If you are on the internet at all these days, you can't miss adverts for VPN services. I think basically every YouTuber takes a sponsorship from one. I don't think they are an weird niche t… (View Post)

It amazing how fast some people are desceding into pretty authoritian solutions, ban twitter, VPNs, have the government spy on everybody. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the organising of the… (View Post)

Yes. I think a more interesting question is who are the ones organising. Once a mob forms, we know there are psychological principles that people feel emboldened to do things they would never otherwi… (View Post)

I think its more complicated. Football hooligans have famously been made up of a surprising number of people who aren't working class, its a weird hobby for them to get involved in a punch up at… (View Post)

When it comes to things like verify from video, geolocate etc, it is a really specialist skill pioneered by Bellingcat, but nobody believes they don't also have access to means that a) are publi… (View Post)