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The "Daily Stormer", a neo-Nazi website that has been having trouble staying online since Charlottesville, has once again been shutdown.
According to The Verge:
The neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer briefly returned to the web today, using a new URL and a string of new hosts to dodge the bans that took it off the internet last week. The site reappeared this morning at the address Punished-stormer.com, apparently using Dreamhost as both a host and DNS provider.
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Shortly after the new site became public, Anonymous groups began a denial-of-service attack against it, targeting the Dreamhost DNS infrastructure that makes the site accessible to the rest of the web. The result was nearly two hours of intermittent downtime for the countless sites using Dreamhost's DNS infrastructure.
In WWII, things like this were called "collateral damage", where innocent casualties were necessary in order to get at the Nazis themselves. But is this sort of action legitimate on the internet? Especially by non-governmental organizations?
Also reported at https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/08/dreamhost-ddos-attack/
Related story: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/21/16180614/charlottesville-daily-stormer-alt-right-internet-domain
(Score: 2) by Weasley on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:19PM (3 children)
Both extremes seem to be attacking the moderates as much as the other side.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Tangaroa on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:40PM (2 children)
That's intentional. It forces the moderates to take a side. Charlottesville may have been the first time that the people Antifa attacked were actually Nazis and KKK. They have been beating up on normal conservatives, moderates, liberals, and independent journalists ever since they first organized to beat up the attendees of Trump campaign rallies. If you see these people operate online, they target liberals first. The Nazis similarly police their potential allies by demanding adherence and blind obedience, and attacking anyone who doesn't give in. Any group that says "a pox on both their houses" gets attacked by both.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:59PM
Bingo.
One thing to look for: the backers of mob rule always eat their young.
See:
Hitler and the SA
Stalin and the old Bolsheviki
Mao and the Cultural Revolution
Democrats and the SDS.
Antifa beware.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday August 28 2017, @10:04AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves