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Stormfront, the Internets Oldest White Supremacist Site, Says Its Going Broke
The hate forum is making less than $2,000 a month, and insiders claim its main founder just retired. Its the latest blow to white supremacists online.
Kelly Weill
04.10.18 5:03 AM ET
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Our contributions have once again totaled less than $2,000, which is not enough to cover our basic server and radio bills, and this month we no longer have enough personal money to make up the difference, Black wrote last week in a post first spotted by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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My plan is to shut down the main server on the 6th, backing everything up offsite first. I hope to also move the entire 50gb database to our much smaller, secondary server, he wrote. This will be difficult because of the size of this site, and that server is not nearly adequate to run everything. But I hope it will be enough to allow access to Sustaining Members, but probably not to other users or guests.
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All of the years that Don posted how much was needed to run this site and all the months that SF didnt receive enough donations. That difference was made up from Chloe Black's income. She is now recently retired and deserves to spend her time with her grandbabies. This situation combined with litigation from when SF was shut down last August, Don has more bills and less revenue to run the site.
Chloe Black, who could not be reached for comment on Monday, has a long history of involvement in the white supremacist movement. Chloe was previously married to former KKK leader David Duke, whom she met at a White Youth Alliance college gathering in the 1970s, and later divorced him to marry Black, another former KKK leader and neo-Nazi who was convicted in 1981 of attempting an armed overthrow of the predominantly black island nation of Dominica.
But Don Black who lives and operates Stormfront out of a house owned entirely by Chloe and valued at about half a million dollars is apparently unemployed, although he claims to do some Internet consulting work, the SPLC wrote in 2008, when it was revealed that Chloe had been doing public relations work, including for a school that focused on black and Latino children.
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Black isnt just paying Stormfronts expenses. A search of web domains registered under his email address reveals hes squatting on a number of web addresses, at unknown cost to him. Among those addresses is MartinLutherKing.org, MLKing.org, a few URLs with variations on white nationalism, and whitesingles.com. The Martin Luther King-related addresses used to host racist content, but now appear defunct after a Daily Beast report earlier this year. Whitesingles.com redirects to Stormfronts dating page.
Black is also squatting on DerekBlack.com, the name of his son who famously disavowed his familys racist views after President Donald Trumps election, and now speaks against white supremacy. From 2010 until 2013, Derek and his father ran The Derek Black Show, a radio program Black paid $600 per week to broadcast on AM radio.
The radio program, alone, cost Black thousands of dollars each month, on top of the costs of running Stormfront. Five years later, according to Blacks plea for donations, the white supremacist site doesnt even generate enough to fund the old radio show.
Kelly Weill
kelly.weill@thedailybeast.com
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,509 posts)Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Like that wasn't going to be abused.
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)is the organization broke or does the owner want a new sailboat....only time will tell
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)to continue
marble falls
(57,425 posts)hatrack
(59,599 posts)You just can't make shit like this up!
marble falls
(57,425 posts)hatrack
(59,599 posts)Law firms can still get really Dickensian sometimes. There's a firm (still there, but now with a different name) in Lawrence KS. When I lived there years ago, it was called Petefish, immel & Heeb.
marble falls
(57,425 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)related to RW media magnate and convicted felon Conrad Black?
marble falls
(57,425 posts)hatrack
(59,599 posts)Hard to tell . . .
marble falls
(57,425 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Same scum, same crappy world view, just a different face.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)marble falls
(57,425 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Mark your calendars.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,491 posts)Maybe they should contact that Australian that pocked money from the fraudulent black lives matter facebook page.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)But there's always Sinclair.
marble falls
(57,425 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)...instead of putting all their eggs in one basket.
Behind the Aegis
(54,042 posts)Many here probably don't know, but the late Du'er, AlienGirl, routinely took on Don Black. She was unafraid of his bigoted ass. I was always afraid that POS would do something to her because he did threaten her more than a few times. Hard to believe she has been gone for six years.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And turn the tables on Black. If he's holding MLK-themed web addresses, we could turn Stormfront into something that would really chap his pasty white hide.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)...will do that for you.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)marble falls
(57,425 posts)washer at Waffle House.