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I'm going to ignore your meanness

What I was speaking to, sarcastically, was the idea that the far-right has a "beachhead on anews" and the ensuing paranoia of that view. As if people in the comments aren't capable of being critical and capable of calling things bullshit when they see them as such. Yes, cops, far right, stalinists, whatever can and have posted here anonymously for over a decade. Do you think there is some simple solution to that? Aggressive moderation was news.infoshop.org's style and it basically killed conversation that didn't fit the ideas of the moderator (particularly anti-organizationalist and insurrectionary anarchist type commenters were heavily moderated). After all these years I don't see there being some spooky fascist undercurrent to anews. I DO see anews as filling a void that IGD etc are not able to with the way they run their sites. I DO think that the talking points prescriptive style of writing at the end of every (many?) IGD article is dumb, but perhaps :p I am not their target audience.

I don't know where you got the idea that I think "the most vile, extreme, bigoted trollbait" should stay posted to anews. In fact the commenter I was replying to didn't even seem to be talking about vile extreme bigoted trollbait, but a more crypto entryism. The nasty stuff you are talking about is either irrelevant/off topic or ad hominem and thecollective seems to do a pretty good job of dealing with it. I also think thecollective does a good job sticking to what is already stated in the about section of the site (apparently some need to be reminded of this):

About "anarchism": We recognize that there are many different definitions of anarchism out there, as well as many different kinds of people who call themselves anarchist. We do not seek to promote one uniform definition of anarchism, but we do have some broad outlines for what we think fits inside that term. For starters, we consider anarchism to be an outlook that is fundamentally opposed to the existence of capitalism and the state, regardless of what forms they may take. One may also go further and say that anarchism is opposed to all forms of social hierarchy, authority and/or domination. And to be more specific, anarchism in our eyes does NOT include "anarcho-capitalism" or "national anarchism".

"So now, back to the meaty stuff... Any idea of why an anarchist oultlet should contribute to the spread of racist Far Right bigotry, or any other authoritarian bullshit, on the net? Just text me when you got a straight answer, silly boi. Thanks!"

I think you are taking a very ungenerous read of my post with this question. Does being a relatively open platform equal contributing to the spread of racist far right bigotry? How would you quantify and measure anews' contribution to such spread? As if that were even possible. I appreciate that anews is less echo chamber-y than other places while also not being 4chan.

If you want to talk about irrational equations, I guess you and I both are guilty of reductio ad absurdum fallacy in this thread.

-your silly boi