Website Goes Live Tracking 50,000+ Hateful Posts About Charlie Kirk After His Death
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Website Goes Live Tracking 50,000+ Hateful Posts About Charlie Kirk After His Death

This is going to be very controversial… And I am even a bit conflicted on it, so allow me to simply report what is going on and then I’ll give you my current stream-of-consciousness thoughts as of right now. A website has gone live called CharliesMurderers.com which claims to track and document all hateful and politically-violent comments about Charlie Kirk after his murder. It has already gathered over 50,000 submissions and is growing very fast. See it here:  https://www.charliesmurderers.com The homepage begins with this: The website is apparently tied to this X account: The About page of the website makes clear this is not a doxxing website, but rather a “lawful data aggregator or publicly-available information.” This is not a doxxing website. This website is a lawful data aggregator of publicly-available information. It has been created for the purposes of public education. We seek to collect and archive instances of individuals promoting or glorifying of political violence, much like archive.org or archive.is. We firmly denounce all political violence and criminal activity. This website is being converted into a mass searchable database of over 20,000 entries. Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie Kirk’s family. I do think that’s a very important distinction. I will never support doxxing.  If someone is private and does not voluntarily put their identity online, that privacy should not be violated.  Especially in today’s world, where you can be assassinated in the neck because someone disagrees with you, doxxing can be fatal. But that’s not what this website does. It doesn’t expose people who tried to remain private, it simply posts and documents people who willingly posted vile, hateful comments about Charlie Kirk online. If you want to post hate like that, it does seem to me only fair that you don’t get to try and run away from it later on.  The Internet is written in ink. One exception I would highlight though, is that it does seem like some submissions are screenshots of private DMs or private text messages and I don’t support those being made public without the other person’s consent. Now to address the Free Speech question, because I can already hear it. “But what about Free Speech, Noah?  I thought you supported the Constitution and the 1st Amendment!  Hypocrite!  You support these people getting fired from their jobs because of something they said?  What happened to Free Speech?” I do support Free Speech, probably more-so than most anyone you know. And this is not in any way limiting Free Speech. All 50,000 of these people have the right to say these things and post them online. But….Free Speech does NOT protect you against all consequences. If I go to my boss at work and I say “Hey boss, I just wanted to tell you you have a big old fat, ugly face that makes me want to barf every time I see it and I wish you would get shot in the neck!” — I probably would be fired from that job instantly. I don’t get to claim “Free Speech” protects my job! No it doesn’t. It protects you from the Government throwing you in prison over words. Furthermore, while I think Free Speech should be absolute, our Supreme Court has ruled it’s not, and there are exceptions even to the First Amendment where you do not get a blank check to say anything and everything you want.  There are limits.  And there are consequences. So there you go! Interested to know what you think….do you support this website?