Neo-Nazi Website Gets Dropped By GoDaddy, Possibly Hacked By Anonymous
GoDaddy, one of the largest domain registrar services on the web, has announced that it will no longer host the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer. The comapny's announcement came amidst the public outcry against the neo-Nazi news site's coverage of the deadly vehicular rampage that took place during the Unite The Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend, which left at least one woman dead and 19 counter-protesters injured.
The social media backlash against The Daily Stormer, and by association, its web hosting service GoDaddy, began shortly after the death of Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old Charlottesville resident who was fatally run over by a car while counter-protesting the alt-right rally on Saturday, when The Daily Stormer published an article smearing the victim using a series of sexist and derogatory epithets. The next day, GoDaddy responded to the outcry against The Daily Stormer with a statement revealing that it would cease hosting the publication's domain on the grounds of violating the terms of service, as the article in question was deemed to incite violence and hate speech.
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.
β GoDaddy (@GoDaddy) August 14, 2017
In another email statement given to TechCrunch, GoDaddy further stated that "if no action is taken after 24 hours, we will cancel the service. Given this latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service.β
After being dropped by GoDaddy, The Daily Stormer tried to re-register its domain with Google, though its attempt to find a new host was promptly rejected by the company on the same grounds. Then this morning, a peculiar bulletin allegedly posted on behalf of the hacktivist collective Anonymous covered the home page of the troubled white supremacist news site, which proclaimed that the group has taken control of the site in a vendetta against the events that unfolded over the weekend.
βTHIS SITE IS NOW UNDER THE CONTROL OF ANONYMOUS. WE HAVE TAKEN THIS SITE IN THE NAME OF HEATHER HEYER A VICTIM OF WHITE SUPREMACIST TERRORISM. FOR TOO LONG THE DAILY STORMER AND ANDREW ANGLIN HAVE SPEWED THEIR PUTRID HATE ON THIS SITE. THAT WILL NOT BE HAPPENING ANYMORE."
However Anonymous has not confirmed the hack and later claimed no responsibility in a series of tweets. "Warning to our followers: We cannot confirm dailystormer was indeed hacked," said Anonymous in a tweet.
Warning to our followers: We cannot confirm dailystormer was indeed hacked. Remain cautious. #OpDomesticTerrorism #Anonymous
β Anonymous π΄ (@AnonyInfo) August 14, 2017
We find claim that it took a "UNITED FORCE OF ELITE HACKERS" to hack a CMS run by amateurs incredibly amusing.
β Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) August 14, 2017
If goal of Daily Stormer was to get us to celebrate a BS claim, it backfired. Seriously, suck less.
β Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) August 14, 2017
As for Heyer, an anti-racist activist and the sole victim of the vehicular attack carried out by white supremacist James Alex Fields, many sympathizers and supporters of the cause paid their respect by raising more than $225,000 in just about 24 hours on GoFundMe.
Fields, the 20-year-old suspect behind the deadly rampage, has been charged with second degree manslaughter.
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Evilthing
I have a feeling that this will be slippery slope in action.
CupboardMonsterTheRevenge
oh fuck off
Agent_Dmitry
Eh, I don't think that will happen. DS got deliberately removed for violating GoDaddy's ToS, rather than being removed just because of their ideology. If the latter was the case, then maybe you'd have a point, they could just remove any site they deem to be wrong.
As long as a website doesn't violate the ToS, they should be fine.
Penultimate Keyboard Cat
Breach of TOS =/= slippery slope
Granted I'm pretty sure most of those hard core alt-right boys don't care about TOS or civil law anyways.
Xellos
Tbh, this will probably end with DS getting someone to host them again and the whole thing getting buried in time.
Meanwhile, ED has users whoring out pictures of their toes for a legal defense fund.
Gumshoe
This is interesting, because it sets a precedent for GoDaddy now. presumed that up to this point they simply did not monitor the content of any websites hosted on their platform, or renting their domains. Now that they've drawn a line in the sand, people will expect them to do it for other similar sites and hold them accountable if they fail to do so.
Penultimate Keyboard Cat
They've always had a TOS though. Maybe it's just so vague that few sites ever actually breach it.
xxweegeeplxx
i only remember of godaddy for this :
QuantumElectronicsDude
Fun fact: The guy behind Unite The Right, Jason Kessler, was also involved with Occupy and was a staunch Obama supporter, right up until November 2016.
Seems like everything behind it stinks of a manufactured crisis.
Penultimate Keyboard Cat
Source?
SicklyVivian
Assuming that is true, what makes it a manufactured crisis? How do we know he didn't just get "redpilled" and switched sides? Also, sauce plz.
CriticalPwnage
Fun fact: You still haven't posted a source.
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Clownfish
Decent move for host, but bad move overall when 'anon' hijacked it. I have no love for stormeweiners, but taking taking away a fringe sanctuary for far right whom recently retaliates to the far left aggrrssions, and before that just shitpost and being assholes in their fringe space in general.
So, they have been demonised, any attempts at civic protest has been counter with antifa violence, their voices silence, twisted by media and spun into something to generate more clicks and agitate people, manhunted by 'Punch Nazis', and now they are being doxxed and their sanctuary closed.
I almost feel sorry for them, but I feel sorry for the next happening when far left pushed too far and left with the opponents who have nothing to lose. Sow the seed, reap the whirlwind.
Elenir1
Seriously, the site seems like a joke. I may not agree with the points of view of the woman who died, but for fucks sake, mocking her death?
Seriously, far right of the us. Just band together, use the means of dialogue and democracy that your country has. Then you could have some support for you.
Clownfish
They did, I believe. It resulted in Trump being elected, guess who violently rioted when it happened. Not mentioning punching people at Trump rally even before the election day and PunchNazi fiasco.
QuantumElectronicsDude
Jason Kessler, the guy who organized Unite the Right, is a leftist troll and the whole thing is a manufactured crisis.
Penultimate Keyboard Cat
Source?
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Inferno
Auf wiedersehen, Deustch-bags.
Knife 2.0 (γͺγ©γγ―γΉ)
Wondering who the daily stormer is?
Glad I got those screenshots.
Panuru
I wasn't particularly expecting Nazis to be tasteful, but still.