Site with over a million users and one of the biggest agitprop vehicles of the last five years and now it's private. Lol. Lmao.
Edit: Ok, now the mods are saying making the site private is only temporary while they "deal with the cleanup from ongoing brigading."
Apparently Fox News specifically asked to interview that particular mod so... :sus-torment:
And the guy interviewing them was apparently named Ryan Wrecker :agony-4horsemen:
Reality's really trying to get renewed for another season huh
It's a bit on the nose if you ask me :yea:
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:what-the-hell:
As they say, giving a bad defense of something does more harm than a good criticism of it.
The "Never Play Defense" strategy is basically inviolate when it comes to media presence, especially in the context of internet activity and communities. You can never, ever go into even marginally hostile environments to speak for a politically charged group, act with any form of contrition, and expect to walk away not having given your enemies free ammunition.
Going into an interview with Fox News without having he entire interview completely locked down on subject matter, questions, length of discussion, etc., is such a bad fucking idea that I'm amazed anyone on the mod team was not screaming at everyone else to just ignore the invitation.
Failure on the other mods who did not immediately have alarm bells ringing in there heads when a reactionary outlet is hand picking somebody.