The 1986 sedition trial of members of The Order for trying to enact the Turner Diaries.
The feds raided a bunch of their compounds and seized a bunch of military hardware but what they did not seize was their computers. So they went underground and started communicating through early internet backchannels. Imagine 4chan but its purely boomer Nazis and KKK.
Also all but one of them was acquitted (by an all white jury of course) and the one that actually got convicted served no time.
They went to actual Stormfront, which got raided by 4chan, which caused Stormfront to raid them back, then some of the nazis discovered a new website with more traffic that would let them post anonymously.
I can actually pinpoint a more precise moment.
The 1986 sedition trial of members of The Order for trying to enact the Turner Diaries.
The feds raided a bunch of their compounds and seized a bunch of military hardware but what they did not seize was their computers. So they went underground and started communicating through early internet backchannels. Imagine 4chan but its purely boomer Nazis and KKK.
Also all but one of them was acquitted (by an all white jury of course) and the one that actually got convicted served no time.
I think a lot of them went to 4chan and pol given how much they love the turner diaries.
Yeah my point was that shit started way earlier than most people realize. The early internet was full of the absolute worst shit.
They went to actual Stormfront, which got raided by 4chan, which caused Stormfront to raid them back, then some of the nazis discovered a new website with more traffic that would let them post anonymously.