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ck4829

(35,068 posts)
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 12:46 PM Sep 2022

The online incel movement is getting more violent and extreme, report says

The most prominent forum for men who consider themselves involuntarily celibate or “incels” has become significantly more radicalized over the past year and a half and is seeking to normalize child rape, a new report says.

The report, by the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s new Quant Lab, is the culmination of an investigation that analyzed more than 1 million posts on the site. It found a marked spike in conversations about mass murder and growing approval of sexually assaulting prepubescent girls.

The report also says that platforms including YouTube and Google, as well as internet infrastructure companies like Cloudflare are facilitating the growth of the forum, which the report said is visited by 2.6 million people every month. “These businesses should make a principled decision to withdraw their services from sites causing such significant harm,” the report says.

“This is a novel, new violent extremist movement born in the internet age, which defies the usual characteristics of violent extremist movements that law enforcement and the intelligence community are usually used to,” said Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of CCDH, a U.S.-based nonprofit. “Our study shows that it is organized, has a cogent ideology and has clearly concluded that raping women, killing women, and raping children is a clear part of the practice of their ideology.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/incels-rape-murder-study/

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The online incel movement is getting more violent and extreme, report says (Original Post) ck4829 Sep 2022 OP
the whole incel thing is baffling prodigitalson Sep 2022 #1
Yeah it's time for that shit to go. Initech Sep 2022 #2

prodigitalson

(2,408 posts)
1. the whole incel thing is baffling
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 12:58 PM
Sep 2022

do these idiots not know that prostitution is legal in Nevada as well as Mexico? Of course that does cost money, which would require a job.

Initech

(100,064 posts)
2. Yeah it's time for that shit to go.
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 01:11 PM
Sep 2022

Once they start breaking out the violent threats, you know no good can come of it.

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