White supremacist chatroom Stormfront taken offline
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Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I wouldn't have put it past the FBI to have secretly set up version 1.0.
In the profound word, catch all term of the Orange Donald. Sad. 
There are commercially driven attacks on net nutrality. But a web host deciding, when it's finacially inexpedient to dump a site, isn't that. Nazis are bad PR. Now people are looking.
UnderAnOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Can't they just get hosted in Russia or some other country they'll take the money and not give a shit?
teqniq
DisMembered
I expect the site will have quickly reestablished itself on the tor network as has the Daily Stormer
Rutita1 I imagine a lot of it's members would already be familiar with the 'darknet' so would have little trouble accessing it. It will make it initially more difficult for 'newbies' both to the far right scene and the net in general but not for very long.
Obediah Marsh
Active Member
I expect these hate sites will eventually be sanctioned the same way as the pirate sites. ISPs will refuse to link to them even if they're online.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
IIRC, c. 2002-2003, possibly earlier
UnderAnOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
So that will stop nobody then.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
You may well be right, though most fash are so dumb they'd do the feds job for them, unwittingly
Obediah Marsh
Active Member
This so-called 'darknet' will probably turn into what the internet was 20 years ago. Back then normal people read newspapers and odd people (including Nazis) read the internet. Now normal people read the internet and odd people read the darknet.
bemused
Well-Known Member
I don't think it is a free speech issue, it is the market in action. These businesses don't want to take the shit that comes with taking cash of deeply unpleasant people.
Lurdan
old wave
I guess it's a function of the inaccurate reporting about this but Stormfront hasn't been "taken down" in the sense some people seem to be assuming. The domain 'stormfront.org' has been suspended by Network Solutions it's registrar. So if you try to go to that address it doesn't resolve.
However the server on which the board is located hasn't been affected. It's still exactly where it was and - as of a couple of minutes ago when I looked - the board is functioning. Or would be if more than a tiny minority of it's users could access it. It's not at the address where people expect to find it, and - deeply sad this - you can't get to the server by typing in the IP number because the site has Cloudflare protection to protect it from DDOS attacks, and this also prevents that kind of direct access.
There is a workaround for computer users by modifying their HOSTS file but that's probably a bit technical for the majority of the userbase. For smartphone or tablet users it also requires rooting their device. Although instructions have been posted online it's clear that few have either found them or applied them, and there are only a handful of new posts.
On the latest edition of his radio show founder and cunt in charge Don Black confirmed that Network Solutions are preventing him from transferring the domain name to another registrar. He stated his lawyers would be taking steps to try to unlock it, and that he had been offered outside legal assistance. Although he had other domain names already registered his initial feeling was to try and retrieve 'stormfront.org'.
If that's unsuccessful there's nothing to stop the board adopting another domain name and being back open for business. It's not as if there's any shortage of less choosy registrars as the reemergence of the Daily Stormer using an Albanian domain address demonstrates.
However the server on which the board is located hasn't been affected. It's still exactly where it was and - as of a couple of minutes ago when I looked - the board is functioning. Or would be if more than a tiny minority of it's users could access it. It's not at the address where people expect to find it, and - deeply sad this - you can't get to the server by typing in the IP number because the site has Cloudflare protection to protect it from DDOS attacks, and this also prevents that kind of direct access.
There is a workaround for computer users by modifying their HOSTS file but that's probably a bit technical for the majority of the userbase. For smartphone or tablet users it also requires rooting their device. Although instructions have been posted online it's clear that few have either found them or applied them, and there are only a handful of new posts.
On the latest edition of his radio show founder and cunt in charge Don Black confirmed that Network Solutions are preventing him from transferring the domain name to another registrar. He stated his lawyers would be taking steps to try to unlock it, and that he had been offered outside legal assistance. Although he had other domain names already registered his initial feeling was to try and retrieve 'stormfront.org'.
If that's unsuccessful there's nothing to stop the board adopting another domain name and being back open for business. It's not as if there's any shortage of less choosy registrars as the reemergence of the Daily Stormer using an Albanian domain address demonstrates.
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
Mate of mine works for Cloudflare - they were responsible for traffic maintenance for Daily Stormer and got loads of hate comments and tweets from people thinking they were supporting them. Cloudflare replied that they just supported traffic maintenance between sites and do not in anyway endorse any views held by sites. Daily Stormer apparently waded in and thanked Cloudlfare for their support and agreeing with their views. So Cloudflare responded and binned their support of them.
Then Cloudflare got loads of hate comments and tweets saying they were against freedom of speech on the internet. Can't win.
Then Cloudflare got loads of hate comments and tweets saying they were against freedom of speech on the internet. Can't win.
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skyscraper101
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I always wonder if this store regretted its choice of name
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bemused
Well-Known Member
Cloudflare demonstrates why these companies try to avoid moral judgements of these sites. They withdrew service from the Dialy Stomer but haven't done the same on this site - they'll end up at the end of campaigns for all sorts of sites.
bemused
Well-Known Member
I didn't read his statement did it say 'cloudflare have all the good customers we're left with the shit?'Cloudflare isn't the only game in town. The Daily Stormer are currently using rival service BitMitigate, who are actively promoting their commitment to free speech
Every problem is an opportunity.
editor
hiraethified
What else do you expect from a bunch of pointless cunts like Prison Planet?
Fez909
toilet expert
That's so weird. I walked past this place in Durham yesterday and then saw this thread pop up so came to post about it. It's a national chain?!I always wonder if this store regretted its choice of name
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8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Watching him pwn himself is a mildly amusing diversion?
skyscraper101
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They seem to have quite a few of them dotted around the UK. They must get some weird emails.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
We actually have the very thread just waiting for you:
https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/stormfront.288544/
Happens all the time. Registrars' terms of service grant some pretty wide powers to take down domains, mostly used for alleged breaches of IP.
Lurdan
old wave
And the Daily Stormer has been booted off it's Albanian domain.
Albanian domain registrar kicks Neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer offline - ZDnet
If Anglin is downhearted he's not showing it
"Is this the end of Rico ?" I wouldn't bet any money on it myself.
Albanian domain registrar kicks Neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer offline - ZDnet
Unlike previous bootings this time the Stormer seems to have been able to set up a redirect. First this sent anyone going to their .al address to Andrew Anglin's account at Austin Texas based right-wing social media network GAB, and now it serves a page with instructions on how to access the site via TOR and a link to that GAB account
If Anglin is downhearted he's not showing it
"Is this the end of Rico ?" I wouldn't bet any money on it myself.