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posted by martyb on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:20PM   Printer-friendly

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.

[note: url modified]

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


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 26 2017, @11:34PM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday August 26 2017, @11:34PM (#559636) Homepage

    Er...4chan receives Cloudflare protection.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by jmorris on Saturday August 26 2017, @11:59PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday August 26 2017, @11:59PM (#559643)

    Yea, and so did dailystormer and stormfront. They don't exist anymore except as outlaws out on the dark web and TOR is trying like mad to find a way to drive off their new #1 traffic and attention generating .onion site. If TOR actually shuts down to prevent it being used for "hate" it will be so full of win Kek himself will die laughing.

    http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion [dstormer6em3i4km.onion] is what remains, a shadow of the insane asylum it was, no comment system and doubt whether TOR can handle the strain of trying to restore that part. And thousands more sites will soon join it. Since these sites will basically only be using TOR for a substitute name service, wonder if this development will drive .onion support into mainstream browsers since the security lockdown part isn't needed for the more popular parts of the dark web? Which of course will "light" the dark web, creating interesting times.

    That is the future of the Internet. Weep for the future. We had a choice, we chose poorly. We tech types were the guardians of the open Internet. We failed. We have picked intolerance, hate and a closed Internet because some .com snowflakes got sadz over a troll's antics.

    We have been trolled and we have lost.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @12:29AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @12:29AM (#559648)
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @10:34AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @10:34AM (#559780)

      Eh, history [encyclopediadramatica.rs] shows that that scenario to be inaccurate.