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Fighting Slovakia's far right online and on the streetsSlovak anti-fascists search for new ways to confront the far right before crucial regional elections.Anti-fascists are pushing back against the far-right Kotleba - People's Party Our Slovakia [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]ByPatrick StricklandRuzomberok, Slovakia - When 68-year-old Jan Bencik's son created a Facebook account for him after he retired four years ago, he saw little reason to log in, save for boredom. Just over a year ago, however, he discovered a way to make social media useful: tracking and doxing Slovakia's far right.On a frigid afternoon in March, the retiree steps into a local pizza parlour and shakes the snow off his winter coat. He takes a seat on a sofa in the corner of the room, removes his laptop from its leather case and flips it open.The former phone technician and publishing house employee opens a folder on his desktop, pulling up screenshots of social media posts, most of them since deleted, by far-right social media users.He points a finger at an image on the screen. It shows a hefty Slovak man wearing a backwards baseball cap and a wide grin as he lays on a charred oven in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. His arms are tattooed with coded numbers and neo-Nazi imagery.Bencik publishes photos like this on the front page of his blog, where he dumps the personal information - name, phone number and address - a practice known as "doxing", of those who post white supremacist, neo-Nazi and racist content on social media.Continued: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/fighting-slovakia-online-streets-170529083248638.html
