Oddly enough, my data is also in this set (thanks to HIBP I know about that...) - and also thanks to HIBP, I know the domain trader that made me appear in this dataset.
It's unfortunate, as I'd consider myself "leftist".
> It's unfortunate, as I'd consider myself "leftist".
The news media doesn't generalise and it doesn't lie, you are a 'far-right troll' that 'trusted Epik' - silly you!
Seriously though, whatever your political stance, I am sorry you had your details leaked. What you do or don't do privately is entirely your business, and is certainly not of the place of some news media to go sharing about.
> After Alayon’s name appeared in the breached data, his brokerage, Travers Miran Realty, dropped him as an agent, as first reported by the real estate news site Inman.
Perhaps, we should consider that despite many right-wing persons using this domain service, that doesn't mean they _all_ are - and that headlines like this are actually insanely irresponsible.
> Asked why his name, email address and other personal information were listed in company invoices for the “racisminc” and Holocaust-denial domains, Alayon said the data was “easily falsifiable,” that he was the possible victim of extortion and that The Post was “fake news.”
Maybe he was more extreme in his views in the past, and later changed his mind and became less radical. Do these people not believe in reform? If they don't, then surely the only purpose of this article is the sadistic destruction of this man's life without a fair court?
Perhaps he believes in these things in his private life, but exercises separation between his private life and work. I hate to remind people of this, but there's a very good chance that you do not agree with _everything_ your colleagues, family, friends, etc, do. Differences are okay, they are even quite healthy.
> The spokesperson said the company “offers its services to everyone” and that “domains affiliated with right-wing politics comprise less than 1 percent of users.” Epik said it is not aware of its users’ intents and “does not consider its role to be censors of free citizens.”
I'm not sure I want my domain registrar to be political either, even if it means an extremist gets a domain. I fully respect Epik's stance on this. Forcing companies to become political is incredibly dangerous.
That's one of the issues - the "far-right", depending on who is using the term, can range from someone advocating for genocide of anyone without blue eyes and blond hair, all the way to someone who says that Donald Trump wasn't that bad as a president.
Americans have no context for left and right. They literally are both far right because that’s a political alignment, and one that Donald Trump absolutely fits. The ones advocating genocide are violent extremists on top of that.
The democrats are a center-right party while the actual left is effectively frozen out of the political system and is currently focused on building alternate power structures for when the US government inevitably collapses. There’s not a lot of electoral participation on the left because when the choice is fascism or diet fascism, there’s not much point to an actual socialist.
If the "actual left" is "currently focused on building alternate power structures for when the US government inevitably collapses" - how would you define far-left? What are they doing?
I would define “far left” as revolutionary communists, of which there are very few and they’re mostly very young people on Twitter. But the few actual revolutionaries I know are doing the same crap as the right wing militias, there are just a lot fewer of them.
Your average leftist is simply disillusioned with electoral politics writ large; they’re tired of voting for guys like Obama who promise change but then still spend a trillion dollars turning brown children into skeletons. But there’s absolutely a feeling that we’re running out of time and more drastic solutions are on the horizon.
Some join something like DSA which still nominally participates in the electoral system and others build mutual aid networks to circumvent capitalist control.
It's unfortunate, as I'd consider myself "leftist".