GoDaddy bans white supremacist site after offensive Virginia rally post
Aug 14, 2017, 8:25 AM | Updated: 12:10 pm
(AP Photo)
(AP Photo)
PHOENIX — Scottsdale internet domain giant GoDaddy has dumped a neo-Nazi website that posted an insulting story about the woman who was killed over the weekend at a white supremacist rally in Virginia.
After prompting from women’s rights advocate Amy Siskind, GoDaddy tweeted Sunday night that the Daily Stormer had been informed it was no longer welcome and had 24 hours to move.
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 (@GoDaddy) August 14, 2017
The supremacist site, which heavily promoted the rally, later posted a story that it had been hacked but said it would meet GoDaddy’s deadline. It then registered with Google, which canceled the transaction.
“Given their latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service,” GoDaddy spokesman Dan Race said in an emailed statement.
Google also said the site violated its terms of service.
Heather Heyer, 32, a paralegal, died and nearly two dozen were injured at Saturday’s rally in Charlottesville, Virginia when a young man drove a muscle car into a crowd.
A suspect, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio, was arrested. He was charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count related to leaving the scene.
The rally had already erupted into violence, as groups of skinheads, Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists clashed with antidiscrimination protesters even before the deadly attack.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
