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GoDaddy Bans Daily Stormer

Cardinal said:
Poor Daily Stormer.

Google canceled the registration of a Nazi website soon after it moved its domain registration to the service, a Google spokesperson told CNBC.

"We are cancelling Daily Stormer's registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service," the company representative said in a statement.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/god...at-it-wrote-about-charlottesville-victim.html
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The Daily Stormer remains accessible and is still listed as registered by Google Inc. The website has experienced DoS attacks which owner Andrew Anglin blamed on Anonymous. On their Twitter account however, Anonymous denied hacking the website and speculated the owner was experiencing troubles finding a new internet Registrar/ISP. The server has been traced to Worthington, Ohio where Anglin went to high school. His whereabouts remains unknown.

Anglin probably registered his website with Google using an automated online process. It may take Alphabet (Google) lawyers/technicians a day or so to pull the plug. But there are plenty of unscrupulous firms worldwide that will register and host the Daily Stormer.
 
nota bene said:
There is nothing funny about that.

If Go Daddy has shut down a site, that's its business decision, and good for it. But the larger question is whether Storm Front and other hate sites should be allowed to exist.

I say, "First Amendment."
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The First Amendment only protects you from government censorship, if Go Daddy takes down this site, its not a violation of the First Amendment.
 
Yes_Minister said:
The First Amendment only protects you from government censorship, if Go Daddy takes down this site, its not a violation of the First Amendment.
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Is there some reason you think I need you to explain this to me? :roll:
 
nota bene said:
Is there some reason you think I need you to explain this to me? :roll:
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I am just curious why you brought up the first amendment in regards to this situation, if it doesn't technically apply. I am not trying to offend you.
 
OlNate said:
K...what's this in reference to?
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A black player protested by kneeing during the pledge of allegence. A lot of the same people who found that offensive are yelling about freedom of speech for Neo-Nazi's marching with torches and surrounding a black church (the First Baptist Church)
 
Looks like they will have to operate their own server, assuming they can gather enough brain cells together to figure out how. ;)
 
Yes_Minister said:
I am just curious why you brought up the first amendment in regards to this situation, if it doesn't technically apply. I am not trying to offend you.
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It applies to the last part of her statement about being "allowed to exist". Not directly related to the OP but certainly tangentially.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
It applies to the last part of her statement about being "allowed to exist". Not directly related to the OP but certainly tangentially.
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But still if the First Amendment only applies to government censorship, I just don't see how it applies to this particular situation, Go Daddy is not a government organization.
 
Yes_Minister said:
But still if the First Amendment only applies to government censorship, I just don't see how it applies to this particular situation, Go Daddy is not a government organization.
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The "allowed to exist" part obviously referred to the governemnt as only the government has the power to disallow such a thing. Go Daddy has no such power.
 
RAMOSS said:
A black player protested by kneeing during the pledge of allegence. A lot of the same people who found that offensive are yelling about freedom of speech for Neo-Nazi's marching with torches and surrounding a black church (the First Baptist Church)
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Good grief, that was a Kaepernick reference? The straws these alt-right donuts are grasping for are getting thinner and thinner.
 
countryboy said:
Yes they are, and I'm free to highlight their partisan hackery.
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How is it "partisan hackery" to block a hate group? That's not a political stance, that's a human decency stance...folks on both the left and the right denounce it as the utter garbage that it is, and enough people are getting pissed off about it that companies are starting to recognize, in this day and age of boycotts from both the Left and the Right, that supporting such sewage is going to cost them. Basic decency and profit is what this is about.
 
RAMOSS said:
A black player protested by kneeing during the pledge of allegence. A lot of the same people who found that offensive are yelling about freedom of speech for Neo-Nazi's marching with torches and surrounding a black church (the First Baptist Church)
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Great point about Kaepernick. It shows how hypocritical Republicans are.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Looks like they will have to operate their own server, assuming they can gather enough brain cells together to figure out how. ;)
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In order to operate their own server, they'll need a lot more than brain cells. They'll need a lot of money. They'll also need an ISP willing to allow them to keep a web server, which most ISPs are not likely to do, unless you have some kind of a business account.

And once you sign up for a business account, you are restricted to Terms of Service....so you can see how well that may work out in America.
 
OlNate said:
How is it "partisan hackery" to block a hate group? That's not a political stance, that's a human decency stance...folks on both the left and the right denounce it as the utter garbage that it is, and enough people are getting pissed off about it that companies are starting to recognize, in this day and age of boycotts from both the Left and the Right, that supporting such sewage is going to cost them. Basic decency and profit is what this is about.
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It's partisan hackery to not block all hate groups. Have they blocked AntiFirstAmendment? BLM? Media Matters? CAIR? No, of course they haven't.
 
countryboy said:
It's partisan hackery to not block all hate groups. Have they blocked AntiFirstAmendment? BLM? Media Matters? CAIR? No, of course they haven't.
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Ya, don't care, **** white supremacists and anyone that supports them for any reason.

But you are correct, while partisan in this forum generally tends to refer to Left or Right bias, technically it can extend to causes as well. So, bravo to GoDaddy for the partisanship against hate groups. I hope they never stop, especially since, as a business, they can neither impede, nor are obliged to support, anyone's first amendment rights.
 
OlNate said:
Ya, don't care, **** white supremacists and anyone that supports them for any reason.

But you are correct, while partisan in this forum generally tends to refer to Left or Right bias, technically it can extend to causes as well. So, bravo to GoDaddy for the partisanship against hate groups. I hope they never stop, especially since, as a business, they can neither impede, nor are obliged to support, anyone's first amendment rights.
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Yeah, you just don't get it. But I suspect willful ignorance. Go Daddy isn't against hate groups, they are singling out a hate group because it's politically expedient. While continuing to support hate groups they evidently agree with. Hence, they are actually practicing hate. It's no surprise though, it's simply the liberal way. :shrug:
 
countryboy said:
Yeah, you just don't get it. But I suspect willful ignorance. Go Daddy isn't against hate groups, they are singling out a hate group because it's politically expedient. While continuing to support hate groups they evidently agree with. Hence, they are actually practicing hate. It's no surprise though, it's simply the liberal way. :shrug:
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Sorry, dude, you'll never inspire an ounce of shame in me for hating hate groups. You'll also never convince me that a group that is seeking to be free of racially motivated violence at the hands of the police is a hate group, no matter what methodology they employ. And if antifa could guarantee that their violence would only extend to militant white supremacists, I'd be first in line at the crowd funding website. I'm not familiar with the other groups you mentioned, I'll check them out. So, as far as I can tell, GoDaddy *is* against all hate groups...you just have a weird definition of hate group that they, or I, don't agree with.
 
Slyfox696 said:
In order to operate their own server, they'll need a lot more than brain cells. They'll need a lot of money. They'll also need an ISP willing to allow them to keep a web server, which most ISPs are not likely to do, unless you have some kind of a business account.

And once you sign up for a business account, you are restricted to Terms of Service....so you can see how well that may work out in America.
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Excellent points. I'd say they may have to resort to the Dark Web but there are probably some countries out there where the service providers let things slide a bit more.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Excellent points. I'd say they may have to resort to the Dark Web but there are probably some countries out there where the service providers let things slide a bit more.
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Would there be anything more ironic than "white nationalists" contracting with darker skinned foreigners in order to propagate their white message?
 
Slyfox696 said:
Would there be anything more ironic than "white nationalists" contracting with darker skinned foreigners in order to propagate their white message?
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That thought crossed my mind immediately after making that post. :)
 
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