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Interesting. Extremely interesting.

reclaimthenet.org appears, at first, to be a pro-free speech site.

But they only publish stories that support the current US administration's stance that conservatives are being oppressed and persecuted.

And there are absolutely no stories critical of the steps the current administration has taken to curb free speech and expression.

And on several articles (I read a lot of that trash, unfortunately, trying to analyze it) they refer to efforts to install solar panels as "trying to block out the sun". Two different (apparently) authors used this very specific phrase as a stand-in for "solar panels".

And every single author I looked at appears to be fake with just "Cam Wakefield" having any other editorial presence on the entire internet, at a Christian anti-lgbt ragebait AI-slop website.

And the authors are very prolific, thousands of words a day, every day, non-stop.

All of the articles are the same approximate length, read very similarly, and very, very, very few of them (that I've seen and I've seen a shit-ton) have any links whatsoever to any website except other pages on reclaimthenet.org leading to loops of ragebaiting.

And there are absolutely no traces of who is behind the site, how it is funded, and the only common threads I can find, sprinkled judiciously just enough to be noticed but not enough to turn off normal people who don't look deeper, to try to explain what this site is is an obsessive (and secretive) focus on Great Britain and the United States and attempts to tackle hate speech and bigotry from the far Christian right.

My final analysis, especially based on the authors' off-site posts, is that they really, really, REALLY hate from the bottom of their hate-filled hearts, any trans or gay person and they hate even more when companies, governments, or other individuals say: "hey you're not allowed to write 'trans people should kill themselves' that is against our rules". And that this entire effort is fake, designed to stir up outrage to build pressure or support for legislative moves designed at first glance to "free da speech" but are really designed to limit peoples' right to say "gtfo bigot".

Or, cynically, it's just a rage-fueled fundraising exercise for persons unknown.

Very interesting.



Thank you for pointing all this out. I had a weird feeling when I was looking through the site, but couldn't quite pinpoint it.




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