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Open-source intelligence analysts reported that Crooks didn’t appear to use mainstream social media channels such as Facebook or Instagram and had an almost negligible internet footprint, which is highly unusual for a 20-year-old. Instead, analysts said that Crooks corresponded with friends and associates on a Discord server that they were now trying to access.
Discord servers are restricted ring-fenced sections of the internet. They are often used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms but are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.
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I feel like it’s not that weird for a 20 year old not to have a Facebook and only use Discord.
He also played a violent new video game that has just recently been discovered, called “Fortnite,” and described himself as having “skibidi rizz” but not being a “sussy baka.” These slang terms are gang lingo used by only the most dangerous terrorists.
I’m 26 and my peers are mixed on using Facebook. Some still have it to message relatives, and that’s about it. I cannot imagine many 20 year olds using it.
he was The One Never-Trump Republican democrats are always trying to convince
Shameful that the libs have thrown him under the bus like this.
If the same thing happened to Biden I’m almost certain mainstream Republicans would be saying things like “this is the people standing up against the woke mob, God Bless Them!”
Facebook or Instagram and had an almost negligible internet footprint, which is highly unusual for a 20-year-old. Instead, analysts said that Crooks corresponded with friends and associates on a Discord server that they were now trying to access.
The kids aren’t using facebook, and a lot of them also aren’t using Instagram. A 20 year old man using primarily discord is the most normal thing.
“intelligence” ““analyst”” being paid 6 figures to be absolutely fucking stupid and useless
yeah i do backgrounds on people for work and if you’re over 70, it’s hard to find you and if you’re under like 23 it’s really difficult as well.
First it was the nefarious CCP using TikTok to indoctrinate the naive youth into not liking genocide.
Now it’s the dangerous shady Discord servers allowing extremists (from both sides) to plot against Our Democracy™.
I would not be surprised to see some sort of police state crackdown on Discord and other non-public parts of the internet resulting from this.
Discord will have his data served up on a platter in no time. I don’t see anything changing because they already cooperate with the state heavily.
Yeah cracking down on Discord will just open up room for a foreign-hosted and privacy-conscious competitor to take over. As long as it’s an American company the NSA and Co have access to everything they need as if they were running the app as a honeypot.
Isn’t 4chan basically supervised by Feds at this point? The NSA already have access to Facebook and Google so it goes without saying that Discord is next. They want to ban TikTok because they can’t gain that level of access to their user data.
Why don’t zoomers rediscover Usenet and IRC? Can’t rely on corporate platforms at all.
I’m pretty sure I remember moot himself saying that he cooperated with law enforcement when they demanded IP adresses every time some 4channer broke the law.
It was from a court transcript somewhere, but you’re absolutely correct in assuming 4chan is heavily monitored and participated in by law enforcers, government officials and far right recruiters.
Why IRC and not Matrix?
Rabidly pro-Ukraine?
Wanted to kickstart helterskelter?
Trump was too left for his tastes?
Trump was too right for this Romneyite?
Gamer just wanted to get a Wikipedia page?
Trump was too right for this Romneyite?
The militant Mormon uprising has begun. Salt Lake City will stand for 1000 years.
HAIL THE WHITE PHAROAH
I thiunk he was a few inches too left.
Gamer just wanted to get a Wikipedia page?
almost certainly this one, you miss 100% of the shots you…do take apparently
the “Chinese shooter” revealed to be…
white guy in demolition ranch merch
cool, thanks for that NYPost
“Open source intelligence analysts”
“Redditors and Twitter users” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, y’know?
That’s just how you say “hack journalists who googled ‘Thomas Matthew Crooks Facebook’ for five minutes” when you’ve watched too much Mr. Robot.
Crook’s father told CNN he was trying to find out “what the hell” was going on but that he would talk to law enforcement before speaking about his son.
Mr Carriker reposted the photo of members of the US security forces standing over Crooks’ dead body, wearing the grey Demolition Ranch t-shirt.
“What the hell?” he wrote underneath the photo.
I’m revising my guess at motivations to being more like a school shooter but against a cool target.
this is where i was sitting at yesterday
It’s 100% gonna be Epstein/Save the Children/QAnon. There was a story (apparently fake, but only
-types say so) going around a few weeks ago about Trump being reinvestigated for Epstein behavior. I think it was only Pinocchio’d a few days ago, so I could definitely see the deboonking not having filtered into the Q space before this heroic moron bought a ticket to the cool zone.This is my take as well. If this were at all politically motivated, we would be reading his manifesto right now. Or at least his unhinged posts on 4chan/facebook. The fact that there are none of those things leads me to believe that this is just a guy who wanted to be epic. The target was irrelevant, if it was Genocide Joe on that stage he would have still taken the shot.
It’s super cool how the US is so depoliticized that this guy is just some random 20 year old groyper who yelled “hold my beer” and thnere’s no revolutionary cells or organized falandrists or anything.
depoliticized
Bluntened… as to make their teeth and guns less injurious…
Discord servers are restricted ring-fenced sections of the internet. They are often used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms but are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.
Fuck, they know about our discord where we push for a Protracted People’s War in the United SStates of AmeriKKKa.
as secure chat rooms
Nobody is using a Discord server as a “secure” chat room. What is that even supposed to mean?
“The gunman’s Discord server mod refused to send me an invite link. Their security is un-breachable.”
The highest form of security: not letting lame people join your club.
I will simply not invite the CIA to my Marxist Leninist Maoist Guerilla server
Some people are just deeply unserious and think Discord is encrypted (it isn’t).
It’s to make tech illiterate boomers angry
its not secure but it is “private” enough for chatting/gaming with randoms (if your standards are low for data harvesting)
On one side I am totally unsurprised, but on the other side I was hoping this was going to be the worlds first instance of a lib with a spine. I don’t know why I got my hopes up
There can only be one liberal driller
the liberal driller wouldn’t have missed
The Liberal Driller let’s trouble come to him
Then he makes sure it troubles no one ever again
The Republican party is full of, and run by, crazies. Trying to find a coherent motive for this assassination attempt might not be possible.
where’s the archive linkForgive me comrade!
The bit about Discord is weird, it’s not like it’s some decentralized service, the company has access to everything on their servers if they want to.
I think they’re using a lot of words to say, “things said in a discord channel aren’t meant to be spread around to other internet services.”
how spooky scary!
open source intelligence is just a fancy word for PI’s. So I’m sure the feds have access, but they aren’t giving it to the media
