Well, it happened. I wasn’t exactly expecting it, but now that it has I’m not really surprised.
Some of you know that the ANP started a channel on Discord. It was by invitation only. We started with about a dozen people, then slowly started to increase the numbers. It seemed to be working out very well and we were going to start sending invites to all members and supporters. Forget that.
It seems that Discord itself pulled the plug on us. It seems we violated their terms of service by making “hateful” statements. The thing is, the people we were making them about could not be offended because they couldn’t read them as our page was by invitation only. It’s kind of like if a tree falls in a forest and there’s no one around, does it make a sound? Well of course it makes a sound. But if no one can hear it, what does it matter?
If you had one of those giant speakers like Marty McFly used at the beginning of the original “Back To The Future”, you would disturb the peace of the entire neighborhood. However, if you owned a cabin in the woods 50 miles from the nearest person, you could crank the thing up all the way and no one would be disturbed by it.
If you make an offensive remark and there’s no one around who is offended, is it still offensive? Hell no! Something is only offensive if someone is offended. No one but us could read that page so how were we being offensive?
I take that back. Someone besides us was reading our page. Since it was by invitation only, other Discord users could not access our page and report us like with Facebook or Blogger. Discord itself must have been monitoring us. There’s no other answer. They invaded our privacy.
The general consensus with any kind of social media platform is to keep White Nationalists from having a venue to speak from – even if we’re speaking only to each other. Their goal is to try and stop us from spreading our message. I’m here to tell them that it won’t work. We will find a way. In fact, I already have an idea.
Some of you who have been a part of the NS/WN community for more than ten years may remember a website called “ZOG’s Nightmare”. Believe me, it was. This site had a lot to offer – including it’s own forum.
With sites like Discord or Blogger, it’s free. But the actual price is they get to dictate what we are allowed to say. However, it’s different if we’re paying cash money. If they pull the plug on us, they’re losing money, and when you’re in business, cash is king.
What I’m going to do is look into starting a site like ZOG’s Nightmare complete with a forum for discussion. I’ll make certain the host won’t legally be able to pull the plug if they don’t like what we have to say – and they surely won’t like it. Perhaps I can even attach it to this website to make it more convenient to access.
They can hinder us, but they can’t stop us. We are everywhere and always will be. HAIL VICTORY!
Dan Schneider
Deputy Chairman
American Nazi Party