All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

SCOOP: QAnon is supposed to be all about protecting kids. Its primary enabler appears to have hosted child porn domains.

QAnon is Supposed to Be All About Protecting Kids. Its Primary Enabler Appears to Have Hosted Child Porn Domains.

One dark irony of QAnon has always been that the conspiracy theory, which holds that President Trump is waging a war on a cabal of elite liberal pedophiles, rose to prominence on 8chan, an imageboard where users swapped child pornography.

But that irony may have a darker, deeper layer: Mother Jones has uncovered that Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan and its successor site, 8kun, controls a company that hosted scores of domains whose names suggest they are connected to child pornography.

While Mother Jones did not visit the domains because of strict laws related to viewing child sex abuse material, internet registration and hosting data suggest at a minimum that Watkins profited from domains with names explicitly related to pedophilia—the very thing that QAnon followers say that they’re motivated to end. The domains’ names include terms such as “preteen,” “schoolgirl,” and “child” alongside graphic terms for genitalia and words like “rape” and “love.” It’s unclear what, if anything, is currently being served at the domains. However, an analysis of metadata collected years ago from one by archive.org shows dozens of filenames and links containing highly suggestive terms, including “xxxpreteen,” “children,” and sexual references to girls aged 12 to 15.

Some of the domains date back to the late 1990s and may no longer be active, while others currently resolve to IP addresses controlled by Watkins’ company, N.T. Technology, according to records compiled by Farsight Security, a cybersecurity company that archives historical routing data detailing relationships among domain names, IP addresses, name servers, and other digital assets.

[babyblob]

i want to give a quick thanks to members like Tami (Glad to see you back) and you others who post the links to these stories. I have learned a lot from them and they have led me to do more research on my own.

The thing that makes me laugh about Trumpers like my aunt and her cult. When you Tami and others post stories on here and I show her. Her response is
"There was nothing about that on Fox news so it is clearly liberal lies and fake News."

[Tendrin]

No doubt that would be better under Biden when he shuts down the country, raises corporate taxes, and raises the minimum wage to spur hiring. Brilliant plan.

You've almost got it.

[Kirby101]

You've almost got it.

Yes, there is no doubt it will be better.

[Spidey5640]

Trump is the first President since Hoover to have negative job growth.

Pretty sure none of the others had a wrold-wide pandemic in the last year of their first term. I'll wait to see how he does at the end of his 8th year.

[sunofdarkchild]

The former Prime Minister of Malaysia said today that Muslims have the right to kill millions of French people even as another person was beheaded in an attack at a French church.

[Spidey5640]

Research Shows Minimum Wage Increases Do Not Cause Job Loss

These 7 charts show Trump's tax cuts still haven't been the economic 'rocket fuel' he promised, 2 years after the fact

Yep, I can see all the bars and restaurants that have been shuttered for months just falling over themselves to double the wage rate of their employees when they do re-open. Makes complete sense for them to do that. Biden is on to something.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Yep, I can see all the bars and restaurants that have been shuttered for months just falling over themselves to double the wage rate of their employees when they do re-open. Makes complete sense for them to do that. Biden is on to something.

So poverty wages are A-okay with you, then?

[Spidey5640]

So poverty wages are A-okay with you, then?

Businesses shutting down okay with you then? Got it.

[Spidey5640]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/week...ss-claims.html

Jobless claims lower than expected as well. Better get Joe in to shut the country down or they might keep dropping.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Businesses shutting down okay with you then? Got it.

If you can't pay a living wage, then why is a business entitled to be open? They're asking society to subsidize them.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Pretty sure none of the others had a wrold-wide pandemic in the last year of their first term. I'll wait to see how he does at the end of his 8th year.

Obama tackled the the Swine Flu pandemic in his first term.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Obama tackled the the Swine Flu pandemic in his first term.

Yeah, but he had a pandemic team and play book to work from. Not a fair comparison!

[Kirby101]

Yep, I can see all the bars and restaurants that have been shuttered for months just falling over themselves to double the wage rate of their employees when they do re-open. Makes complete sense for them to do that. Biden is on to something.

Obama’s Last Three Years Of Job Growth All Beat Trump’s Best Year

[Kirby101]

Businesses shutting down okay with you then? Got it.

225,000 dead Americans okay with you?