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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by betafive on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:36PM (#15011242)
They can still say whatever they like, and, y'know what? Their fascist readers can even still get to it using their IP address-- at least, they could if they weren't hiding it behind CloudFlare.

This isn't censorship. As far as I know, no one has the "right" to an entry in the public DNS, nor is any registrar required to do business with Nazis. Registrars have the right to free association and speech too.

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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by Clubber on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:42PM (#15011304)
Then no one has the right to a free and public internet. The experiment failed.
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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by yflu on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:12PM (#15012391)
Can they not simply self-host?

But besides that, my understanding is that though the internet is free, the various entities on the internet are equally free to refuse service. After all, if they were otherwise obligated, that would imply X's freedom can override Y's freedom, which also contradicts the nebulous ideal of freedom.

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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by sever5 on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:22PM (#15011851)
They'll transfer the name elsewhere, it's a petty waste of time.
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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by betafive on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:30PM (#15011936)
No, it's not. There are a finite number of .com registrars-- how many of them do you suppose want to be associated with Literal Nazis?

Even if it only serves to waste their time, hassling fascists is still a public service.

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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by sever5 on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:54PM (#15012218)
There are many privacy/free-speech oriented registrars and hosts. I hate being in the position to defend these types so often from short-sighted moralizers, but it absolutely won't work.
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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by dfps on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:17PM (#15013521)
What are these, please?
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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by nthcolumn on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:46PM (#15012705)
Giving Nazis hell is never a waste of time.
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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by Caveman_Coder on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:20PM (#15013034)
Giving racists, on either the left or the right, is never a waste of time...
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Re:Daily Stormer Moves from GoDaddy to Google by nthcolumn on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:55AM (#15019358)
I'm not sure what left or right has to do with racism but have an uptick for giving racists hell - but it was kind of implied by the 'Nazis' yo.
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