Comment by bitexploder
9 years ago
It is also an ideal ground for groups with bad intentions to manipulate folks. Who is actually operating those keyboards? What are their actual motives?
9 years ago
It is also an ideal ground for groups with bad intentions to manipulate folks. Who is actually operating those keyboards? What are their actual motives?
> Who is actually operating those keyboards?
Your usual neighbour's 18-year old son.
> What are their actual motives?
For the 'lulz' of course.
> For the 'lulz' of course.
So how does one distinguish between a genuine kill-all-the-scum Nazi, and a child who's pretending to be one, for the lulz? You get lulz from people who get upset. And you get lulz from people who agree with you. It's a win-win.
Ultimately, there's no way to tell. It's a textbook example of Poe's Law. And indeed, there's no observable difference. Maybe everyone behind Nazi sites are in it for the lulz. And/or for the money, or fame. You get the same fucked up social impacts, either way.
When they start dressing the part, take part in torch carrying marches shouting slogans about mass murder.
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Do you think various groups trying to influence politics and culture would try to manipulate this impressionable group? For the lulz is an easy way to sweep aside the very real, and likely, possibility that state actors manipulate these anonymous boards for their own ends.