DreamHost takes a beating after hosting racist Daily Stormer

Enlarge / CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA—A woman leaves a note on the ground as people gather at a memorial for Heather Heyer after her funeral service on Wednesday. Heyer was killed after a car rammed into a group of people during a planned Unite the Right rally on August 12. The Daily Stormer’s celebration of the death […]

Spurned by major firms, Daily Stormer returns with help from a startup

Enlarge (credit: CommScope) This article originally appeared on ProPublica on August 18, 2017. The neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer was back online Friday with help from a small company whose founder said he wanted to defend free speech and raise the commercial profile of his new venture. The Daily Stormer was dumped by several internet […]

CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbitrary” and “dangerous”

Enlarge / Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince at a 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt conference in London. (credit: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Until recently, CloudFlare prided itself on its unwavering commitment to free speech. Even when he was criticized for providing service to alleged terrorist groups in 2013, CEO Matthew Prince stood firm, insisting that “a website is speech. […]

Cloudflare CEO: Hackers pushed The Daily Stormer offline as soon as Cloudflare stopped protecting it

The CEO of Cloudflare said he is “deeply uncomfortable” with his own decision to have his company stop protecting The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website. He decided to stop working with The Daily Stormer after its team suggested that Cloudflare sympathized with its Nazi ideology. The Daily Stormer’s site was taken down by attackers as soon […]

Racist Daily Stormer goes down again as CloudFlare drops support

Matthew Prince, cofounder and chief executive officer of CloudFlare. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) All week, the infamous hate site Daily Stormer has been battling to stay online in the face of a concerted social media campaign to shut it down. The site lost its “dailystormer.com” domain on Monday after first GoDaddy and […]

Google Domains, GoDaddy blacklist white supremacist site Daily Stormer

Enlarge / Flowers commemorate Heather Heyer, victim of Saturday’s deadly car attack in Charlottesville. (credit: Bob Mical) For years, the website Daily Stormer has promoted hatred against Jews, black people, LGBT people, and other minorities, making it one of the Internet’s most infamous destinations. But on Sunday, editor Andrew Anglin outdid himself by publishing a vulgar, […]

GoDaddy dumps white supremacist site ‘Daily Stormer’

White supremacist website Daily Stormer just lost its web domain. In a tweet, GoDaddy claims it’s giving the site “24 hours” to move to another domain provider, having found it to be in violation of its terms and services. The announcement came in response to a Twitter appeal from The New Agenda co-founder Amy Siskind, […]

GoDaddy boots white supremacist site The Daily Stormer

REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (Reuters) – The web hosting company GoDaddy said on Sunday it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider after the extremist web site posted an article denigrating the woman who was killed at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. “We informed The Daily Stormer that they […]

GoDaddy gives neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer 24 hours to find a new host

(Reuters) — The web hosting company GoDaddy said on Sunday it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider after the extremist web site posted an article denigrating the woman who was killed at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. “We informed The Daily Stormer that they have 24 […]