EFF criticizes tech companies for exiling neo-Nazi website

The EFF isn’t the only non profit that believes the acts against white supremacist groups could harm others in the future. Facebook has had campaigns against radical Islam and blocked those kinds of sites, and people have often questioned, well, are they using their corporate power legitimately? “In the Civil Rights era, cases that formed the basis of today’s protections of freedom of speech, the NAACP’s voice was the one attacked”, EFF wrote.

Following last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, many tech companies have been thrust into a debate over free speech and social responsibility.

The legal action claimed that the article’s defamatory statements were meant to spur violence against Obeidallah, citing other alleged examples of Daily Stormer readers who did just that, including Dylann Roof, who read the website’s content before killing the black churchgoers in SC.

EFF’s statement came after CloudFlare’s chief executive Matthew Prince described his seemingly rash decision to offload Daily Stormer. According to Reuters, Cloudflare has a reputation for defending and providing services to controversial websites.

The Daily Stormer had denigrated 32-year-old Heather Heyer who died while protesting against a far-right rally in Charlottesville. The registration had moved there after GoDaddy tweeted late Sunday night that it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider, also because the site had violated the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company’s terms of service. Later in the day, though, the site was no longer accessible at that address.

GoDaddy, which used to host the domain for neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, dropped the site from its servers earlier this week.

“The Cloudflare betrayal adds another layer of super complexity”.

“We’ll get it taken care of”, Auernheimer said.

“Reuters reports that Anglin was not immediately available for comment”.

York says “most of the world’s governments and almost all Silicon Valley companies” decided that terrorists “don’t get speech rights”. “‘What about this site?” “One of the greatest strengths of the United States is a belief that speech, particularly political speech, is sacred”.

“We’re the plumbers of the internet”.

Three Twitter accounts associated with the site that had previously been active were suddenly listed as “suspended” on Wednesday.

In contrast, on the Daily Stormer page and other VK groups, users have continued merrily posting racist slurs and threats. “But together, we are more powerful”. They later also banned the publication from YouTube.

The Daily Stormer takes its name from the Nazi-era newspaper Der Stürmer.

VK also hosts other groups that organised the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. And that’s not so dissimilar from what some progressives have been saying as well about these companies.

That puts companies in the unenviable position of being accused of censorship if they don’t allow hate speech on their platforms or of supporting that speech if they make sure it remains online.