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1/ This is http://1776.shop , the Proud Boys' fundraising outlet.
They're raising money for an appeal for Max Hare and John Kinsman, members of a hate group recently sentenced to four years each for assaulting protesters.
They're using @Square to do it.
cc: @SqSupportpic.twitter.com/z0nJ7CVFoM
2/ This is a clear violation of @Square's Terms of Service, which prohibits anything "threatening, harassing, hateful, abusive, or inflammatory" or that "encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or gives rise to civil liability."pic.twitter.com/p6SiuHIk5E
3/ Before we go through http://1776.shop , let's have a little background on the Proud Boys for the moderators at @Square and @SqSupport who might not be familiar.
First, they were declared a hate group by @splcenter in early 2018.https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys …
4/ Second, researcher @ashkenaz89 has linked the Proud Boys to over 130 violent incidents since they were founded in the fall of 2016.
She's mapped out those incidents here.https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=46c5dd159e984d59b636229a55561807&extent=-146.5001,22.4863,-45.4259,57.7828 …
5/ Last week, Proud Boys Max Hare and John Kinsman were sentenced to four years each, after the two participated in the gang beating of protesters outside the Metropolitan GOP Club in October 2018.https://www.thedailybeast.com/proud-boys-maxwell-hare-john-kinsman-sentenced-to-four-years-for-upper-east-side-brawl …
6/ And the Proud Boys store is now using @Square to raise money for their appeal.pic.twitter.com/tORSydNMja
7/ And what else are they selling in that shop that may violate @SqSupport's Terms of Service?
To start, there's multiple t-shirts advocating the murder of anyone they call a "communist."pic.twitter.com/yzBylc7x72
8/ There's one particularly aggressive design that appears to threaten the life of Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.pic.twitter.com/ROpcfbJSO4
9/ They're also obsessed with rightwing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was known for sending death squads to kidnap his leftist political enemies and drop them out of helicopters. The first shirt reads "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong."pic.twitter.com/YUQMgR0jhP
10/ In honor of this, they sell decals and t-shirts reading "RWDS"-- Right-Wing Death Squad-- for Proud Boys to wear.pic.twitter.com/k2EYmcJEiP
11/ Members of the Proud Boys and the American Guard were wearing these shirts when they attacked protesters at a Resist Marxism rally in Providence, RI, in October 2018.https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/27/1859465/-Far-right-street-brawlers-just-can-t-escape-their-violent-hateful-and-bigoted-roots …
12/ Photos of Proud Boy/American Guard member Dane Menough wearing a "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong" shirt in Providence on October 6, 2018, when the groups crossed a police line to attack protesters at a Resist Marxism rally.pic.twitter.com/hR7sjyUQwb
13/ The online store also features an entire category called "The Boogaloo." "Boogaloo" is the term used by the far-right for the race war they believe is imminent.pic.twitter.com/jRZ3Tb1hSi
14/ Hey, @Square and @SqSupport-- http://1776.shop is using your services to raise money for a hate group.
Their products advocate the murder of leftists, and stoke excitement for an imminent race war.
Please enforce your Terms of Service and shut them down.pic.twitter.com/6p4CHuY5O6
15/ In fact, the site was previously deplatformed from @Square by @SqSupport in February 2019.
It looks like they just created a new account to hop right back on.https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/proud-boys-1776-shop-paypal-square-chase-removed.html …
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