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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Did Someone Have to Get Killed Before GoDaddy Severed Ties With The Daily Stormer?
About eight months ago, the Daily Stormer took pictures of Jews from Whitefish, Montana, and posted them above an image of a concentration camp. That image was part of a Daily Stormer "troll storm" on behalf of white nationalist Richard Spencer that involved vile language similar to that used by the Daily Stormer over the weekend. At the time, it was not enough to cause GoDaddy to drop the Daily Stormer.
GoDaddy, the online domain registration and hosting service, has finally stopped doing business with the Daily Stormer, telling The Washington Post that the neo-Nazi web site went too far by posting an article that mocked and degraded Heather Heyer, the woman killed during Saturday's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
When I followed up with the company this morning, GoDaddy spokesperson Dan Race told me via e-mail: Given the Daily Stormers article came on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service."
But the Daily Stormer's dance with language that could incite white supremacist violence has been going on for a long time, raising questions about what, specifically, made this Daily Stormer article different than others. The past articles I'm most familiar with trace to December 2016 and January 2017, when the Daily Stormer launched a "troll storm" against the Jews (and perceived Jews) of Whitefish, Montana, as vengeance for actions taken to make the town a less comfortable vacation spot for white nationalist Richard Spencer (who had been spending a lot of time in Whitefish thanks to the generosity of his well-off parents).
GoDaddy, the online domain registration and hosting service, has finally stopped doing business with the Daily Stormer, telling The Washington Post that the neo-Nazi web site went too far by posting an article that mocked and degraded Heather Heyer, the woman killed during Saturday's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
When I followed up with the company this morning, GoDaddy spokesperson Dan Race told me via e-mail: Given the Daily Stormers article came on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service."
But the Daily Stormer's dance with language that could incite white supremacist violence has been going on for a long time, raising questions about what, specifically, made this Daily Stormer article different than others. The past articles I'm most familiar with trace to December 2016 and January 2017, when the Daily Stormer launched a "troll storm" against the Jews (and perceived Jews) of Whitefish, Montana, as vengeance for actions taken to make the town a less comfortable vacation spot for white nationalist Richard Spencer (who had been spending a lot of time in Whitefish thanks to the generosity of his well-off parents).
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/08/14/25348281/why-did-someone-have-to-get-killed-before-godaddy-severed-ties-with-the-daily-stormer
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Why Did Someone Have to Get Killed Before GoDaddy Severed Ties With The Daily Stormer? (Original Post)
icymist
Aug 2017
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progressoid
(50,013 posts)1. Indeed.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)2. GoDaddy has 52 million domains and millions of websites being hosted.
Its pretty hard to police all of that, to be fair.
icymist
(15,888 posts)3. Yeah. It would be too hard to police a well know white supremacist site
that your domain company is hosting. No matter how many complaints they receive. If it's that hard then maybe they shouldn't be a hosting site? Just a suggestion.
caraher
(6,279 posts)4. It's not a crisis until a young white woman gets killed
Hard to imagine this was their very first TOS violation!