Posted: Mar 01, 2020 1:40 am
Rachel Bronwyn wrote:I don't think Stormfront was deplatformed. No one took their platform away from them. They just couldn't afford to continue.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/28/anoth ... shut-down/
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Executive Director Kristen Clarke said that her organization took “action against Stormfront.”
“Their website is a vehicle used to promote racially-motivated violence and hate,” she wrote. The group told Network Solutions that Stormfront was violating their terms of service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_(website)#Public_profile_and_later_history
During the 2016 election season, site founder Don Black said that the site was experiencing huge spikes in traffic corresponding to controversial statements by Donald Trump, who is popular among white supremacists. In response, Black upgraded the site's servers.[53]
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In August 2017, Stormfront's domain name was seized by its registrar for "displaying bigotry, discrimination or hatred."[12] Earlier the same month, white supremacist news and commentary website The Daily Stormer had been removed from the public Internet for its involvement in the Unite the Right rally.[12]
The site came back online on September 29, 2017. As of October 2017, services to keep the site online were provided by Tucows, Network Solutions, and Cloudflare.