Wombaticus Rex » Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:02 am wrote:82_28 » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:13 pm wrote:I'm seeing the (((X))) increasingly on sites. I don't understand.
You're seeing it because there's a lot of Jewish folks in US media and they're using it "ironically" to call attention to their targeting.
A bit like everyone wearing white sheets to protest at Stone Mountain, but ending the phenomenon isn't really the issue, so much as drawing attention to their own victimization by the AltRight frog hordes. They want us to think it's serious.
Had to look that up, as I don't "tweet" nor vigorously follow the tweets of other twits.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/03/goo ... extension/
Google pulls Chrome extension used to target Jewish people
The tool was tracking nearly 8,800 people believed to be Jewish.
Following a detailed investigation by Mic, Google has pulled a Chrome extension that was used by racists to identify and track Jewish people online. The plugin, called "Coincidence Detector," added a series of triple parentheses around the surnames of Jewish writers and celebrities. For instance, visiting the page of Mic writer Cooper Fleishman, you'd see his surname presented as (((Fleishman))) -- turning the symbol into the digital equivalent of the gold star badge used to identify Jews in Nazi Germany. Until Google banned it for violating its policy on hate speech, the plugin had just under 2,500 users and had a list of 8,768 names that were considered worthy of tracking.
The plugin was created by altrightmedia, with no one person yet coming forward to claim authorship of the program. As Mic explains, it is sarcastically named Coincidence Detector in the service of a conspiracy theory that suggests that all Jews are engaged in a bid to undermine society. As Mic explains, the parentheses were popularized by right-wing website the Right Stuff, which suggested that all Jewish names have an echo. When used, it can provide a signal to far-right groups to target named Jewish people with insults and threats of violence. Motherboard reports that the symbol is already being reclaimed by Jewish writers online, who have added parentheses to their Twitter names.
As a result, there's now this as an 'alternative' (ha) option:
http://forward.com/news/342348/this-app ... n-twitter/
The neo-Nazis who were using three parentheses to target Jewish people online are now easily identifiable themselves due to the work of one anonymous web developer.
A new site called Echo Location displays a live stream of anyone posting on Twitter with the echo symbol and allows users to search for specific tweets with three parentheses as well.
The echo symbol, which has been used by neo-Nazis as 3 parentheses around the start and end of a Jewish person’s name, has become the subject of increased media attention last week . Prominent Jewish journalists such as Jeffrey Goldberg at Atlantic and Jon Weisman at The New York Times have also reclaimed it by putting it around their names.
After the echo symbol came to light, the developer noticed that the parentheses remained unsearchable on most forms of social media and allowed neo-Nazis to continue using it without getting caught. After connecting to the Twitter Streaming API, he created a site that brings up most tweets that contain the characters and displays them in a live stream.
The developer, who comes from a web background has been involved in anti-racist activism before, wishes to remain anonymous due to the increased risk of becoming targeted online for his work.
“It kind of looks like Nazis are not exactly happy that people are talking about [the symbol],” he said.
Hey SLAD: I believe I have a copyright on utilizing that film as an homage to our fellow resident AD.