The French government has arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, while the Brazilian government is going ahead with a ban on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Both platforms have been central to far-right organizing—for example, publicizing targets during the recent wave of fascist attacks in Britain. Telegram claims to provide encryption, but unlike Tor and Signal, refuses to expose its model to public scrutiny, which suggests that there is a backdoor.
The white supremacist billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter in order to return Donald Trump and various neo-Nazis to the platform. While Musk pretends the conflict with the Brazilian judiciary is about "free speech," he enthusiastically complies with orders from far-right governments such as the government of India to suspend the accounts of grassroots organizers. He banned us at the explicit request of a well-known fascist as soon as he took control of Twitter. His priority is to promote fascism, not protect speech.
Both platforms have been central to far-right organizing—for example, publicizing targets during the recent wave of fascist attacks in Britain. Telegram claims to provide encryption, but unlike Tor and Signal, refuses to expose its model to public scrutiny, which suggests that there is a backdoor.
The white supremacist billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter in order to return Donald Trump and various neo-Nazis to the platform. While Musk pretends the conflict with the Brazilian judiciary is about "free speech," he enthusiastically complies with orders from far-right governments such as the government of India to suspend the accounts of grassroots organizers. He banned us at the explicit request of a well-known fascist as soon as he took control of Twitter. His priority is to promote fascism, not protect speech.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
The French government has arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, while the Brazilian government is going ahead with a ban on the platform formerly known as Twitter. Both platforms have been central to far-right organizing—for example, publicizing targets during…
But letting state institutions clamp down on these platforms sets a bad precedent, which could endanger other means of encryption and communication in the future. If we let the state fight our battles for us, they will use the same approaches to repress us, too. It would be better to abandon, undermine, abolish, and replace Telegram and Twitter ourselves.
https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary
https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary
CrimethInc.
Canary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media
Is there life after social media? Will reactionary billionaires determine all we can imagine and do, or will we establish other forms of connection?
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O governo francês prendeu o CEO do Telegram, Pavel Durov, enquanto o governo brasileiro segue em frente com o bloqueio da rede anteriormente conhecida como Twitter.
Ambas as plataformas têm sido fundamentais para a organização da extrema-direita – por exemplo, a divulgação de alvos durante a recente onda de ataques fascistas na Grã-Bretanha. O Telegram afirma fornecer criptografia, mas, diferentemente do Tor e do Signal, se recusa a expor seu modelo ao escrutínio público.
O bilionário supremacista branco Elon Musk comprou o Twitter para devolver Donald Trump e vários neonazistas à plataforma. Embora Musk finja que o conflito com o judiciário brasileiro seja sobre “liberdade de expressão”, ele cumpre com entusiasmo as ordens de governos de extrema direita, como o governo da Índia, de suspender as contas dos organizadores de movimentos sociais. Ele baniu nossas páginas a pedido explícito de um fascista conhecido assim que assumiu o controle do Twitter. A sua prioridade é promover o fascismo – e não proteger o livre discurso.
Mas permitir que as instituições estatais reprimam estas plataformas abre um mau precedente, que pode pôr em perigo outros meios de encriptação e comunicação no futuro. Se deixarmos o Estado travar estas batalhas em nosso lugar, eles também usarão as mesmas estratégias para nos reprimir. Seria melhor abandonar e substituir nós mesmos o Telegram e o Twitter.
https://crimethinc.com/2022/11/25/elon-musk-derruba-crimethinc-no-twitter-atendendo-a-troll-das-extrema-direita
#Português
Ambas as plataformas têm sido fundamentais para a organização da extrema-direita – por exemplo, a divulgação de alvos durante a recente onda de ataques fascistas na Grã-Bretanha. O Telegram afirma fornecer criptografia, mas, diferentemente do Tor e do Signal, se recusa a expor seu modelo ao escrutínio público.
O bilionário supremacista branco Elon Musk comprou o Twitter para devolver Donald Trump e vários neonazistas à plataforma. Embora Musk finja que o conflito com o judiciário brasileiro seja sobre “liberdade de expressão”, ele cumpre com entusiasmo as ordens de governos de extrema direita, como o governo da Índia, de suspender as contas dos organizadores de movimentos sociais. Ele baniu nossas páginas a pedido explícito de um fascista conhecido assim que assumiu o controle do Twitter. A sua prioridade é promover o fascismo – e não proteger o livre discurso.
Mas permitir que as instituições estatais reprimam estas plataformas abre um mau precedente, que pode pôr em perigo outros meios de encriptação e comunicação no futuro. Se deixarmos o Estado travar estas batalhas em nosso lugar, eles também usarão as mesmas estratégias para nos reprimir. Seria melhor abandonar e substituir nós mesmos o Telegram e o Twitter.
https://crimethinc.com/2022/11/25/elon-musk-derruba-crimethinc-no-twitter-atendendo-a-troll-das-extrema-direita
#Português
CrimethInc.
Elon Musk derruba CrimethInc. no Twitter atendendo a Troll da Extrema-Direita
No dia 25 de novembro, a pedido de um troll de extrema direita, Elon Musk baniu a conta @crimethinc no Twitter.
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1 сентября 2020 года погиб Алексей Сократ Сутуга. В память о нем медиапроект CrimethInc подготовил предисловие к английской версии книги о погибшем - Socrates the Skinhead: The Life of a Russian Anti-Fascist
On 1 September 2020, Alexei Socrates Sutuga died. In his memory, the media project CrimethInc prepared a foreword to the English version of the book about the deceased - Socrates the Skinhead: The Life of a Russian Anti-Fascist:
https://ru.crimethinc.com/2024/04/24/we-too-remember-aleksei-sutuga-the-life-of-a-russian-anarchist-and-anti-fascist
On 1 September 2020, Alexei Socrates Sutuga died. In his memory, the media project CrimethInc prepared a foreword to the English version of the book about the deceased - Socrates the Skinhead: The Life of a Russian Anti-Fascist:
https://ru.crimethinc.com/2024/04/24/we-too-remember-aleksei-sutuga-the-life-of-a-russian-anarchist-and-anti-fascist
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We will be tabling on September 7 at the Sacramento Anarchist Book Fair. Come pick up some zines, posters, books, and stickers and get connected with anarchist projects around the region.
https://www.instagram.com/sacramentoanarchistbookfair/
If you can't make it, you can always order from us here:
https://crimethinc.com/store
https://www.instagram.com/sacramentoanarchistbookfair/
If you can't make it, you can always order from us here:
https://crimethinc.com/store
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Vagabondaggi queer nell’altra Germania e nel mondo sotterraneo antinazista
Un’invocazione
https://crimethinc.com/2024/08/19/vagabondaggi-queer-nellaltra-germania-e-nel-mondo-sotterraneo-antinazista-uninvocazione
Una fiorente clandestinità omosessuale esisteva prima e anche durante l'ascesa del Terzo Reich. Cosa può insegnarci oggi la resistenza queer al nazismo?
#Italiano
Un’invocazione
https://crimethinc.com/2024/08/19/vagabondaggi-queer-nellaltra-germania-e-nel-mondo-sotterraneo-antinazista-uninvocazione
Una fiorente clandestinità omosessuale esisteva prima e anche durante l'ascesa del Terzo Reich. Cosa può insegnarci oggi la resistenza queer al nazismo?
#Italiano
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"Labor Day" is an ersatz holiday created to sap momentum from May Day, the day of revolutionary resistance established by anarchists.
Let's not simply ask for more crumbs from the table—let's fight for the abolition of capitalism and work itself.
https://crimethinc.com/antiwork
"When we say anti-work, we don’t mean an abstract political position disapproving of work; we mean a practice that actively abolishes the necessity to work, the way that anti-matter annihilates matter. In other words, an activity aimed at doing away with all the mechanisms that serve to concentrate power—from debt to intellectual property rights and the prison-industrial complex. All the things that force us to keep putting our noses back to the grindstone when there are so many other things we’d prefer to be doing."
Let's not simply ask for more crumbs from the table—let's fight for the abolition of capitalism and work itself.
https://crimethinc.com/antiwork
"When we say anti-work, we don’t mean an abstract political position disapproving of work; we mean a practice that actively abolishes the necessity to work, the way that anti-matter annihilates matter. In other words, an activity aimed at doing away with all the mechanisms that serve to concentrate power—from debt to intellectual property rights and the prison-industrial complex. All the things that force us to keep putting our noses back to the grindstone when there are so many other things we’d prefer to be doing."
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In 1930, the German state of Thuringia was the first in which the Nazi Party won the elections. This week, the fascist party Alternative für Deutschland won the highest number of votes in Thuringia. The resurgence of fascism in Germany is reflected in a wave of Nazi street violence around the country.
Around the world, neoliberal regimes have brutally repressed anti-capitalist movements, creating a situation in which fascists can pretend to represent the only alternative. Fascism will continue to gain momentum until we create grassroots movements that can crush it while addressing the problems capitalism creates.
Background:
https://crimethinc.com/Germany2024
Around the world, neoliberal regimes have brutally repressed anti-capitalist movements, creating a situation in which fascists can pretend to represent the only alternative. Fascism will continue to gain momentum until we create grassroots movements that can crush it while addressing the problems capitalism creates.
Background:
https://crimethinc.com/Germany2024
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On a lighter note, we draw your attention to this review of Europe's Fusion Festival, penned by a CrimethInc. agent for Montreal's new hardcore punk underground publication, The Counterforce.
https://the-counterforce.org/fusion-festival-xxv-scene-report/
https://the-counterforce.org/fusion-festival-xxv-scene-report/
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We are outraged by the murder of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli occupying forces in the West Bank. It calls to mind the murder of Rachel Corrie, another US citizen who was in Palestine doing solidarity work, by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2003.
Their names are widely known, but no one knows all the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have been senselessly murdered over the last several months for the sake of racism and colonialism. This illustrates the dehumanization and erasure of Palestinians, which is an affront to the humanity of all people.
May the courage of those who have endured oppression and the bravery of those who risk their lives in solidarity move us all to do what it takes to create a world without genocidal violence.
One of the witnesses of the murder of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was the anarchist Jonathan Pollak. You can read his perspective on the genocide in Palestine here:
https://crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide
Their names are widely known, but no one knows all the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have been senselessly murdered over the last several months for the sake of racism and colonialism. This illustrates the dehumanization and erasure of Palestinians, which is an affront to the humanity of all people.
May the courage of those who have endured oppression and the bravery of those who risk their lives in solidarity move us all to do what it takes to create a world without genocidal violence.
One of the witnesses of the murder of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was the anarchist Jonathan Pollak. You can read his perspective on the genocide in Palestine here:
https://crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide
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Today is the birthday of Dmitry Petrov, a Russian anarchist who was killed last year while resisting the invasion of Ukraine. Dmitry spent his life fighting authoritarianism; his story offers a snapshot of two decades of anarchist activity in the post-Soviet world. You can read about him here:
https://crimethinc.com/Petrov
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https://crimethinc.com/Petrov
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Today is the birthday of Dmitry Petrov, a Russian anarchist who was killed last year while resisting the invasion of Ukraine. Dmitry spent his life fighting authoritarianism; his story offers a snapshot of two decades of anarchist activity in the post-Soviet…
In the words of Dmitry's father,
"Brothers and sisters! I am writing about my son. He is my flesh and blood. He is my best friend. And my main opponent. A gifted scholar. A talented author. A brave man. Willing to go all the way. For what he stands for and what he believes in. He’s my hero.
"When talking about him, my wife and I don’t use the past tense. Just the present. And the future. He is perhaps the only absolutely whole person I know. He always and in everything follows the dictates of his conscience and the ideas that unite us. At the same time, he is not only an ideological and straightforward person. He is not only a gifted scientist who studied the Russian North 'in the field' and Kurdistan in the desert. And not only the author and editor of many articles and several books.
"One should read his recent texts and see that he is a strategist of the movement that today opens new horizons... To discover new things. To be free to define yourself in a world that does everything it can to prevent it. To be able to make the right choices. To be clear about your values and act on them. To love those close to you. And love those far away. But also to pay attention."
"Brothers and sisters! I am writing about my son. He is my flesh and blood. He is my best friend. And my main opponent. A gifted scholar. A talented author. A brave man. Willing to go all the way. For what he stands for and what he believes in. He’s my hero.
"When talking about him, my wife and I don’t use the past tense. Just the present. And the future. He is perhaps the only absolutely whole person I know. He always and in everything follows the dictates of his conscience and the ideas that unite us. At the same time, he is not only an ideological and straightforward person. He is not only a gifted scientist who studied the Russian North 'in the field' and Kurdistan in the desert. And not only the author and editor of many articles and several books.
"One should read his recent texts and see that he is a strategist of the movement that today opens new horizons... To discover new things. To be free to define yourself in a world that does everything it can to prevent it. To be able to make the right choices. To be clear about your values and act on them. To love those close to you. And love those far away. But also to pay attention."
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A sighting of our "You can't kill an idea" sticker in the wild—to be precise, in Ester, Alaska, population 2,416.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1387740828/eggshell-sticker-municipal-adhesives-x
We are everywhere!🏴
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1387740828/eggshell-sticker-municipal-adhesives-x
We are everywhere!🏴
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