GoDaddy kicks out neo-Nazi site after dead protester post
GoDaddy has given neo-Nazi web site The Daily Stormer a day to GTFO after it posted an article viciously attacking the victim of racially motivated violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In multiple tweets, the company said this morning that it had given the site’s owners 24 hours to move to a new registrar.
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 (@GoDaddy) August 14, 2017
The tweets came in response to those who questioned why GoDaddy continued to host the site in light of an article posted about Heather Heyer, who was killed while protesting white nationalists at a rally on Saturday.
A man has been arrested and charged with her murder, after allegedly driving his car into a crowd, injuring 19 others.
The article in question was a horribly vicious, cartoonishly misogynistic rant, by site founder Andrew Anglin, entitled “Heather Heyer: Woman Killed in Road Rage Incident was a Fat, Childless 32-Year-Old Slut”.
GoDaddy did not specify which terms of service the Stormer had breached, but its terms do include a prohibition against promoting violence.
The Stormer web site has a disclaimer on it stating it is “opposed to violence” and that it will ban any commentators who promote violence.
Within hours of GoDaddy’s tweets, a post appeared on the site claiming to have been written by notorious hacking collective Anonynous, which claimed the site was now under its control.
The post said that the site would be taken down within 24 hours and that quantities of material on the Stormer and Anglin had been obtained.
At this time it is not clear whether the site has really been hacked or is a hoax carried out by the Stormer itself, perhaps designed to make light of upcoming downtime.
The Daily Stormer’s domain has been hosted with GoDaddy since its launch in 2013.
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