GoDaddy boots white supremacist web site after offensive post

[Doug the Dem]

Source: Reuters

August 14, 2017 / 12:57 AM

(Reuters) - The web hosting company GoDaddy said on Sunday it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider after the extremist web site posted an article denigrating the woman who was killed at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.

"We informed The Daily Stormer that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service," GoDaddy posted on its official Twitter page.

The Daily Stormer post in question denigrated Heather Heyer, 32, who was fatally struck by a car allegedly driven by a man with white nationalist views, for her physical appearance and what it said were anti-white male views.

The Daily Stormer is a neo-Nazi, white supremacist website associated with the alt-right movement, which was spearheading the rally on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia which resulted in violence, including Heyer's death.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests-godaddy-idUSKCN1AU0CV?il=0

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Waitaminute: these GodDamn GoDaddy people didn't know The Daily Stormer is a hate site???

[Julian Englis]

1. It's seem they would have violated it a long time ago, but I'll take it.

I hate Nazis

[flibbitygiblets]

2. Good point, GD almost certainly knew--but now it could cost them customers

So "out ya go" I guess. That's one good reason protesting is so important. Companies listen to the bottom line.

[Eugene]

3. Good call, but there will be a freedom of speech fight.

GoDaddy probably knew full well, but they waited until keeping Daily Stormer became more trouble than dumping them.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "there will be a freedom of speech fight"

There may be a "fight" but the provider is a private entity with a TOS (like DU is a private entity with a TOS), and any suit against them would most likely fail.

I.e., these RW loons may have the "right" to rant and rave but the 1st amendment specifically deals with (in part) what Congress (the "government" ) cannot do (legislate to abridge or revoke) regarding the right of the people to speak, assemble, and petition the government.

[Calista241]

5. It depends on if there is another way for the stormer people to publish their views.

Airbnb could get away with it because their customers had other options. They could have gone to another hotel, rented a Winnebago, etc.

But if a group of these domain registration companies get together and effectively censor a class or group of people, then the Stormers could seek relief through the courts.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. There are a number of domain name providers out there

and notably the much-maligned original ICANN provider - Network Solutions. People often tend to hop from provider to provider looking for cheaper renewal costs. They shouldn't have a problem landing somewhere else (but possibly at a higher cost ).

[Honeycombe8]

7. True. Any owner of a website has a right to have its own rules.

The participants aren't banned from the internet. Just from the one site, which is owned privately.

[LanternWaste]

9. No more than should a publisher decline to issue new editions of a given book.

No more than should a publisher decline to issue new editions of a given book.

[SunSeeker]

6. Better late than never I guess. nt

[csziggy]

10. Just now on MSNBC - Annonymous has hacked The Daily Stormer web site

I'm not going there to check it out, but

[DK504]

11. Don't give these "people" one second. Shut them down - now.

[Blue Idaho]

12. Hunt them down - Drive them out. nt.

[Sunlei]

13. one way to get rid of them. free speech hate sites try hard not to violate terms of service.

they're nothing without the internet.