Re GoDaddy finally took down neo-Nazi website & Google booted it next

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dan Gillmor <dan () gillmor com>
> Date: August 14, 2017 at 4:26:30 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] GoDaddy finally took down neo-Nazi website & Google booted it next
>
>
> As long as there are a LOT of hosting companies, this kind of corporate
> action will be understandable and defensible. But if the hosting market
> consolidates and centralizes the way other parts of the ecosystem have
> done, it will be a choke point that could cut off speech in ways that we
> will regret.
>
> > On 08/14/2017 11:38 AM, Dave Farber wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > > *From: *Kimi Wei <kimi () thewei com <mailto:kimi () thewei com>>
> > > *Subject: **GoDaddy finally took down neo-Nazi website & Google booted
> > > it next*
> > > *Date: *August 14, 2017 at 2:36:42 PM EDT
> > > *To: *David Farber <dave () farber net <mailto:dave () farber net>>
> > >
> > > https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/08/14/godaddy-kicks-out-neo-nazi-website-the-daily-stormer/563949001/
> > >
> > > GoDaddy kicks out neo-Nazi website 'The Daily Stormer’
> > >
> > > Web hosting company GoDaddy pulls the plug on neo-Nazi website Daily
> > > Stormer. Veuer's Maria Mercedes Galuppo (@mariamgaluppo) has more. Buzz60
> > >
> > > PHOENIX — GoDaddy, which is the largest Internet domain-name seller in
> > > the world, announced Sunday evening it will no longer provide
> > > service to the neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer. 
> > >
> > > The company (GDDY), which is based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has drawn
> > > criticism for months for its willingness to provide a domain name for
> > > a website "dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white
> > > nationalism," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
> > >
> > > The move comes after The Daily Stormer published an article Sunday
> > > using sexist and obscene language to demean Heather Heyer,
> > > the 32-year-old woman who was killedwhen a car driven by an alleged
> > > white supremacist mowed down a crowd of people after a white
> > > nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. 
> > >
> > > After it was removed from Go Daddy, The Daily Stormer switched its
> > > domain registration to Google, according to public search records. But
> > > after several hours, a Google spokesperson told Reuters that the
> > > website violates its terms of service and has since also removed.
> > >
> > > After someone tweeted a reference to the article asking GoDaddy to
> > > remove it and ban the site, GoDaddy replied, "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."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > People gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia to remember Heather
> > > Heyer, the woman killed when a car rammed into a group of
> > > demonstrators on Saturday. (Aug. 14) AP
> > >
> > > GoDaddy corporate spokesman Dan Race confirmed the action in an email
> > > to The Arizona Republic, which like USA TODAY is a part of the
> > > USA TODAY Network. 
> > >
> > > Previously, the company served "as the domain name registrar for The
> > > Daily Stormer, through its subsidiary Domains by Proxy, as it
> > > has throughout the site’s four-year history," according to the
> > > investigative news website, Reveal. 
> > >
> > > Kimi Wei
> > > kimi () thewei com <mailto:kimi () thewei com>  @kimiwei
> > > facebook.com/thekimiwei <http://facebook.com/thekimiwei>
> > > 862-203-8814
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