> Yea? Or must mean those “alt right hosts”.

No, I mean hosts like Nearly Free Speech which has been operating since 2002. I've seen this one posted many times on HN and it seems great.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

I understand what you mean though. Since they are usually smaller hosts, they aren't used by big name companies and eventually acquire a reputation for hosting only offensive content.

> one day around the election GoDaddy made a decision to cancel them

Huh. How could they just do that? It eventually went back up right?

Do you have more examples?

> we give equal protections to anyone not breaking the law?

What do you mean?

>> one day around the election GoDaddy made a decision to cancel them

> Huh. How could they just do that? It eventually went back up right?

> Do you have more examples?

The first big deplatforming case was probably Cloudflare pulling The Daily Stormer. This is what Cloudflare CEO said:

> "Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn't be allowed on the Internet. No one should have that power."

Seems like even he agrees that they shouldn't be allowed to do that.

Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.

He kicked it off of cloudflare, not the internet

They were successfully censored from the internet for quite some time. I believe they were only available through the onion. They must've burned through like two dozens of domains at this point.

Changing info at the registrar would have fixed this, they would probably have only lasted a few minutes w/o DDOS but it's not like cloudflare singlehandedly banished them from the internet. I mean, they sort of did due to the lack of protection, but it's not like cloudflare has the keys to the entire internet; just their ddos service.

Sure, I'm not saying that they are the only people responsible. The thing is that everyone has the same mindset to the point where it seems almost like a coordinated effort. And Cloudflare's CEO admitted that the purpose behind their actions was to kick them off the internet.

> Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.

I agree. We should make the government use its monopoly on force to take freedoms away from people we disagree with. How dare a company decide with whom it does business and under what terms?

Domain name registrars aren't normal companies. They're more like a government institution. The government can't refuse to recognize the fact I own my house just because they don't like my political opinions. Why should it be any different with internet domain names?

It's not about agreement or disagreement, it's about monopolies.

I am fine if the government takes away the freedom of corporations to grow arbitrarily large.

I am also fine with the government making corporations choose between the ability to grow arbitrarily large and the ability to kick off users without due process.

There's no need to take any freedoms away from normal-size companies.

There are already laws in place that do just that.