Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @02:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @02:44PM (#559856)

    The aspects of democracy in the US have been subverted quite heavily, but I guess your fervant patriotism has blinded you. Nine eleven was the excuse that let them hammer the nails into our coffins.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 28 2017, @12:12AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 28 2017, @12:12AM (#559969) Journal

    The aspects of democracy in the US have been subverted quite heavily, but I guess your fervant patriotism has blinded you.

    That's a bizarre argument to make. Democracy is in decline (which apparently is a bad thing, right?). So we need to take away freedom of speech to...?

    Not seeing how this is supposed to reverse the decline of democracy. But I can see plenty of ways it can destroy democracy altogether.