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GoDaddy to Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer: Find an Alt Web Host

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @10:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the Going-to-ground dept.

aristarchus writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by unauthorized on Friday May 04 2018, @05:04PM (1 child)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Friday May 04 2018, @05:04PM (#675737)

    but I'm pretty sure this is a business decision for GoDaddy, and not a political one. You see, if there is any form of boycott and GoDaddy looses a few thousand customers (or more) they lose quite a bit of money.

    Ah, so it's a bussiness decision to avoid political boycotts? What if that some pro-gay site was "inciting faggotry" and decided to censor them? I'm sure you'll be all up in arms about it. But if it's someone you dislike it, then it's okay to do it? If so, then you sir, are an opportunistic scoundrel with no principles of their own.

    I for one will not shed any tears for Richard Spenser, but GoDaddy has yet again proven themselves as an organization that will not protect their consumers. Were social norms to suddenly turn against any group of people you feel entitled to protection, then GD will be the first to stab them right in the back, just as they are willing to do so to Spenser. The tools of oppression you choose to legitimize today will invariably be used to oppress you tomorrow.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @05:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @05:18PM (#675746)

    I'm not getting "all up in arms" about this or any actions a company like GoDaddy takes. The free market can, should and will sort these things out.

    As far as "inciting faggorty" is concerned, that is the prime directive of the gay agenda.