White supremacist website The daily
Stormer has been shut down by GoDaddy
and their channel has been removed from
YouTube. Welcome back to What's Trending,
I'm Shira Lazar. Be sure to LIKE this
video and SUBSCRIBE for more. The Daily
Stormer, which took its name from a Nazi
tabloid magazine, featured racist memes
and other internet content. The site has
been described as "Drudge Report for Nazi
sympathizers and anti-Semites." Sounds like
a blast.
This year the Southern Poverty Law
Center called The Daily stormer the Top
Hate Site in America. The site was
founded by white supremacist Andrew
Anglin, who conceived The Daily Stormer as
neo-Nazi propaganda. He said, "Using the
daily news is a means to propagandize
people. To get them to look at the world
in a certain way." Or news can perhaps be
actual unbiased news.
Just saying. And in the wake of the tragic
events of Charlottesville,
many protesters moved to have the hate
site shut down. Amy Siskind tweeted,
".@GoDaddy you host The Daily Stormer - they
posted this on their site." GoDaddy then
responded, "We informed The Daily stormer
that they have 24 hours to move the
domain to another provider, as they have
violated our terms of service." GoDaddy
CEO Blake Irving told CNBC that they try
to protect free speech, but The Daily
Stormer has crossed a serious line. "When
the line gets crossed and that speech
starts to incite violence, then we have a
we have a responsibility to take that
down." So what did The Daily Stormer do
when they found out that they were
losing their hosting? They acted like
they were hacked. After getting their
digital eviction notice, The Daily
Stormer made their site appear like it
was being taken down by Anonymous, the
secretive hacker group. The fake hacked
website included such self-aggrandizing
lies as, "it took a united force of elite
hackers from around the world to breach
the systems and the firewall." But the
real Anonymous says it wasn't them and
adds this, "We find [the] claim that it took
a 'united force of elite hackers' to hack a
CMS run my amateurs incredibly amusing."
So Anonymous if it was that easy why didn't
you do something earlier?
Now other tech companies are following
GoDaddy's lead and pulling the plug on
The Daily Stormer. Daily Stormer's YouTube
channel has been removed and their
Twitter accounts have been deactivated 
for violating Community Guidelines...
finally! Wow... it really took that long
didn't it? And now that the biggest
mouthpieces for hate has been shut down
the internet is rejoicing and I am too.
@DocFang tweets, "Thanks @YouTube for
standing up to white supremacist at
Daily Stormer. You are on the right side
of history and I will remain loyal
customer." As for the creeps behind The Daily
Stormer, well they've fled the country.
Patrick S. Tomlinson tweets, "The Nazi site
Daily Stormer, formerly of GoDaddy, kicked
off of Google, is now being hosted in
Russia, in case it needed to be more
obvious." So what's your take on the
shutdown of Daily Stormer and who's next?
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