White Supremacist Website Daily Stormer Goes Offline
Credit to Author: Joseph Cox| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:35:56 +0000
After GoDaddy and then Google declined to hold the domain for white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, the site is currently offline.
The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which 32-year old Heather Heyer was killed, and their subsequent fallout have triggered a debate around the responsibility of tech companies hosting or providing services to extremist content.
Some visitors to the site are greeted with a typical blank error messages. Others see a message presumably from the site’s admins.
“We’re having an outage. It’ll be a minute,” a message posted on The Daily Stormer on around Tuesday morning reads. The message then directs visitors to use an internet chat room or the Daily Stormer Discord server.
Discord is a chat service particularly popular with gamers. On Monday, the company said it had shut down the altright.com’s server, and the link provided in the Daily Stormer message was invalid or had expired at the time of writing.
Online lookups for the site’s DNS records, which would have usually provided information on the site’s domain registrar, returned no results.