Exactly this. Before you could ignore the lone racist person in the neighborhood.
Now, they can go online, create a forum and gather together...
so much for the promise of connecting the world...
so much for the promise of connecting the world...
I loved the internet, and Prodigy, when I was a kid in the 90's and 12 year old me would be shocked to hear that sometimes I dream of going to a cabin with just a landline, radio, and desk for writing letters for a month.
Stormfront was probably the best-known forum like that before Gab. And it has been around since early 90s, first as a BBS, then as an actual web site.