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Too Much Power Lies in Tech Companies’ Hands

Written by Teunis Felter

The Daily Stormer is finally off the internet. Earlier this week, the hate-spewing white supremacist site lost its domain name registration when it was kicked off  GoDaddy and then Google for violating terms of its contracts.  After the site’s vicious post attacking Heather Heyer, the protester who was killed in Charlottesville, Virginia, the domain registrars decided they’d had enough. The site relaunched on a Russian server, but swiftly vanished from that host too.  Tech companies ranging from Airbnb to Reddit and Facebook have been purging other perceived supremacists from the ranks of their users.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-17/too-much-power-lies-in-tech-companies-hands

About the author

Teunis Felter

Teunis Felter has over 20 years experience as an author, editor, and scientist. When not exploring outside, he enjoys reading history, researching genealogy, and civilly discussing politics.