Daily Stormer.
According to The Center of Investigative Reporting, a neo-Nazi site is still allowed to operate on GoDaddy, using its Domains by Proxy services.
GoDaddy is not hosting the content of The Daily Stormer, that utilizes Cloudflare; the article states that GoDaddy asserted that it wouldn’t host it on its platform.
The Center of Investigative Reporting is quoting a recent article in Propublica, noting that The Daily Stormer has become a popular repository of hate speech and racism on the web.
In that article, Arleen Hess, senior manager of GoDaddy’s digital crimes unit stated the following:
“There is certainly content that, while we respect freedom of speech, we don’t want to be associated with it.”
Jonathan Vick, associate director for investigative technology and cyberhate response at the Anti-Defamation League, asked Domains by Proxy last year to publicize the contact information of The Daily Stormer publisher.
Ben Butler, director of GoDaddy’s digital crimes unit, told The Center of Investigative Reporting that The Daily Stormer has never crossed the GoDaddy threshold to justify a termination of service.
Keegan Hankes, an intelligence analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said tech companies need to play a more hands-on role in policing what’s acceptable for their users.
“If you’re going to say that you don’t want hate on your platform and you don’t stand for these things, it’s a ‘put your money where your mouth is’ situation.”
For the full article, titled “Despite denial, GoDaddy works with neo-Nazi site through subsidiary,” click here.
