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They can still say whatever they like, and, y'know what? Their fascist readers can even still get to it using their IP address-- at least, they could if they we
by betafive 9y ago
They can still say whatever they like, and, y'know what? Their fascist readers can even still get to it using their IP address-- at least, they could if they weren't hiding it behind CloudFlare.
This isn't censorship. As far as I know, no one has the "right" to an entry in the public DNS, nor is any registrar required to do business with Nazis. Registrars have the right to free association and speech too.
- Clubber 9y agoThen no one has the right to a free and public internet. The experiment failed.
- yflu 9y agoCan they not simply self-host? But besides that, my understanding is that though the internet is free, the various entities on the internet are equally free to refuse service. After all, if they were otherwise obligated, that would imply X's freedom can override Y's freedom, which also contradicts the nebulous ideal of freedom.
- angry-hacker 9y agoSelf host what..? Become a dns registrar?
- sever5 9y agoThey'll transfer the name elsewhere, it's a petty waste of time.
- betafive 9y agoNo, it's not. There are a finite number of .com registrars-- how many of them do you suppose want to be associated with Literal Nazis? Even if it only serves to waste their time, hassling fascists is still a public service.
- sever5 9y agoThere are many privacy/free-speech oriented registrars and hosts. I hate being in the position to defend these types so often from short-sighted moralizers, but it absolutely won't work.
- nthcolumn 9y agoGiving Nazis hell is never a waste of time.
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoGiving racists, on either the left or the right, is never a waste of time...
- nthcolumn 9y agoI'm not sure what left or right has to do with racism but have an uptick for giving racists hell - but it was kind of implied by the 'Nazis' yo.
- dfps 9y agoWhat are these, please?