions of Americans were switching to logging in on DLive. These live streaming sectors in the US soared
by 45%, just from March to April. TIME
magazine has reviewed these sites and as the mainstream media platforms cracked down
on their far-right propagandists, the other on-line streaming audiences grew
by the millions. The DLive stream as an
example, has continued to rake-in more money, hand over fist!
In one
of their more extreme cases, the DLive cameras decide to start a: “film-you
hospital” series. This was where
they showed videos of a lack of patients in their fake hospitals, therefore this was, “proof
that Covid-19 was fake.”
It was
also learned that it doesn’t take much to set off a new kind of terror attack, if
you only follow these type of live streamers.
Over
the past two years, terrorists inspired by on-line right-wing propaganda have live-streamed
deadly attacks in New Zealand and Germany.
In March, 2019, a Florida man who had been radicalized by far-right
media and on-line conspiracy theorists, he pleaded guilty to sending more than a
dozen pipe-bombs to prominent critics of President Trump. A month later, a man with an AR-15 assault
rifle, shot 4 people, killing one, in a synagogue in Southern California. This was after posting a racist and
anti-Semitic screed on the live-streaming site: “8Chan.” Then 3 months later, a man killed 23 people
at a Walmart in Texas, also after posting a racist manifesto on-line.
The
Covid-19 outbreak arrived during a period of re-invention of the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA. If you remember, this is where there were American protesters rallying against the white nationalists, KKK and Neo-Nazi’s parading
at the rally, and where President Trump had said “There were good people on
both sides” attending.
Even
though Facebook, PayPal, YouTube, Twitter, Amazon and GoFundMe,
have all shut down accounts that are run by far-right agitators, neo-Nazi’s and
white supremacists, these live stream sites have built a devoted audience that
will follow them anywhere.
It was
one of the original creators of YouTube that had a lot to do with
DLive’s streaming success.
Felix
Kjellberg, formerly with YouTube, became involved with DLive, and
through that association DLive grew 67% over a two month period. Kjellberg had become known back in early 2018
when he came under fire for his anti-Semitic jokes and racists remarks. At the time, 94,000 people signed a Change.org
petition to ban his streaming channel from YouTube. DLive’s approach to live streaming was the
perfect location for Mr. Kjellberg to end up.
The
emigration of hate speech to far-flung corners of the internet could make it
even harder to track. This increases the
risk that it will spill into our off-line world.
Experts
say that law-enforcement and national security agencies are unprepared to
tackle this right-wing extremism. They
lack the expertise, not only in the rapidly evolving technology, but also in
the ideological ecosystem that has spawned a battery of far-right movements.
Recent
incidents show how this online environment that blends political commentary and
hate speech can be extremely dangerous.
An 18 year old accused of firebombing a Delaware, Planned Parenthood
Clinic, was identified through his Instagram profile, which
contained far-right memos reflecting his popular beliefs in the very young, white-nationalists movement.
Just
this last June, Facebook deactivated nearly 200 social-media accounts
with ties to white-nationalists groups rallying members to attack Black
Lives Matter protests. In some
cases, those against the BLM protesters were armed with loaded weapons.
When
Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate, Nick Fuentes on DLive told
his audience that “Harris hates white people,” and that “She is going
to use the full weight of the federal government to destroy conservatives and
anybody that speaks up for whirte people”.
This is the kind of rhetoric that the law is up against.
And
just how does DLive look when compared to those that are subscribers on YouTube?
Well, when Fuentes was broadcasting on a day that YouTube had 6,100 concurrent viewers, Fuente’s show had 9,000!
The
whole thing is getting out of hand.
Copyright
G. Ater 2020
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