"Anarchist Memes" admin named in connection with harassment and rape apologism

Pretty damning.

~J.

Max anarchies wrote -

What connection with solfed? Being friended on Facebook adds up to nothing. Whatever you're saying, it has nothing to do with solfed.

Personally, I was never impressed by the daily posts made by Anarchist Memes. Their not lib-commish.

I tried posting about this on their page too, and it got deleted, then I got a personal message from Ben linking to a fairly rambling document on dropbox, which frankly hasn't persuaded me.

Max anarchies wrote -

Then bleeding mate, just send the person responsible for that solfed Facebook page a message to unfriend. Simples, no? I appreciate what you're saying to a degree, though shit sticks if someone wants to make something out of having an idiot on a list of befriended people on a Facebook page.
I usually look after a solfed Facebook page and tbh, people are accepted on trust that they are ok, I certainly don't try to vet people, if they play up or I learn they are nobs I unfriend. I'd appreciate an email rather than a public notice.

Has there been any reaction from anarchist memes to the accusation against one of their admins? I expect them to respond publicly if they want to maintain their credibility, esp since Anarchist Memes has been used in the harassment campaign. It's a pretty successful project with their nearly 80'000 subscribers so far, but their admin team need to deal with this situation. The fact that they have now stopped ordinary users from posting (following Max_Anarchies posting a link to the accusations) does not make me hopeful.

Let's hope they respond in a manner that the accusers find appropriate. If not though, what can Libcom do in support? Libcom & AM are similar inasmuch as they both hold significant clout on social media and benefit from broad shares, RTs, etc.

max_anarchies was clearly posting it as info for all organisations, not just SF. I'm surprised to hear that people are worried that people might "make shit" out of SF being at one point fb friends with anarchist memes, if anything it is good publicity for SF to show that it has been quick to respond to a public warning and dissociate from sexist apologism.

From administering a group account for a short period of time, I noticed that most of the likes on anarchist fb pages came from people's separate political fb accounts, and political group accounts, that click like/friend/share on nearly every other anarchist fb page, and it all acts as something of a self-congratulatory like/friend/share factory, so i don't think there is any need to worry that 'anarchist memes' has influence due to large numbers of shares/likes.

If I am not mistaken, the person from Anarchist Memes you are talking about also set up Anarcho-Syndicalism FB and is involved with cooperating with representatives of various organizations. Am wondering about this all and whether people really want to be associated with this.

the A-S page was not made by ites.

there are two types of admins on FB pages content creators and managers. basically it is a hierarchy of who has actual control.

it appears i've been demoted to content creator with no discussion after this snafu. i don't know why, other than ites circling their wagons. i'm assuming i'll be dumped now for saying this.

Anarchist Memes no longer links to libcom. It now links to anarkismo. Ites is indeed circling the wagons. Laughable.

burn!

Any anarkismo people here, what do you think about that?

Christ almighty...Ites, whoever you are you need to take a step back and just relax for a second because you are making some poor life decisions here.

And then they wrote this after a friend of mine linked to this discussion

Those insidious hidden purposes... If any Anarchist Memes admins are reading this. What. The. Fuck? Pointing out that one of your admins is a serial harasser and rape apologist points to some hidden purpose is 1) paranoid or 2) Ites manipulating again. I for one would be happy to "like" your page again if you deal with this appropriately. Indeed, I would even applaud you.

As the person who wrote the blog... I want to make it clear that nobody has contacted me personally about this so called “accountability process”. I haven’t consented to it and neither have the other people who Ben has harassed. I also think it’s very unlikely that I will consent to it in future given I am already being accused of having “hidden purposes”.

This really doesn’t show much good faith on the part of AM.

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Ites did actually use AM to target people from the iww branch that expelled him but it shouldnt even matter whether he used his position as admin to do so or not because the fact remains that he has an long history of this behaviour and it isthe type of behaviour that if group associated with him washes their hands of will only condone it (this is aimed at AM, not at other groups who may have some links to AM and were not aware of Ites' actions).

As another of the people harassed by Ites, and the person he victim blamed, I have had no contact from anyone at AM either and find it pretty hostile of AM that they consider there to be a hidden motive for Ites being called out. As if wanting to hold someone who has harassed myself and others and engaged in bullying and blaming me as a rape victim are not reason enough to call him out and unfortunately it seems that making it publicly known that he created AM seems to be the only way to get them to even acknowledge anything. Individual admins, I don't know how many, were aware of the situation and quite a few months. ago I posted about it on AM only too have it removed and be blocked.

Edited to fix spelling.

Sorry for the spelling. I'm hopeless at typing on my phone.

https://www.facebook.com/anarchistmemes/posts/520658814672257

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Klas, are we talking about the same page? There is more than one page and a group. I was told by somebody from the admin that one of the pages was made by him - but maybe he was mistaken. Just asking...

Anarkismo doesn't have a Facebook page (I searched the Internet with a Famous Web Search Engine). As I'm not on Facebook, either, I can't see what the link is. I can say three things, however:

1. If you have a web site, you can put a link on it to any other page on the web. Thus, you have a one-way association and the page you're linking to has no influence over the page from which the link comes. Often, the admins of the destination page won't even know about the link.

2. Anarchist Memes is not one of the affiliated organisations of Anarkismo:

http://www.anarkismo.net/about_us

3. If the person at the centre of this controversy applied to join an Anarchist group of which I was a member, I would oppose his application.

An hour ago, Anarchist Memes claimed that there was no evidence in the first report(?) and dismissed the whole process of the IWW in handling the person in question. It was also pretty defensive of him when his character was attacked by some posters. So it seems like this is going to be like another Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case.

Well, someone with access to the account did so in the comments - I doubt very much it was an agreed statement somehow.

Either the person in question has complete dictatorial control over Anarchist Memes or the group as a whole just don't give a damn, and their "accountability" process is just a PR stunt.

Naw that's not how it works usually, individual admins will all have access to the official AM persona and be able to post whatever/whenever, it won't necessarily be noticed or acted on by the rest of the collective until they log in or check that thread (in fact the comments now seem to have been removed, suggesting that's probably what happened).