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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by Clubber on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:41PM (#15012066)
Anyone can start and distribute a newspaper. Not everyone can broadcast on a spectrum (there are technical reasons to now allow that). If you think of a website as a newspaper, and there are similarities, then this in effect is a private entity preventing someone from publishing and distributing a newspaper.
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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by cmiles74 on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:18PM (#15012449)
In the same way that anyone can start a newspaper, anyone can also start a website. In the same way that someone needs to sell the newspaper vital supplies like paper and ink, so to do websites need to have network providers and web servers.

If you think that a pro-Nazi newspaper would have no problem setting up shop, you are sorely mistaken. They will have the same problems as this website and people of conscience will refuse to have them as clients. This website, as would those newspapers, will need to find suppliers sympathetic to their views.

That few people are sympathetic to their views, in my opinion, is the market at work.

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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by willstrafach on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:58PM (#15012825)
Anyone can also set up their own DNS server for people to use.
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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by Clubber on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:39PM (#15013214)
Not top level.
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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by willstrafach on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:41PM (#15013238)
Users would be free to add the DNS server to their systems.
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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by BenjiWiebe on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:25PM (#15013942)
That's what I've been thinking. Maybe Namecoin (.bit) should be taken up by all "Free speech extremists", regardless of which side they are advocating. By Free speech extremists I mean people who agree that Nazi sites should have a registrar, regardless whether you agree with the Nazis or not.
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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer by Clubber on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:02PM (#15015025)
It's troubling when advocating for universal political free speech is considered extreme.
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