Wednesday, 22 April 2020

How an "old hippie" got accused of astroturfing the right-wing campaign to reopen the economy

quote [ “I realized all these fringe guys are gonna get a hold of these websites, So I went out and bought ‘em up that night,” he told me. The financial burden of thwarting fringe-right groups? “It cost me about four grand,” Murphy said. “I don’t have the money quite frankly. I was just trying to do something good. I’m in massive credit debt to do this.” ]

The many faces of digital protest: an analysis, suggests that the original registration was a scamming scheme for money.
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steele said @ 5:19pm GMT on 22nd Apr
I used to do something similar with expired domains that were in still active keyloggers and bot clients. Had my own script that monitored requests for each domain to let me when they'd gone dormant and could be released back into the wild.

Also, read Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer!!!

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