Daily Stormer Hit From All Sides

[Mike Duvos]

Everyone's favorite Neo-Nazi parody and trolling site, The Daily
Stormer, written by Andrew Anglin, has had a bad several days.  They
published an article calling the road rage victim at the "Unite the
Right" rally a "fat childless 32-year-old slut," and the forces of
political correctness went wild.

GoDaddy gave them 24 hours to find a new domain registrar, and they
moved to Google.  Google cancelled their registration and froze the
domain, preventing them from moving it again, effectively stealing it.
They came back up as dailystormer.wang, in Chinese jurisdiction, but
that domain was seized after a few hours.  They then tried
dailystormer.ru, but Cloudflare then dumped them after a Quartz
article accused Cloudflare of "Enabling Hate."

Twitter then cancelled their status page.

They've managed to get an onion address up, at dstormer6em3i4km.onion
which points to the few places they haven't been kicked off of yet.

With major chunks of important Internet infrastructure in the hands of
giant private corporations, who can decline service to anyone at any
time for any reason, unpopular speech can get stomped on without it
technically being "censorship", which is regulation of speech by the
government.

Reading The Daily Stormer doesn't make anyone a Nazi, anymore than
reading The Landover Baptist Church makes someone a Baptist.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the site, because
right now, they are kind of the Spotted Owl in the free speech forest.

-- 
Mike Duvos
mpd at wolf359.net