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Google Cancels Domain Registration For Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer (businessinsider.com)
Google has cancelled the domain registration for The Daily Stormer, the company confirmed to news outlet BusinessInsider. After GoDaddy kicked the neo-Nazi website off its service on Monday, a "whois" search for the domain had noted that the website had moved its domain registrar to Google. In a statement, Google said, "We are cancelling Daily Stormer's registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service." Last week, The Daily Stormer posted an offensive article about Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old legal assistant, who was killed by a car that 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. drove into a group of protestors at the Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday.
A message purportedly posted by hackers appeared on the Daily Stormer a few hours ago, The Guardian reported. Anonymous hacker group has taken credit for "hacking" the website, according to the message posted on the website, which adds that the editing rights of the website are now in the hands of Anonymous. It remains unclear, however, whether the site has actually been hacked.
A message purportedly posted by hackers appeared on the Daily Stormer a few hours ago, The Guardian reported. Anonymous hacker group has taken credit for "hacking" the website, according to the message posted on the website, which adds that the editing rights of the website are now in the hands of Anonymous. It remains unclear, however, whether the site has actually been hacked.
I already proposed a new system. Nobody cared. Maybe someone will be listening to me after all. Guess I should get to coding it.
Except that the content isn't any more difficult to access. An IP address is no more difficult to type into a browser's address bar than a DNS name, nor is a link to an IP address any harder to click on. And this is assuming that this site won't be able to find a DNS address anywhere at all, which is also quite a stretch. If nothing else, I'm sure the .ru registrar would be happy to hook them up.
There are also many sites thaf thrive without any DNS names at all, in the deep web, for example. There simply is no case for censorship here. This is just a business exercising its right to free association by choosing not to associate with monsters.
Strangely enough, alt-right folks are demonstrating without masks, not like antifa cowards.