After Charlottesville, tech providers have taken a more aggressive stance against white nationalists, with Discord, GoFundMe, and others actively denying service to neo-Nazi groups and users. It remains to be seen how long the site will survive at the new domain, and it is possible that subsequent pressure will force the site to vacate the domain in the days to come. Addresses stormer5v52vjsw66jmds7ndeecudq444woadhzr2plxlaayexnh6eqd.onion stormer-daily.rw dailystormer. The site is the most censored site in existence. Whois records show only that the new site is being served through CloudFlare, a content delivery network that has drawn criticism for providing services to the site in the past. Daily Stormer is the biggest news publication focused on normal reactions to Jewish behavior, health, fitness, politics, and watching hoaxes. It’s unclear who is hosting the new version of the site. As of press time, Daily Stormer’s VK page had only 88 followers. “What has happened is that we’ve been given a massive amount of publicity by the media,” founder Andrew Anglin wrote in a post explaining the shift, “and we need to work on capitalizing on that to get our ideas further into the public sphere.”ĭriven off Facebook, the site has also set up a community at VK, a similar network based on Russia, although they have struggled to attract a similar following. Read more Daily Stormer breaking news, in-depth reporting and. This may not be a genie Cloudflare can stuff back into the bottle.“We’ve been given a massive amount of publicity by the media.” The latest and best Daily Stormer news and articles from the award-winning team at. In the future, the public will suspect that if an infrastructure provides service to a site, it's because they don't actually find it objectionable.
Cloudflare has helped to establish an industry-wide norm that some content is too offensive to be hosted by any mainstream technology company. In a company blog post that appeared later on Wednesday, Prince argued that the Internet needed a better system for determining which content should be taken down-one that gives publishers a right to due process and doesn't put power over those decisions in the hands of a few CEOs like Prince.īut, of course, the decision is likely to set a precedent even if Prince hopes it's a one-time occurrence. "The right answer is for us to be consistently content neutral." "It's important that what we did today not set a precedent," Prince added. In the same e-mail, Prince argued that it is "dangerous" for that kind of power to be concentrated in any one person's hands. Prince wrote that he "woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet. It was a decision I could make because I'm the CEO of a major Internet infrastructure company." Advertisement
"Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision." "My rationale for making this decision was simple: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and I'd had enough," Prince wrote. The action seemed to fly in the face of everything Cloudflare claimed to believe as recently as May.Īnd in an internal company e-mail obtained by Gizmodo, Prince acknowledged that the decision was exactly as arbitrary as it seemed. So a lot of people were surprised on Wednesday when the company abruptly changed its tune and canceled the account of the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer. Even when he was criticized for providing service to alleged terrorist groups in 2013, CEO Matthew Prince stood firm, insisting that "a website is speech.
Until recently, Cloudflare prided itself on its unwavering commitment to free speech.