# Stormfront is shut down

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfront-is-shut-down/795017>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 29, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfront-is-shut-down/795017 "2017-08-29T12:32:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfront-is-shut-down/795017/1 "2017-08-29T12:32:20Z")

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Sorry if I missed another thread on this and totally rolling a dice as to where it goes, but [Stormfront was shut down](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/29/stormfront-neo-nazi-hate-site-murder-internet-pulled-offline-web-com-civil-rights-action). I’ll put it here because I don’t have “great debate” position.

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfront-is-shut-down/795017/2 "2017-08-29T12:41:23Z")

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Private companies decided they weren’t interested in hosting white supremacists any more. Sounds like the free market at work, taking into account the possibility of losing the business of others. People using their right to speak out, to say “you shouldn’t host these assholes”, and other people finally deciding “okay, we’re not going to host these assholes any more”.

They have the freedom to be assholes and spread their assholery, and others have the freedom to say “not on my network you won’t!”.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfront-is-shut-down/795017/3 "2017-08-29T12:46:08Z")

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Hold on, [I had something for this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaG2Acg8n60)…

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfront-is-shut-down/795017/4 "2017-08-29T13:37:30Z")

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Bye, Fraulicia!

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stormfront-is-shut-down/795017/5 "2017-08-29T16:03:19Z")

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> [@tnetennba](#):
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> Sorry if I missed another thread on this and totally rolling a dice as to where it goes, but [Stormfront was shut down](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/29/stormfront-neo-nazi-hate-site-murder-internet-pulled-offline-web-com-civil-rights-action).

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> Stormfront’s removal comes a week after a letter, informing Network Solution’s parent company [Web.com](http://Web.com) of the neo-nazi site’s infractions of the its usage policy, was sent by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organisation formed at the request of John F Kennedy in 1963.

Infractions of their usage policy. . . like maybe “don’t be a bunch of fucking nazis”?