light - term flat lease site Airbnb has banish over 60 users of Iron March , the defunct white supremacist entanglement forum that recently had its intact SQL database leaked to the cyberspace , the society told Gizmodo .
The Iron Marchleak to the Internet Archiveby someone using the handle “ antifa - data”exposed extensive informationabout neo - Nazis , white supremacists , and other far - ripe users on the forum . That included their post story , lineal messages with other users , and email and IP computer address record . An Airbnb representative tell Gizmodo that the company had identified the account through itsnormal indistinguishability - verification system . The spokesperson added that all of the Iron March user found on Airbnb appeared to have been guests , rather than hosts .
Airbnb sum up that it has taken steps to remove attender and organizer of white-hot supremacists from its platform before , let in before the disastrousUnite the Rightrally in Charlottesville , Virginia in 2017 that lead in the death ofcounter - protester Heather Heyerand scores of other combat injury . Airbnb also took activeness to ban userswho plan to advert a conferenceheld by blanched supremacist site American Renaissance to begin with this year , as well as booted Canadian far - right militant Faith Goldy .
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“ This was a no - brainer – when we see the great unwashed on our platform pursuing behaviour antithetical to our Community Commitment , we take action to prioritize the safe of our community , ” an Airbnb spokesperson say Gizmodo in a assertion . “ Through our confidence and safety systems , we are unendingly seeking to proactively identify those who could put our hosts and Edgar Guest at hazard . ”
The voice go on to say it is the party ’s stance that , “ Anyone sympathetic to neo - Nazi political theory and violent extremism has absolutely no place on Airbnb , and our biotic community is a better place without them . ” Airbnb did not free the offline identities of the Iron March user but said that it would cooperate with jurisprudence enforcement if contacted .
Mike Signer , former city manager of Charlottesville , told Gizmodo via electronic mail that his Communities have the best Extremism : the After Charlottesville Project had highlighted Airbnb ’s decision toban rally attendees in a reportand worked with Airbnb to host an anti - extremism conference in October 2019 .
“ The invasion of the city by over 10 alt - ripe militia organization impose tremendous trauma on the biotic community , ” Signer told Gizmodo . “ This included not only the victims of neo - Nazi James Fields , who weaponize a auto to drive into a gang of counterprotesters , kill Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others but hundreds of others who experienced vile physical and verbal assaults , include overt racism and anti - Semitism . ”
Signer add that he applaud Airbnb ’s decision and that tech companies “ can and should act to move the Internet away from the ‘ baseless west ’ model , where anything goes and where bad behavior and even violence are rewarded . ”
Iron March was founded in 2011 by Russian extremist Alexander “ Slavros ” Mukhitdinov . It ’s known as the position where members of Atomwaffen Division , a neo - Nazi terrorist organization whose penis have been linked tofive murders , violence in Charlottesville , and aLas Vegas bomb game , first organized . TheGuardian notedthat far - rightfield grouping Vanguard America , whose supporter James Alex Fields carry out the terrorist attack in Charlottesville , also has ties to Iron March . TheSouthern Poverty Law Centersays that the assembly was “ at last affiliated with or offered support to at least nine fascist group in nine different countries , ” including Serbia Action in Serbia , Casa Pound of Italy , Golden Dawn of Greece , Antipodean Resistance of Australia , Skydas of Lithuania , and Azov Battalion of Ukraine , and Vanguard America and Patriot Front stateside .
Iron March vanished from the vane with small placard in 2017 . Its disappearing was just months after Atomwaffen Division appendage and Iron March post horse Devon Arthurs murdered two of his Tampa , Florida roommates , who were also members of the radical , over an ideologic dispute . Florida Army National Guard member and Atomwaffen leader Brandon Russell , also an Iron March user and Arthurs ’ third roommate , received a five - year prison sentenceafter authorities discovered explosives in their garage .
Why the forum went offline has n’t been explained , butZDNet suggestedthat the monumental outflow could imply it was hacked . Independent researchers at unfastened - origin journalism outfitBellingcatand elsewhere continue to separate through the data in hopes of identify more phallus of the group .
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