Editing Encyclopedia Dramatica (section)

===2010 ownership by Evers===
In March 2010, a "Joseph Evers" was recognized as the owner by ABC News, reporting on the site being blacklisted by the [[Australian Communications and Media Authority]].<ref>{{cite news |work=ABC |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-03-18/dramatica-owner-refuses-to-remove-racist-content/370030 |date=18 March 2010 |title=Dramatica owner refuses to remove 'racist' content |quote=The site's owner, Joseph Evers, has blogged that Encyclopedia Dramatica will "never be censored in any way". Mr Evers says the site's owners "laughed" when they discovered they were on the Australian Communications and Media Authority's list of websites to be banned under the Government's planned internet filter.}}</ref>

The [[Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission]] (aka [[HREOC]]) contacted Evers threatening him with charges under Australian law.<ref name=9news>
{{cite news |work=[[9news]] |url=https://www.9news.com.au/technology/dramatica-owner-could-face-charges/f62bc3d3-cfa2-4a4c-a856-301371817b7a |title=Dramatica owner could face charges |date=16 March 2010}}<br>
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| title = Dramatica owner could face charges
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| first = Henri
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| url = http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/1028037/encyclopedia-dramatica-owner-could-face-charges
| date = March 16, 2010
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On December 8, 2010, Encyclopedia Dramatica deleted its article on [[Operation Payback]].<ref name="gawkernoose">{{cite web|url=http://gawker.com/5709789/noose-closes-around-pro+wikileaks-vigilantes |title=Noose Closes Around Pro-Wikileaks Vigilantes |first=Ryan |last=Tate |date=December 8, 2010 |work=Gawker |access-date=July 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812065510/http://gawker.com/5709789/noose-closes-around-pro+wikileaks-vigilantes |archive-date=August 12, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref> On the same day, Facebook deleted its Operation Payback page, and Twitter suspended Operation Payback's account.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeisaac/2010/12/08/facebook-and-twitter-suspend-operation-payback-accounts/ |title=Facebook and Twitter Suspend Operation Payback Accounts |first=Mike |last=Isaac |date=December 8, 2010 |work=Forbes |access-date=July 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814131955/http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeisaac/2010/12/08/facebook-and-twitter-suspend-operation-payback-accounts/ |archive-date=August 14, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref> An anonymous source told [[Gawker]] that the Encyclopedia Dramatica article was deleted as the result of court orders.<ref name="gawkernoose" />

In June 2020 it was reported by [[Canary Mission]] that [[Andrew "weev" Auernheimer]] is both the "{{Mono|weev}}" who "[[Zoombombed]]" a March 2020 chat for Jewish teens, and the "Joseph Evers" who owned and co-created the 2010 instance of ED and who has been wanted by the [[Australian Human Rights Commission]] since.<ref>{{Cite web|date=7 March 2021|title=Andrew Auernheimer|url=https://canarymission.org/individual/Andrew_Auernheimer|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-16|website=[[Canary Mission]]}}</ref><ref name="JNS">{{cite news|date=8 June 2020|title=New evidence links white supremacist 'Zoombomber' to man wanted in Australia|work=Jewish News Syndicate|url=https://www.jns.org/australia-commission-aims-to-ban-white-supremacist-who-disrupted-teen-webinar/|quote=New evidence uncovered by the Canary Mission, an anti-Semitism watchdog site, has revealed that Auernhaimer has another pseudonym, “Joseph Evers,” who was listed as the owner and creator of a racist website and Wikipedia parody site called Encyclopedia Dramatica created in 2010. Since 2010, Evers has been wanted by Australia’s Human Rights Commission for violating the country’s Racial Discrimination Act in connection to his creation of the racist website.}}</ref>