Post by @kimzetter@infosec.exchange

2026-07-15 17:12 UTC

@gwen@tech.lgbt @xethos@mastodon.xethos.net @DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange If you think that the only thing that members of The Com are doing is "doing damage to capitalist constructs" then you have very little understanding of what the members do. I included a link in this pice to a more lengthy story I published about Nixon and The Com earlier this year. You might find it more enlightening because it goes int greater detail about the violence they engage in - inciting mass school shootings, targeting young girls with sextortion, encouraging youths to kill their pets or harm random elderly people. The financial crimes are only one part of their activity.

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@xethos@mastodon.xethos.net 2026-07-15 17:37

@kimzetter@infosec.exchange I have read e*nough* about Discord / Telegram / Com-affiliated groups and what they extort others into doing I appreciate the work that's being done to stop them, and I have *questions* about Discord's complete lack of [visible] action (for a non-E2EE platform especially), but I'm bailing here to go back to something either less productive or more (cute pictures and memes, or home & car repairs that have piled up, respectively), instead of continuing to dwell on something so cancerous that I'm aware of, but powerless to affect I appreciated the interview linked (💕), but @ me again about Com-affiliated groups extorting victims into carving their abusers' names onto their bodies and I'm muting the thread I'm just not up for that currently, y'know?

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@gwen@tech.lgbt 2026-07-15 19:53

@kimzetter@infosec.exchange I was going off the linked interview, because said interview introduced her as a defender of capitalism and was pretty much entirely about that. Perhaps I should not have included that particular sentence, because it completely distracts from my actual point, which is that you don’t solve the problem of our society letting people fall through the cracks and get radicalised by increasing punishments for said people. That’s at best fixing the symptoms while ignoring the actual problems, and at worst adding to the radicalisation potential. She clearly lays out the actual problem, she points out all the mental health issues, and her solution is not better mental health resources, it’s not deradicalisation, it’s not prevention, it’s putting people in prison to scare them straight, it’s making sure people with mental illness don’t get released from prison.

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