As related at Fast Company
Sartorially-championed white nationalist Richard Spencer just got punched in the face–this time, in the figurative sense.
The web provider GoDaddy has taken down the alt-right figurehead’s web domain, the appropriately named altright.com.
“It is our determination that altright.com crossed the line and encouraged and promoted violence in a direct and threatening manner,” a GoDaddy spokesperson told BuzzFeed.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 04 2018, @04:41PM (1 child)
Ideology isn't protected, but political affiliation is. Once again - Spencer is a douche, but his nazi ass has political grounding.
(Score: 4, Informative) by meustrus on Friday May 04 2018, @05:02PM
When it comes to private businesses, the law that generally applies is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [ourdocuments.gov], which does not protect political affiliation. Specifically, it requires that government and private businesses not discriminate based on "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" (at its most restrictive; religion and sex are excluded from some protections).
The closest that this law comes to protecting political affiliation is in TITLE VIII, which outlines the collection of voter registration data and stipulates that:
IANAL, and this is not a very detailed read, so I could be wrong. Individual states also have stronger protections sometimes, but as far as I know I haven't lived in one that protects political affiliation. If you know of part of the law that protects political affiliation, please show us all what part that is.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?