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 jmorris on Sunday August 27 2017, @01:40PM (2 children)
Now go read a history book and figure out WHY the Nazis won that election and achieve enlightenment. That election was basically a Kobayashi Maru test in a country going to Hell.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @07:25PM
Nazis achieved enlightenment? Are you sure that's what you want to say there?
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday August 28 2017, @12:38AM
They had the best street thugs? They made left wing promises about the coal miners getting jobs? They came up with a bogey man/group to blame all the problems on? They were authoritarians who cherry picked from both the right and the left to get elected?