websites that have been shut down

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7893796.html

Numerous neo-Nazi websites have been shut down in the wake of violence triggered by white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville after a campaign that targeted their online hosting companies.

Tech consultant David Finster led the way in lobbying to pull the plug with a string of tweets to server companies, including WordPress, which provided the platform for the radical voices.

Three CEOs quit Trump council over Charlottesville response

But he kept his foot on the pedal and is still targeting other online domain companies that continue to serve extremist groups – including one website that calls to “destroy Jewish tyranny”.

It comes amid a separate online campaign that has outed white nationalists who gathered in Charlottesville, triggering clashes that saw a woman killed after a car was driven into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters.

Mr Finster lobbied the server company in the wake of the right-wing march in Charlottesville after pointing out that they were being used as a platform for hate speech.

One message he shared said: “Hey, I thought I would let you know that NAZI'S are being hosted by you. BloodAndSoil.org needs to be shut down.”

Mr Finster‏ later tweeted: “It's down.” Users who try to enter the website find a message from Wordpress that reads the site is “no longer available. This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service.”

Twitter users congratulated Mr Finster after WordPress appeared to respond to his lobbying.

Campaign group Sleeping Giants, which targets “racist and sexist” media, tweeted: “Just wanted to say that @david_finster is really showing us something today. Well done.”

Owners of the right-wing website later moved their online publication to Google –but the internet giant also pulled the plug on the neo Nazi platform for “violating the terms of our service”.

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...ned-by-google/

Google explains why it banned the app for Gab, a right-wing Twitter rival

Gab's free-speech stance makes it popular with right-wing trolls and racists. [Updated]

Timothy B. Lee - 8/18/2017, 1:15 PM

When right-wing trolls and outright racists get kicked off of Twitter, they often move to Gab, a Twitter competitor. Gab was founded by Donald Trump supporter Andrew Torba, who says it's devoted to unfettered free expression online.

On Thursday, Gab said that Google had banned its Android app from the Google Play Store for violating Google's ban on hate speech.

Breaking news: Google has removed Gab's Android app from the Google Play Store for "hate speech." pic.twitter.com/jPqeEx1ID1

— Gab (@getongab) August 17, 2017

Google explained the removal in an e-mail to Ars. "In order to be on the Play Store, social networking apps need to demonstrate a sufficient level of moderation, including for content that encourages violence and advocates hate against groups of people," the statement read. "This is a long-standing rule and clearly stated in our developer policies. Developers always have the opportunity to appeal a suspension and may have their apps reinstated if they've addressed the policy violations and are compliant with our Developer Program Policies."

Gab describes itself as a "social network for creators who believe in free speech, individual liberty, and the free flow of information online." As part of that commitment to free speech, Gab's content rules are more permissive than most major social media networks. The rules ban threats and child pornography, but unlike other major social networks, it doesn't ban content that attacks people based on their race, gender, or other protected category. That has made the site popular with people who like to attack people based on their race or ethnicity.

But while Twitter officially bans hateful content, it doesn't do a very good job of policing that content in practice. Twitter hosts accounts like the American Nazi Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. And if you search for any racial or ethnic slur in Twitter's search engine, you'll find numerous attacks on people based on their race or ethnicity.

Google is following in Apple's footsteps here. Apple has long had more restrictive app store policies, and it originally rejected the Gab app for allowing pornographic content to be posted on the service—despite the fact that hardcore pornography is readily available on Twitter. In a second rejection, Apple faulted the app for containing content that was "defamatory or mean-spirited"—Apple's version of the hate speech rule.

Google, by contrast, originally approved Gab's Android app, only to remove it from the app store on Thursday.

Update (8/18, 2:10p ET): This story has been updated to incorporate Google's statement about the Gab decision. In full disclosure, the author's brother works at Google.

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https://www.cnet.com/news/squarespac...bsites-either/

Squarespace won’t host racist websites, either

The website service decides to drop a “group of sites," giving them 48 hours' notice.

There's no space for racists on Squarespace.

The company lets people build websites with easy-to-use templates and provides domains for groups, including those like the National Policy Institute, a think tank where white nationalist Richard Spencer is president and director.

Other hateful websites hosted on Squarespace included Identity Evropa and Radix Journal, which called for ethnic cleansing in a series of white supremacist essays. A petition calling for Squarespace to stop hosting these hateful websites reached 58,241 signatures by Thursday morning.

On Wednesday, Squarespace said it gave certain website owners 48 hours' notice that they would be kicked off its platform.

"In light of recent events, we have made the decision to remove a group of sites from our platform," a Squarespace spokesman said in an email.

Across the internet, tech companies have been stomping down on hate groups, including Spotify removing "white power" music from its service, and Apple Pay and PayPal cutting off websites linked to white supremacists. Before Saturday's Charlottesville rally started, Airbnb had kicked out white supremacists planning to stay at homes through its service.

Squarespace's decision comes after months of activists asking it to remove hate-filled websites. In March, Squarespace told a political science professor that "censoring sites like these may cause more harm than good in the long run."

Update: @Squarespace will not enforce terms of service on hate sites that "others find offensive." ToS were clear; hate groups get a pass. pic.twitter.com/kBThfb2nkE
— Joseph Brown (@Joseph_M_Brown) March 13, 2017

The group of websites that Squarespace plans to take down directly violates their terms of service, which states:

Don't advocate bigotry or hatred against any person or group based on their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual preference, age or disability.

iHate: CNET looks at how intolerance is taking over the internet.

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...list-websites/

Dreamhost, which hosts at least two white nationalist websites, Forza Nuova USA and NorthwestFront.org, said that it will continue to serve them.

Brett Dunst, a company spokesman, e-mailed Ars:

Our longstanding policy, one that has been in place since we began in 1997, has been that we will host any website as long as its content is legal in the United States of America... We will take action when approached by law enforcement to remove websites that are operating unlawfully, but we do not otherwise impose restrictions on customer content. As stalwart supporters of the Constitution's First Amendment, we believe that hosting providers should not be in the business of dictating acceptable content among its users. We are a resource for publishers of all backgrounds, not a clearinghouse for thoughts and opinions (however distasteful some of them may be.)

Michael Goldstein, a spokesman for Tucows, which hosts radixjournal.com—a website also run by white nationalist leader Richard Spencer—told Ars that the company has "wrestled internally" over what to do in recent days.

On Tuesday, the company put out a statement saying that extending domain privacy services to Daily Stormer violated the company's terms of service.

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http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=60076

Keegan Hankes, analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center's intelligence project, said his group has been trying for more than a year to get Facebook and PayPal to shut down these accounts. Even now, he said, the two companies are taking action only in the most extreme cases.

"They have policies against violence, racism, harassment," said Hankes, whose center monitors hate groups and extremism. "The problem is that there has been no enforcement."

.......tech companies have tools to identify and ban people with extremist views.

That's thanks to the troves of data they store on people and to their ability to easily switch off access to users. Airbnb users can link to social media profiles, and the company said it used its existing background checks and "input from the community" to identify users who didn't align with its standards.

Christopher Cantwell, a self-described white nationalist who has been labeled an extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, said he was banned from Facebook, Instagram and PayPal because the companies are trying to silence him for his views.

"Everybody is going through extraordinary lengths to make sure we are not heard," Cantwell told The Associated Press .

Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin said in an email to the AP that these private companies are "de facto monopolies and oligopolies" and should be regulated as "critical infrastructure."

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/17/tech...ech/index.html

Discord, a Skype and chat service popular with the alt-right, said this week it was shutting down accounts associated with the Charlottesville events. "We will continue to take action against white supremacy, Nazi ideology, and all forms of hate," the company said in a statement.

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The National Alliance, the sponsor of this radio program, has lost its credit card processor and its online store software provider — making it temporarily impossible to sell books and CDs or take donations online — in just the last week alone. So the Jewish power structure’s lies and hate have very real consequences.

http://nationalvanguard.org/2017/08/...plague-part-2/

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Dreamhost, which hosts at least two white nationalist websites, Forza Nuova USA and NorthwestFront.org, said that it will continue to serve them.

Don't know much about the first one, but the second is Rabbi Harold Covington's site. Is Dreamhost really that altruistic, or is it simply understood Covington is an "asset" to the Enemy?

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So, all those "libertarian" types who always spewed about corporate "rights" and how they have the "right" to censor people, how's that working out now?

Oh, wait, most of the "libertarian" types are allied to the Bolshevists.

Anti-White = censorship not allowed

Violent anti-Christian (e.g., ISIS) = censorship not allowed

Pornographic or even pederast = censorship not allowed

Pro-White, even without so-called "hate speech" = censorship REQUIRED

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http://nationalvanguard.org/2017/08/...plague-part-2/

by Kevin Alfred Strom

Why didn't he just slither away after the pedophile conviction? *




* and before anyone says the Federal regime "set up" Strom, tell us, why didn't they "set up" his boss, Dr. Pierce, instead, who was 20 times more effective than Strom?