Goyim TV, an online anti-Semitic video sharing page that promoted Saturday with a “banner” over a Los Angeles Freeway overpass, was dismantled through its domain host under an avalanche of complaints.
Jon Minadeo Jr., a 37-year-old from Petaluma, was the online page and banner, J. reported earlier this week, as did a handful of Minadeo friends known as the “Goyim Defense League.”
However, a few days after Goyim TV disconnected, Minadeo directed its fans to a similar site, which broadcast the same hateful ideology, in BitChute, a UK-based company described through a London-based Jewish security company as a “sewer” of racists. . anti-Semitic content. I’d look for money through cryptocurrencies.
The immediate resurgence of Minadeo’s videos, on another channel, reflects the challenge of controlling hate-breathing Internet sites, and the whack-a-mole-type effort it can take through anti-hate teams and involved members of the public to confront them.
“That’s why it happened with the Daily Stormer’s website and other bad actors,” said Seth Brysk, director of the Central Pacific Region of the SF-based Anti-Defamation League.
The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer rejected through several domain registrars after the highly anti-Semitic demonstration of Unite the Right 2017 in Charlottesville, but eventually discovered a new host at the Canadian company BitMitigate, whose discoverer at the time cited “a commitment to freedom”. “
“Online standards of behavior, regulations and legislation are still evolving,” Brysk added. “The public can and will have to continue to play a role in the fight against harassment, lying and extremism.”
It turns out that’s precisely what happened to Goyim TV, which had been hosted since December through Epik, a domain registrar with more than 560,000 Internet sites according to DomainState.
The 3 posters painted selling Goyim TV, which read “Touch the horn if you know Jews need a race war” and hung over the busy I-405, surprised the Jewish network in Los Angeles and caught the attention of organizations like the American. Jewish Committee and the ADL.
The incident was reported in the media across the country and in Israel, and an Epik spokesman told J. that the company had won a series of “anonymous Gmail reports” challenging his hosting of the site.
The nonprofit StopAntisemitism.org, which monitors the internet for antisemitic content, reported that “hundreds of complaints” were made to the web host.
Epik’s spokesman told J. that the company had won court cases on both sides: those who asked for the online page to be deleted and those who asked otherwise. Many of them were accompanied by violent threats, some of which were shared through the spokesman with J.
“Unfortunately, we never won in those cases,” wrote the person, who asked Anonymous for his own safety.
“An online page is opening: we have three hundred court cases that call us neo-Nazis and precursors of death,” they said. “We eliminate it – we have three hundred court cases that say we’re [we’re] fascists, threatening to put bullets in our heads.”
The user stated that Epik had deleted the online page “a few hours” after receiving the complaints, and that after attempting the platform owner to delete the objectionable content, it had failed.
Publicly, on Twitter, Epik to some of his criticisms.
“Freedom of expression does not enter our house, claims war on an organization of others because of their faith or creed, does not post videos inviting them to be killed through a horrible genocide and then celebrates the paintings that have been made,” the tweet reads.
But on Thursday, the channel hosted through BitChute, called Handsome Truth GDL (for the Goyim Defense League), the same content from the old Goyim TV website.
This content largely includes wild anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, photographs of Minadeo’s mobile phones and others driving through California and shouting anti-Semitic words (often through a megaphone) and other far-right conspiracy theories (over the coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Black. Lives Matter Movement, for example).
BitChute, according to the company, earns $23485 per month, what it calls network investment sources.
The transfer written on Twitter, where Minadeo’s account, Verdad Guapa, remains active. It implied that theArray withdrawal, of course, a Jewish conspiracy.
“You know who temporarily closed GTV,” Handsome Truth posted. “But I have a string of whingeArray … so, please GO SUB… and IRL [in genuine life] activists like me and others.”
Gabe Stutman is J. Follow him’s editor-in-chief on Twitter @jnewsgabe.
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Goyim TV, Jon Minadeo