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TECHNOLOGY Thursday 17 augusT 2017

Neo-Nazi site’s publisher says he’s got no home on internet

By MICHAEL KUNZEL- ment called some of the
MAN, Associated Press content on Cloudfare’s
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — network “repugnant.” but
A neo-Nazi website’s pub- said withdrawing its ser-
lisher said Wednesday that vices would not remove
he has “effectively been the website from the inter-
completely banned from net, just make it slower and
the internet” after mocking more vulnerable to attack.
the victim of a deadly car Shortly thereafter, the site
attack at a white national- that takes its name from
ist rally in Virginia. Der Stürmer, a newspaper
“Clearly, the powers that that published Nazi pro-
be believe that they have paganda, disappeared
the ability to simply kick me again.
off the internet,” Andrew Anglin said he was strug-
Anglin, who has published gling to find a domain reg-
the site from an undisclosed istry service whose terms of
location, complained to service allow for the con-
The Associated Press in an tent he produces.
e-mail. “I have been kicked off of
Access to The Daily Stormer 4 of them so far, and many
had been sporadic since of them contain explicit ref-
Monday, when Google erences to “hate speech”
canceled its domain name in their ToS. Others would
registration, making its IP be incapable of manag- In this June 25, 2015, file photo, Muslim comedian Dean Obeidallah speaks at a news conference
in New York. Obeidallah, a Muslim-American radio host, is accusing Andrew Anglin, the publisher
address nearly impossible ing the DDoS attacks,” of a notorious neo-Nazi website, of defaming him by falsely labeling him the “mastermind” of a
for internet users to locate. Anglin wrote, expressing deadly concert bombing in England, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, Aug. 16,
The site had moved its reg- frustration with ICANN, the 2017.
istration to Google after international nonprofit that Associated Press
GoDaddy tweeted late authorizes domain-name Daily Stormer embedded the First Amendment. He the mother of white nation-
Sunday night that it had registrars. fabricated tweets in a June recognizes the importance alist Richard Spencer.
given The Daily Stormer 24 “If they don’t have a single 1 story to make them seem of freedom of speech and Gersh is represented by at-
hours to move its domain to registrar willing to host me, like they had been sent political discourse, regard- torneys from the Alabama-
another provider. Google then they have effectively from Obeidallah’s Twitter less of viewpoint. But the based Southern Poverty
then yanked the address as banned me from register- account, tricking readers First Amendment does not Law Center, which tracks
well, citing a violation of its ing a domain.” into believing he took re- license defamation,” his hate groups.
terms of service. Anglin had been keeping sponsibility for the May 22 suit says. In July, the law center’s
The site briefly reappeared up his inflammatory state- terrorist attack at an Ariana Asked by the AP for com- lawyers claimed Anglin was
Wednesday with a Russian ments through the Russian Grande concert in Man- ment on the lawsuit, Anglin “actively concealing his
domain name and registra- domain, mocking Heather chester. The death threats gave a two-word response: whereabouts” and hadn’t
tion and a dubious top sto- Heyer, the woman who was came quickly thereafter. “Wew lads,” referring to an been served with Gersh’s
ry, making the unsupported killed when a man remem- “It was literally jaw-drop- internet meme expressing suit. They said they looked
claim that President Don- bered for praising Adolph ping,” Obeidallah, a co- sarcastic fake-surprise and for him at four addresses
ald Trump had called Rus- Hitler rammed his car into a median and Daily Beast dismissiveness. in Franklin County, Ohio,
sian President Vladimir Putin crowd of demonstrators in columnist, told the AP. “The The Daily Stormer also was where he apparently has
to get the site restored. Charlottesville on Saturday. death threats were some- sued in April by a Montana connections.
The story presented no evi- The original story called her, thing I’ve never seen be- woman for orchestrat- Obeidallah’s lawsuit was
dence that Trump or Putin among many other things, fore in my life.” ing an anti-Semitic trolling filed in Columbus, Ohio,
had any involvement in the “the definition of useless- The suit claims that the ar- campaign against her fam- since Anglin is an Ohio na-
move and Trump has no ness.” ticle’s defamatory state- ily. tive who uses a post office
known links to the site. But Anglin had other fresh ments were intended to Tanya Gersh’s suit claims box in Worthington, Ohio.
Until mid-day, the site con- trouble as well: A Muslim- incite violence against anonymous internet trolls A lawyer for Obeidal-
tinued to receive perfor- American radio host filed a Obeidallah, citing other bombarded Gersh’s family lah said The Daily Stormer
mance and security ser- federal lawsuit on Wednes- alleged examples of Daily with hateful and threaten- hasn’t responded to their
vices from San Francisco- day accusing him of defa- Stormer readers who did ing messages after Anglin request to remove the
based Cloudflare Inc., mation by falsely labeling just that, including Dylann published their personal in- June 1 article about him.
protecting it from denial of him the “mastermind” of a Roof, who read the site be- formation in a post accus- Obeidallah is represented
service attacks. deadly concert bombing in fore killing black churchgo- ing her and other Jewish by Muslim Advocates, a
Cloudflare said it is coop- England. ers in South Carolina. residents of Whitefish, Mon- national legal and educa-
erating with law enforce- SiriusXM Radio show host “Mr. Obeidallah is an ardent tana, of engaging in an tional organization based
ment. A company state- Dean Obeidallah said The believer in and defender of “extortion racket” against in Oakland, California.q