{"id":827,"date":"2021-03-12T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/far-right-supporters-move-to-open-source-to-evade-censorship\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:42:15","slug":"far-right-supporters-move-to-open-source-to-evade-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/far-right-supporters-move-to-open-source-to-evade-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right supporters move to open source to evade censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide and a strange bitcoin bequest have opened a window on to the new frontier of extremist online media<\/p>\n<p>On 8 December last year, a Frenchman called Laurent Bachelier gave away a total of 28.5 bitcoins \u2013 worth $556,000 \u2013 to 22 people. On the same day, he killed himself.<\/p>\n<p>In suicide notes written in French and English, he explained that the burden of illness (he suffered from a neurological pain disorder) and his loss of hope for the future had led him to despair. After railing against the decline of western civilization and attacks on free speech, he wrote that he had decided to \u201cleave his modest wealth to certain causes and people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/12\/far-right-open-source-technology-censorship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d9f9e8bcb64290adf51a6f78f0b06b7bcff2ab17\/0_0_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3f104efda5f89edee3122dc55fb36beb\" title=\"Far-right supporters move to open source to evade censorship\" \/>A suicide and a strange bitcoin bequest have opened a window on to the new frontier of extremist online media<br \/>\nOn 8 December last year, a Frenchman called Laurent Bachelier gave away a total of 28.5 bitcoins \u2013 worth $556,000 \u2013 to 22 people. On the same day, he killed himself.<br \/>\nIn suicide notes written in French and English, he explained that the burden of illness (he suffered from a neurological pain disorder) and his loss of hope for the future had led him to despair. After railing against the decline of western civilization and attacks on free speech, he wrote that he had decided to \u201cleave his modest wealth to certain causes and people\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide and a strange bitcoin bequest have opened a window on to the new frontier of extremist online media On 8 December last year, a Frenchman called Laurent Bachelier gave away a total of 28.5 bitcoins \u2013 worth $556,000 \u2013 to 22 people. On the same day, he killed himself. In suicide notes written &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/far-right-supporters-move-to-open-source-to-evade-censorship\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Far-right supporters move to open source to evade censorship<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}