Antifa.com redirects to JoeBiden.com???

[dixiechiken1]

My brother, (a Trumpie), sent me a text this morning telling me to go to www.antifa.com. I clicked on the link & it takes you to joebiden.com.

Wonder if Joe Biden's campaign knows about this? Is there anything they can do to stop it?

[NurseJackie]

1. My husband says it's possible.

Wonder if Joe Biden's campaign knows about this? Is there anything they can do to stop it?

My husband says it's possible. Apparently the Biden servers can "peek" at where the incoming traffic is coming from (ie: directly from a typed-in URL, or from a link at a specific site, OR an automatic redirect at a specific location) and then Biden's web server can be configured to respond in different ways depending on where the traffic arrives from.

If the incoming traffic comes from an automatic re-link from antifa.com then Biden's server can display a specific page with a customized message about that subject. Or the Biden server can present a "that page doesn't exist" error message.

[dixiechiken1]

3. Okay, thanks!

I just sent his campaign a message through JoeBiden.com to let them know. I'm sure they're already aware but I hope they nip this ASAP.

[Renew Deal]

8. It's redirecting from Google Cloud

Whatever

[SharonClark]

10. Excellent advice for all Dem campaigns

about how to handle redirects, especially the “site does not exist”.

[rocktivity]

2. Any moderately talented hacker living in his parents' basement could have done it

And anyone could have purchased the domain name since Antifa doesn't exist.

But it doesn't have to be a downer for us -- let's turn it into an opportunity to make anti-fascism a virtue again!


rocktivity

[Stryst]

4. Confirmed

Just tried this myself.

[PoliticAverse]

5. See...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/antifa-redirect-joe-biden-website/

[dixiechiken1]

14. Thanks for the link!

I sent that back to him. His response? "Snopes is a joke." I just told him to READ IT. Pretty straightforward, IMO.

Screw him. These people live with a monster in every closet and a boogeyman under every bed. Must be exhausting.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. People who dismiss Snopes as a "joke" are beyond the reach of reason.

I keep wondering what it must have been like to have been their teacher in middle or high school.

[Sunsky]

6. It was already discussed here

(from a few months ago) that the domain was registered in Russia before moving to Panama where it remains currently. I believe this is another GRU tactic.

[2naSalit]

20. +1

[Renew Deal]

7. Anyone can buy any name and point it anywhere

It’s good for stirring up morons, but it means nothing. Tell him that you went to jeffreyepsteinsrapebuddy.com and it goes to donaldtrump.com

[SharonClark]

9. I wonder if there's a PutinsPuppet.com

redirect to the trump campaign?

[dixiechiken1]

11. Thanks.

He seems totally normal in every other way. I don't know what the hell happened to him.

[SharonClark]

13. Dixie - I edited my comment so your

response no longer fits. It anyone wonders, you were rightly responding to my original response. Sorry for the confusion.

[dixiechiken1]

15. Thanks for that, Sharon!

[Tones2345]

12. Conversely, the Biden camp actually bought the domain keepamericagreat.com

and filled it with Trump lies. A much better "prank" that took away Trumps ability to use that slogan.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

17. Why would "antifa" have a .com?

Is "antifa" a commercial enterprise? It would be more appropriate to have it a .org. Assuming of course, that "antifa" is a real entity.

[Oneironaut]

18. That's really easy to do, fyi.

The Trumpers who think this is actually Joe Biden’s site are really dumb.

[Freethinker65]

19. https://keepamericagreat.com/