Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
by BrainInAJar on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:33PM
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No it shouldn't.
If I make a nazi movie nobody has to show it in their theatre. If I write a nazi book no publisher has to pick it up and print it.
If you want a nazi domain name system then go ahead and create it. Run a DNS server, advertise it as "this is the DNS for nazis" and you can have www.holocaustdenial.nazi all you want.
This is the problem. If nobody wants to host my speech, fine: I can set up a server in my own bedroom if need be. But if nobody accepts my domain, it's not quite so easy to set up my own registrar.
Private companies arbitrarily censoring domain names is a can of worms that shouldn't be opened. Registration must be held up to a higher standard, like an utility.