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[Dalek]

Stormfront, the Internet's Oldest Neo-Nazi Site, Follows the Daily Stormer Down to Hell

The massive crackdown on the internet’s festering white supremacist contingent claimed another victory last night: Stormfront.

The neo-Nazi forum has a much longer and deadlier history than more recent sites like the Daily Stormer or The Right Stuff, with Holocaust denial posts from the site’s founder Don Black appearing on USENET newsgroups as early as 1985. Stormfront grew out of those pre-internet newsgroups—like alt.skinheads, alt.revisionism, alt.politics.nationalism.white—eventually becoming a standalone site whose members have been directly linked to almost 100 bias-related murders. Attempts at purpose-built white nationalist sites were made prior to Stormfront, but it was the first to gain traction. Before going dark, the long-running site drew close to half a million unique monthly visitors, according to Alexa data.

Black, a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, learned the skills to build Stormfront during his three years in federal prison, which he served for attempting a violent overthrow of Dominica, an island just north of Martinique. The New York Times reports that “Nazi and Confederate flags, dynamite and 30 high-powered rifles” were among the items found by authorities when he and nine other men were caught.

Currently, a Whois search shows that Stormfront.org’s domain provider—Network Solutions LLC, a company under Web.com—has placed a hold on the site. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the closure comes at the behest of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which drafted a letter to Web.com’s CEO pointing out that, after more than 20 years, Stormfront was in clear violation of his company’s acceptable use policies. Gizmodo has reached out to Web.com but has not yet received a comment.

 

[IrishNinja]

nothing but good news here, give these nazis no platform

also, "concerned" centerists: shut the fuck up

 

[UnemployedVillain]

I guess better late than never

 

[LiK]

About fucking time

 

[hydrophilic attack]

bye bitch

 

[HStallion]

.

 

[joe2187]

You missed one R/TheDonald

 

[Otakumegane]

So web domain holders are private companies?

 

[FunkyMunkey]

but wait! what about free speech? next is closing down other forums and porn sites and then social media and then cats and dogs falling from the sky /s

 

[Akuun]

Good news!

 

[Morrigan Stark]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1424072

 

[Muppet of a Man]

How much do you want to bet that these sites get rehosted on Russian servers/domains?

 

[Pandaman]

So web domain holders are private companies?

Be interesting if they tried for a .us since that's run on behalf of the department of commerce

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

David Duke am cry

 

[kmax]

Rest in Piss.

 

[HazySaiyan]

 

[Dr.Acula]

How much do you want to bet that these sites get rehosted on Russian servers/domains?

Daily Stormer tried to go over to Russia and got rejected.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/neo-nazi-daily-stormer-loses-its-russian-domain-too/

Russia is trying to use Nazis to destroy America, not themselves, they don't want Nazi stuff on .ru domains.

 

[Killer Queen]

How much do you want to bet that these sites get rehosted on Russian servers/domains?

Daily stormer tried
Got kicked off too.
Stormfront would follow.

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

Hopefully America Renaissance gets taken down soon too, problem is Jared Taylor positions himself as an intellectual and smarter than the usual racist rednecks. He even has black people who are legitimately a part of his group.

 

[StoOgE]

This is all great, but they'll just move to Reddit and Twitter who currently are doing nothing about them.

 

[SchrodingerC]

LOL

Eat shit, you Nazi fucks.

 

[Phrozenflame500]

It's ok I'm sure they'll find a loving home on Reddit somewhere

 

[Lovely Salsa]

Wait


His last name is Black

The fuck

 

[Killer Queen]

This is all great, but they'll just move to Reddit and Twitter who currently are doing nothing about them.

Hopefully there's a domino effect.

 

[Wimps]

Fuck nazis.

They'll continue doing their thing though.

 

[BatDan]

Wew, my cup of Nazi Tears is overflowing.

Get fucked Stormfront.

 

[Ryouji Gunblade]

I thought they got rid of certain KKK and or neo-nazi subreddits already, but maybe those were only the worst of the worst and it's a big list.

 

[Lunar15]

I love how David Black's son was being groomed as his successor, but he bailed after he went to college and learned about how the middle east was an extremely advanced society compared to northern Europeans and that the concept of a "white" race didn't exist until the modern era. Like, 2 years of actually learning about history turned this kid from the crown prince of white supremacy into a hillary voter.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

This is all great, but they'll just move to Reddit and Twitter who currently are doing nothing about them.

Too late they are already there.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

This is all great, but they'll just move to Reddit and Twitter who currently are doing nothing about them.

This shit is the mind blowing part. Twitter, reddit, and Facebook are literally complicit in fucking over this country. This is why you should never trust so-called silicon valley liberals (who are really Techno libertarians and only socially liberal out of political convenience and expediency). Liberals and progressives need to be seriously wary of "rich techy savior" types, as they mostly present a certain way to further enrich themselves.

 

[Westbahnhof]

Good stuff.
Pretty weird how it took 20 years, but what do they say?
The best time to close a nazi website is 20 years ago. The second best time is right now.

 

[moltonasty]

Good, fuck em.

You missed one R/TheDonald

Clicking this link was a mistake :/

 

[Nerdkiller]

Where next, Nazis? No matter where you go, you'll be hunted down.

 

[ModBot]

Dupe http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1424072&highlight=stormfront