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Re:GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal n... by s73ver_ on Friday August 18, 2017 @07:06PM (#15050444)
I completely disagree. I especially disagree that it's anywhere close to lynching, which is a terrible, terrible analogy for you to choose given that the subject at hand is Nazis and White Supremacists.

I disagree that choosing not to do business with the Daily Stormer is unethical. It's no worse than any other reason to not choose to do business with someone, of which GoDaddy does chose not to do business with several other entities.

I disagree that GoDaddy not doing business with the Daily Stormer threatened anyone's well being or life. If anything, not amplifying their signal has likely saved lives, because hopefully fewer people will know that the site exists, and will then become radicalized because of it.

Re:GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal n... by Mikhail_Edoshin on Saturday August 19, 2017 @03:09AM (#15052118)
Have you read that piece?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-t...

It's about a woman with that tweet about white and AIDS and how the mob response to it ruined her life. The punishment turned out to be completely out of proportion with the crime. Punishments carried out by mobs tend to. Imagine that she were tried by a court for her tweet, given a defender and all the due process; do you think the court would order her to be punished to that extent? So yes, this is very close to lynching; it's social lynching done by well-educated progressive people who think they're humane and are doing the right thing. Projected to its logical conclusion it's meant to deprive the victims of their lives.

Actually, much more people became aware of Daily Stormer; I, for one, I've never heard of them before. I wish I could see what it was about, I prefer to trust my own judgement in such matters, but I cannot. All I can see is a small excerpt in a search engine: "We here at the Daily Stormer are opposed to violence. We seek revolution through the education of the masses. When the information is available to the people, ..." Well, that's all; the information is not available. But it's ironic, isn't it? I'd say this credo is an opposite of that of their antifa opponents who claim it's good to use violence against Nazis and boldly declare that at the pages of New Your Times and whatnot.