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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by scottLobster on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:38PM (#15011255)
Google is a private entity, they could quite legally de-list all neo-nazi sites with zero consequences. Before Google newspapers were the primary source of people's information, was there a massive outcry that the New York Times and Washington Post didn't run neo-nazi stories?
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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by jacquesm on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:08PM (#15011649)
Google news has done an excellent job of promoting breitbart.com.
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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by yahna on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:09PM (#15011672)
The washington post and new york times don't have a monopoly.

I'd also be fine if they dropped them from search. I'm not fine with them abusing their status as a domain registrar.

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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by dragonwriter on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:42PM (#15012085)
Google doesn't have a monopoly as a registrar, either.
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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by scottLobster on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:21PM (#15012486)
How is this abuse? Is access to web-hosting a right now? Going back to my newspaper example, you might as well say possession of a printing press is a right.

If I violate the terms of my lease I can be evicted. If you violate your registrar's terms of service your website can be shut down. This is not a new concept, not is it somehow special because it's "on the internet".

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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by ardaozkal on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:51PM (#15024099)
Daily Stormer reportedly violated ToS, though when I checked ToS yesterday, it was pretty clear that they didn't outright ban such content, but yeah, they aren't abusing it, they're enforcing the rules Daily Stormer agreed to follow but failed to.
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