Historically white supremacism has led to a LOT of deaths - not only the Nazi atrocities, but also all the lynchings performed by the KKK, the Tulsa race massacre etc. I don't agree with any kind of nationalism, but I also don't think that those other types of supremacism are anywhere near as dangerous.
Isn’t this illegal and a wrong thing to do. Just because you don’t agree with ideology, you can’t just go ahead and destroy actual IP .
I’d think if the sites are based in the US and the owners decided to take action, they could force this activist to be extradited and face punishment.
The site, and the extended media presence are full of hardcore racist statements not protected under the German constitution, not considered legal expressions of free speech here. If you have seen the talk, you'd know the site/owner has been investigated by the German inland intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz), but due to incompetence they only got the wrong person fired... In fact, the "Q&A" intro to the deletion bit, references the executive's inaction.
Some information disclosure is also evidently in the public interest. For example the AfD representatives found are additional evidence for anti-constitutional sentiments within the AfD. This is highly relevant for a possible party prohibition process (which has an extremely high legal threshold).
After all, the website security was hilariously bad. (I suspect the members' IQ scores may have been largely self-diagnosed...)
From what I've gathered the publicized data has been somewhat anonymized. The victims of this hack should be rather happy the original data got nuked.
Also good luck extraditing the activist. It's pretty clear the pink power ranger on stage is a borrowed body, and/or, I presume, the voice heard is AI or borrowed recording, as well. OpSec seems alright. But you know, these days, the president of the United States may personally order the NSA and navy seals to snatch the Martha Root off the streets to uphold the holy rule of law and freedom of speech/expression...
To us Europeans White supremacists are like AlQaeda/Isis supporters in the middle of US declaring a legal right to fund a party which supports nuking Wall Street and Silicon Valley because they are 'inferior infidels'.
Interrupting communications it's a serious crime in Europe too, with either high fines or straight prison time, but ethically I feel nothing for the webmaster. The same if someone deleted the social network profiles (and the whole infra) of narco armies in Mexico.
> “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.
It's ironic that supremacists tend to be the worst examples of humanity.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 33.9 ms ] threadThe site, and the extended media presence are full of hardcore racist statements not protected under the German constitution, not considered legal expressions of free speech here. If you have seen the talk, you'd know the site/owner has been investigated by the German inland intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz), but due to incompetence they only got the wrong person fired... In fact, the "Q&A" intro to the deletion bit, references the executive's inaction.
Some information disclosure is also evidently in the public interest. For example the AfD representatives found are additional evidence for anti-constitutional sentiments within the AfD. This is highly relevant for a possible party prohibition process (which has an extremely high legal threshold).
After all, the website security was hilariously bad. (I suspect the members' IQ scores may have been largely self-diagnosed...) From what I've gathered the publicized data has been somewhat anonymized. The victims of this hack should be rather happy the original data got nuked.
Also good luck extraditing the activist. It's pretty clear the pink power ranger on stage is a borrowed body, and/or, I presume, the voice heard is AI or borrowed recording, as well. OpSec seems alright. But you know, these days, the president of the United States may personally order the NSA and navy seals to snatch the Martha Root off the streets to uphold the holy rule of law and freedom of speech/expression...
Justice follows the law, not the whims of hacktivism.
Interrupting communications it's a serious crime in Europe too, with either high fines or straight prison time, but ethically I feel nothing for the webmaster. The same if someone deleted the social network profiles (and the whole infra) of narco armies in Mexico.
It's ironic that supremacists tend to be the worst examples of humanity.
Maybe put a bounty for their prosecution and conviction.