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[–] riot@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Goldberg was also active on Twitter, Reddit, Disqus and others under the username MoonMetropolis,[7] a "free speech absolutist" who was involved with the Gamergate controversy. He would frequently use this persona to criticize the works of his other personas such as anti-free speech activist Tanya Cohen, arguing against points that he himself had made.[38]

Sums up a lot of modern political discourse pretty well imo. This kind of person, making disingenuous arguments against themselves, maybe for some reasons but mostly because they are insane.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In 2015, he wrote an article titled 'Yes, Diversity is About Getting Rid of White People (and That's a Good Thing)' attributing it to a fake author named "Emily Goldstein". The article was later retweeted by Elon Musk.

Crazy to think about the butterfly effect and how much societal damage one person can cause...

Yet the FBI don't surveil Musk. I mean, even before Patel rendered it the Homer Simpson of alphabet agencies.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's insane that he pretended to be terrorists of Islamist, feminist, white supremacist, and Zionist origins, but the only one any government cared about in any way was the Islamist terrorists persona. It's also insane that he was convicted of being an Islamist terrorist when it's clear that he wasn't an Islamist because they knew about all the personas.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If he didn't do anything criminal under those other personas, what would they prosecute him for? Most of his activities were just not crimes, but covered under free speech; giving someone bomb-making instructions in the belief that he's actually going to commit terrorist attacks is not.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Australi Witness passed specific[22] information on the manufacture of a bomb targeting a September 11 memorial event in Kansas City, Missouri, to an FBI informant, who was posing as a Muslim extremist.

We can't say how much of this deal was set up by the government and how much was his initiative. If this was a Honeypot and they caught a mentally ill man from it the question is are they running similar set ups for other "extremist" groups. If they're just targeting Islamic groups then that shows some racism.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not to mention they could have set up the trap for ANY of his personas and it would have worked the same. Creating fake crime just to put people in jail.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't this entrapment? I learned about it on The Wire

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, most of what the FBI does is entrapment. They use the dumbest excuses to get away with it.

Truly the easiest job in the world, you invent crimes then arrest other people for them!