Google Cancels Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer's Registration
August 14 2017 - 03:18PM
Dow Jones News
By Jack Nicas
Google on Monday said it canceled the website-hosting
registration for the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, hours after
GoDaddy Inc. told the site it needed to find a new host.
Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., said it canceled the Daily
Stormer's registration because the site violated its policies
against inciting violence. A spokesman declined to specify what
content on the site violated the policy.
The Daily Stormer for years has posted hateful content
criticizing Jewish and nonwhite people. On Sunday, the site
ridiculed a woman who was killed protesting a white nationalist
rally over the weekend.
Late Sunday evening, GoDaddy said on Twitter it had given the
Daily Stormer 24 hours to find a new web host for violating the
company's terms of service.
On Monday, the Daily Stormer registered its site with Google via
an automated process shortly before 11 a.m. ET. About three hours
later, Google said it had canceled the registration, and that it
may take up to 48 hours to take effect. As of 3:20 p.m. ET, the
site was still live.
Daily Stormer didn't immediately respond to a request for
comment.
The moves by Google and GoDaddy to crack down on the far-right
website come in the wake of violent clashes in Virginia between
white nationalists and counter-protesters, and they could signal
increasing hurdles to maintaining a presence online.
Write to Jack Nicas at jack.nicas@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 14, 2017 16:03 ET (20:03 GMT)
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