


White supremacy was the number one domestic terrorist threat in America until it was toppled by parents at school board meetings, Catholics praying in front of abortion clinics, and now Christian nationalism. We've already seen from the Twitter files how heavy a thumb the federal government had on social media platforms like Twitter. But now the feds are going after sites frequented by gamers, who are the next domestic terrorist threat.
"The report warns of "extremists" using aesthetics, humor, and memes." Yes, memes.
This "Disinformation Primer" from the GAO warns that "problematic information" regularly originates from networks of alternative sites and anonymous individuals who have created their own "alt-media" online spaces: Reddit, 4Chan, Discord, and "gaming sites." To users, these spaces "enable them to collaborate and validate their own interpretations of the world that differ from "mainstream" sources.
This editor's son is a gamer who regularly chats with his friends on Discord. He's also a young, white male, which makes him extra dangerous.
Worse yet … they contribute their own "research" to the larger discussion rather than accepting information from mainstream sources.
The government has become obsessed with "disinformation" to the point where it set up a Disinformation Governance Board. There's the accepted "mainstream" narrative, and then there are "interpretations of the world that differ from 'mainstream' sources."
This is what the government is monitoring: your gaming chat while you play Call of Duty.