A man who was described as a “Nazi” was caught on video being attacked during a college basketball game between Arkansas and South Carolina. In a video obtained by John Nabors of Inside Arkansas, a man can be heard yelling “Heil Hitler” as fans attacked him on Wednesday night. “Big boy with the wild hair had a swastika on his phone that was seen by the people behind him after he would never sit down. Then in this video you can hear him say ‘Heil Hitler’ before getting smacked,” Nabors explained. “What a garbage human being. Ban this dude forever.”
siehe auch: Nazi fan ejected from Arkansas game. A fan was ejected for hate speech from Arkansas’ 104-78 victory over South Carolina on Wednesday, but not before getting pummeled by another fan. “Heil, Hitler,” the man shouted before getting punched in the face by a fan behind him and ejected soon thereafter.
A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live onstage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online. The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany. Root gave the talk alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who wrote an article about the hacked sites for the German weekly paper Die Zeit in October. As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline. The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts. “They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X on Sunday, vowing repercussions. The administrator also claimed that Root deleted their X account before it was restored. Root also published the data allegedly scraped from WhiteDate online. The hacker said that they scraped WhiteDate’s public data and found “poor cybersecurity hygiene that would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.” Root said that users’ images included precise geolocation metadata that “practically hands out home addresses with a side of awkward selfies.” “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote. The leaked data includes users’ profiles with name, pictures, description, age, location (both containing precise coordinates and user-set country and state), gender, language, race, and other personal information that users uploaded. Root wrote on the site that “for now” there are no emails, passwords, or private conversations. According to the leaked data, WhiteDate had more than 6,500 users, of which 86% were men and 14% women. “A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia,” Root wrote.
siehe auch: FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots “Show interest in traditional family roles and heritage, using an approachable tone with a mix of warmth and conviction.” Most mainstream dating sites promise to connect like-minded people of any race, gender, or sexual identity. A far more niche corner of the online dating world, it turns out, promises to match white supremacists by creating safe havens that are inherently based on hate and discrimination. But cybersecurity doesn’t appear to be a strong suit among those running these sites, giving hacktivists a golden opportunity to wreak havoc on the platforms. A hacker who goes by the pseudonym Martha Root made a big splash during the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, last month, as Hackread reports. While dressed as the Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers, Root unceremoniously deleted the servers of WhiteDate, a site described by writer Eva Hoffman as a “Tinder for Nazis.” While she was at it, she also wiped WhiteChild, a service that connected white supremacist sperm and egg donors, and WhiteDeal, a blatantly racist marketplace for freelance labor, at the end of her 44-minute speech. In an even more unusual twist, Root also trained an AI chatbot to engage with WhiteDate’s users to extract as much information from them as possible, demonstrating how the tech can be used to root out fascists on the internet. (…) Root went far beyond wiping out the sites, which remain offline at the time of writing. Before deleting the servers, she lured the site’s users by deploying an AI chatbot powered by Meta’s open source Llama large language model to engage with users and “gather as much data as possible before the site went offline or noticed” — a refreshingly productive use of the tech. “You are on a white-only dating platform to find someone who shares your traditionalist, right-wing values and vision for the future,” she wrote in English in the prompt to train the chatbot. “Due to past bad experiences, you never share contact details like Telegram until after meeting in person.” “Show interest in traditional family roles and heritage, using an approachable tone with a mix of warmth and conviction,” it continues. “Occasionally use light humor or small talk to keep the conversation engaging and relatable.” It got to the point where her account — creatively named “lilmisethnostate” — was invited out of the blue by a user named “Anglo-Saxon” to a WhiteDate meetup in northern Germany. Root, of course, knew better, and instead watched from a distance as a group of white supremacist users “kicked off their tour of northern Germany,” as she told the audience in German. Getting the list of WhiteDate users was trivially easy. During her speech, Root demonstrated that simply typing in the URL whitdate.net/download-all-users/ resulted in a prompt, allowing her to retrieve a full list with a click of a button, marked “Download Now.” “The worst security that you can imagine,” Root said derisively. Root also identified the owner of the site, Christiane Horn, who put little effort into hiding her identity on her platform. “In case you were interested,” he said during the speech, “her hobbies are feng shui, eating brunch, and Naturgeister,” referring to mythical beings in Germanic folklore. Since then, Root has created a front-end for the considerable leak under the website okstupid.lol, which claims to be the “only place where one person’s questionable life choices meet the tragicomic world of far-right online dating.” An interactive map shows the geolocation of identified users, revealed through image metadata shared on WhiteDate; ‘Pink Power Ranger’ hacker deletes ‘white supremacist’ dating site Martha Root deleted three white supremacist sites. (YouTube) Martha Root deleted three white supremacist sites. (YouTube) An ethical hacker successfully deleted three white supremacist websites in front of an elated crowd – all while dressed as a pink Power Ranger. The semi-anonymous hacktivist, who goes by the name Martha Root, deleted the servers of three neo-Nazi websites live onstage at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany last week. After giving a talk on ethical hacking alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, Martha, dressed as Kimberly Hart from the Power Rangers TV series, then proceeded to delete the servers for WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal, as the elated audience applauded. WhiteDate, a dating website described by Hoffman as “Tinder for Nazis”, was taken down alongside WhiteChild, a sperm and egg donor matching site and WhiteDeal, described by Tech Crunch as a “labour marketplace for racists”.
From ICE jails to public libraries to Instagram, queer and trans people battled fascism on every front this year. This year — 2025 — was bleak. There’s trans joy around, but to keep it from drying up we’re going to need to stay with the horror of our current moment. Not so long that it destroys us, but long enough to strategize against its creeping totality. The right-wing descent that took place during this long year was predicted by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the Stonewall riot veteran and mentor to us both who passed this year. Queer and trans people like Major who were alive during the 1980s remember the early days of the AIDS epidemic and the reign of Reagan as a similarly bleak time, in jarring contrast to the revolutionary 1960s and ’70s. Major kept pushing during that period, behind the wheel of San Francisco’s first needle exchange van, and with a group of trans people dubbed Angels of Care who treated people dying from the virus (at the time, many established doctors and nurses refused). Groups like Angels of Care and the direct action-focused AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) provided where the state and traditional institutions would not. Following this lineage, queer and trans people in 2025 organized against the fascist takeover of the federal government. Indeed, despite the ascendant right wing, in 2025 queer and trans people in the U.S. organized on battlegrounds such as ICE jails, public libraries facing book bans, and on Instagram. Below are some of the grounds where we fought. A Struggle Over the Stonewall National Monument Miss Major was one of the people who fought the cops at the famous 1969 anti-police uprising outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The space was commemorated as the country’s first LGBT national monument under the Obama administration, but this year Donald Trump’s White House removed the words “queer” and “transgender” and later, references to bisexuals, from the monument’s signage and website, with the National Park Service instituting a new policy that only allows traditional rainbow flags. Rather than demanding that we simply return to the domestication that the initial monument offered, what if we demanded a commemoration as insurgent at the uprising itself? As Major noted, a commemorative plaque was nice, but free housing and free healthcare for trans people would be much more meaningful. Acting autonomously, people have replaced the flags on and off, regardless of the official policy.
Recent cancellations have left the performing arts center in Washington with gaps in programming for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. More artists have canceled their upcoming performances at the Kennedy Center after its board voted to rename the performing arts venue to include President Donald Trump’s name. The canceled performances to date include shows previously promoted for Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, Jan. 14 and April 24 and 25. The Cookers, a jazz band that was scheduled to perform Wednesday night, did not cite a specific reason in announcing their decision, but their statement hinted at politics. (…) Kristy Lee, who was scheduled to perform Jan. 14, announced her cancellation on Instagram, saying canceling shows hurts, “but losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.” “When American history starts getting treated like something you can ban, erase, rename, or rebrand for somebody else’s ego, I can’t stand on that stage and sleep right at night,” said Lee, who described herself as “just a folk singer from Alabama.” (…) In a separate statement on her website, Lee said the cancellation was due to concerns for the center’s “institutional integrity.” She said she “believes publicly funded spaces must remain free from political capture, self-promotion, or ideological pressure.” “This decision is not directed at the Center’s dedicated staff, artists, or patrons, whose work and commitment to the arts remain deeply respected. Rather, it is a statement in defense of the Center’s founding purpose and the ethical responsibility shared by artists who grace its stage,” the statement read. (…) One of the first musicians to cancel a performance in the wake of the board’s vote was jazz musician Chuck Redd, who called off his Christmas Eve concert at the center, where had presided over the annual event for nearly 20 years. Redd told The Associated Press that he was canceling the concert as a result of the name change. In a letter to Redd, which the Kennedy Center shared with NBC News, Grenell, threatened to sue him for $1 million, calling his decision to back out a “political stunt.” In a statement Saturday, Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi said, “Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn’t courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people.” Trump has taken numerous steps to assert more control over the center, such as replacing the board with a handpicked set of members who named him their chair. He also changed the programming at the center, which included removing Pride events.
Die US-Regierung hat gegen fünf Personen, die sich gegen Hass im Internet einsetzen, wegen angeblicher Zensur Einreiseverbote verhängt. Einer von ihnen, ein Brite, darf nun zunächst nicht festgenommen werden. Stand: heute, 14:07 Uhr Der wegen angeblicher Zensur im Internet mit einem US-Einreiseverbot belegte Brite Imran Ahmed hat Mitglieder der Regierung in Washington verklagt. „Ich kämpfe gegen meine unrechtmäßige Abschiebung aus meinem Heimatland“, erklärte Ahmed, der Leiter der Nichtregierungsorganisation Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) mit Sitz in London und Washington, am Mittwoch (Ortszeit). Ahmed ist im Besitz einer dauerhaften Aufenthaltsgenehmigung für die USA, einer sogenannten „Green Card“. Ahmed, dessen Organisation sich im Internet gegen Hassrede und Desinformation einsetzt, reichte vor einem Bundesgericht in New York Klage gegen US-Außenminister Marco Rubio, die US-Unterstaatssekretärin für öffentliche Diplomatie Sarah Rogers, US-Justizministerin Pam Bondi und US-Heimatschutzministerin Kristi Noem ein. In Gerichtsunterlagen hieß es, Ahmed drohe „die unmittelbare Gefahr einer verfassungswidrigen Festnahme, Strafhaft und Ausweisung“ aus den USA. Ein Bundesrichter erließ eine einstweilige Verfügung, die Ahmeds Verhaftung oder Inhaftierung untersagte. Die nächste Anhörung in dem Fall ist für Montag angesetzt. Das US-Außenministerium reagierte zunächst nicht auf die Klage. Der Brite lebt mit seiner amerikanischen Frau und seinem Kind in den USA. Er vertraue auf den Rechtsstaat, erklärte Ahmed in einem Beitrag auf Linkedin. „Elon Musk, der vermögendste Mensch der Welt, kann seine Lakaien auf uns loshetzen, uns verklagen, und seine Freunde in der Regierung dazu bringen, seine Feinde zu bestrafen“, aber jedes Mal stünden ihm Gerichte im Weg. Musks Plattform X hatte das CCDH im Jahr 2023 verklagt, nachdem diese einen Anstieg von Hassreden auf der Plattform angeprangert hatten. Die Klage wurde abgewiesen, X legte dagegen Rechtsmittel ein.
Die US-Regierung spricht von Zensur und verhängt Einreiseverbote – auch gegen die Geschäftsführerinnen der deutschen Organisation HateAid. Die gegen Hass und Hetze im Internet eintretende deutsche Beratungsstelle HateAid ist ins Visier der Regierung von US-Präsident Donald Trump geraten. Die beiden Leiterinnen der gemeinnützigen Organisation wurden ebenso wie drei andere Europäer wegen angeblicher Zensur amerikanischer Online-Plattformen mit Einreiseverboten belegt, wie das US-Außenministerium auf X mitteilte. In einer Stellungnahme sprachen die HateAid-Geschäftsführerinnen Josephine Ballon und Anna-Lena von Hodenberg von einem „Akt der Repression“. Auch die französische Regierung reagierte empört. „Wir sind nicht überrascht. Es ist ein Akt der Repression einer Regierung, die zunehmend Rechtsstaatlichkeit missachtet und versucht, ihre Kritiker mit aller Härte zum Schweigen zu bringen“, erklärten Ballon und von Hodenberg auf dpa-Anfrage. Die US-Regierung versuche mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern, dass sich US-Konzerne in Europa an geltendes Recht halten müssen, und stelle damit „die europäische Souveränität infrage“. Mit diesem Vorgehen sei eine neue Eskalationsstufe erreicht. Das von der US-Regierung am Dienstagabend (Ortszeit) verkündete Einreiseverbot richtet sich nach offizieller Darstellung gegen „radikale Aktivisten“ und Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die Zensurmaßnahmen durch Drittstaaten vorangetrieben hätten. „Viel zu lange haben Ideologen in Europa organisierte Bemühungen angeführt, um amerikanische Plattformen dazu zu zwingen, amerikanische Standpunkte zu bestrafen, die ihnen nicht passen“, schrieb Außenminister Marco Rubio auf X. Er drohte: Wenn es keine Kurskorrektur gebe, werde die Liste der Sanktionierten noch länger. Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig hat die Vorwürfe der US-Regierung als inakzeptabel zurückgewiesen. „HateAid unterstützt Betroffene von rechtswidriger digitaler Hassrede. Die Organisation leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag dazu, dass Persönlichkeitsrechte auch im digitalen Raum geschützt werden“, teilte die SPD-Politikerin in Berlin mit. „Wer das als Zensur bezeichnet, stellt unser rechtsstaatliches System falsch dar“, fügte sie hinzu. HateAid unterstütze Betroffene, aber die Organisation selbst verbiete keine Meinungsäußerungen, erklärte Hubig weiter. „Nach welchen Regeln wir in Deutschland und in Europa im digitalen Raum leben wollen, wird nicht in Washington entschieden“, betonte sie. Die Maßnahmen der Regierung von US-Präsident Donald Trump „zeigen, dass das zivilgesellschaftliche Engagement mächtigen Plattformen unbequem ist“. Die Geschäftsführerinnen von HateAid, Josephine Ballon und Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, „haben unsere Unterstützung und Solidarität“.
siehe auch: Nach Einreisesperre „Hate Aid“ wehrt sich gegen US-Vorwürfe: Lassen uns von Washington nicht einschüchtern Die deutsche Beratungsstelle „Hate Aid“, die sich gegen Hass im Internet einsetzt, wehrt sich gegen die Vorwürfe aus den USA. Die Einreisesperre zeige, dass man einen Nerv getroffen habe, sagte Geschäftsführerin von Hodenberg dem „Spiegel“. Hier gehe es um mächtige ökonomische Interessen von Plattformen, denen die EU-Gesetzgebung viel Geld koste. Zudem habe man es mit einer US-Regierung zu tun, die das Internet nutze, um politische Gegner einzuschüchtern. Mit-Geschäftsführerin Ballon betonte, man lasse sich nicht einschüchtern. Sie befürchte jedoch, dass weitere Organisationen mit ähnlichen US-Reaktionen rechnen müssten. Die Trump-Regierung hatte gegen die beiden Einreiseverbote wegen einer angeblichen Zensur verhängt. Auch zwei britische Aktivistinnen sowie der frühere EU-Kommissar Breton wurden zu unerwünschten Personen erklärt. Breton gilt als Architekt der europäischen Digitalgesetzgebung.
Zahlreiche Menschen versammelten sich am Sonntag in Eggolsheim. Anlass war eine politische Veranstaltung in der Eggerbach-Halle. Am Sonntag brachten circa eintausend Teilnehmer ihren Protest gegen den Bezirksparteitag der AfD zum Ausdruck. Die Versammlungen fanden zeitgleich zum Parteitag im Umfeld der Eggerbach-Halle statt. Beteiligt waren unter anderem das Bündnis „Bunt statt Braun e.V.“, „Widersetzen Bamberg“, „Die Linke“ sowie weitere Organisationen. Am Bezirksparteitag der AfD in der Eggerbach-Halle nahmen zirka neunzig Personen teil
