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Tactical Peek

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Tue Jun 2, 2020, 02:22 AM Jun 2020

Roku is offering an entire channel dedicated to QAnon - WTF?

Last edited Tue Jun 2, 2020, 10:10 PM - Edit history (1)

Roku is offering an entire channel dedicated to QAnon

Conspiracy theorist behind the channel promises to also take it to Amazon and Apple

Written by Alex Kaplan

Published 06/01/20 9:31 AM EDT

Streaming platform Roku allowed a channel dedicated to promoting the dangerous QAnon conspiracy theory to launch on its platform last month. The channel’s creator says he also plans to offer it via Amazon Fire and Apple TV.

“Q Channel - QAnon Channel” describes itself as hosting “opinion based shows for getting the truth out, as we know it, about the Qanon movement.” The channel was announced in May by David Hayes, a QAnon supporter known online as “Praying Medic” who has a large following.

Roku has previously said that it bars from its platform content that is “unlawful, incited illegal activities, or violates third-party rights.” In May 2019, an FBI field office released a memo that listed QAnon as a potential domestic terrorism threat, and the conspiracy theory has been linked to multiple people who have committed threatening and violent acts.

. . . There have been numerous acts of violence associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, including a man accused of murdering his brother with a sword, a man accused of murdering an alleged crime boss, a man who reportedly threatened to kill YouTube employees, an armed man who blocked the bridge over the Hoover Dam with an armored vehicle, a man who threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump, a woman who traveled to New York City to “take out” former Vice President Joe Biden, a man arrested for threatening to kill the governor and attorney general of Michigan, and multiple people who have attempted kidnappings.

https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/roku-offering-entire-channel-dedicated-qanon


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* edited to note that plans changed and it was pulled, see post #7 by morillon

Sweet.


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Roku is offering an entire channel dedicated to QAnon - WTF? (Original Post) Tactical Peek Jun 2020 OP
WTF indeed sakabatou Jun 2020 #1
So Roku is pushing Russian propaganda rockfordfile Jun 2020 #2
How many platforms carry Russia Today (RT)? herding cats Jun 2020 #4
I guess we know which streaming platform those wacky Q's preference is now, huh? herding cats Jun 2020 #3
thus ensuring an ongoing current of civil unrest for the foreseeable future 0rganism Jun 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author morillon Jun 2020 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author morillon Jun 2020 #7

0rganism

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5. thus ensuring an ongoing current of civil unrest for the foreseeable future
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 02:55 AM
Jun 2020

should Biden find his way to the presidency, this and similar fountains of bullshit will continuously feed a constant stream of simmering right-wing hatred throughout his first term.

should Trump remain in office by hook or by crook, this propaganda will fuel the xenophobic and murderous drive of millions of triumphantly fascist fanatics.

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