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That's an important observation. If people were free to read their website, it wouldn't be easy to forget how repugnant they are. People are starting to forget
by aiyodev 9y ago
That's an important observation. If people were free to read their website, it wouldn't be easy to forget how repugnant they are. People are starting to forget the past because it's being censored. And when we forget the past, we repeat it.
- heartbreak 9y agoStormfront helped organize and promote an event in Charlottesville, Virginia that saw a man they radicalized use his car as a weapon injuring 35 people and killing Heather Heyer. Let’s play the video of that, juxtaposed with their editor’s comments supporting it, on loop at their newly parked domain. That accomplishes the goal of demonstrating how repugnant their ideas are without a company having to give them a platform to radicalize more people.
- patrickg_zill 9y agoFields, the driver, is Jewish I thought? Where are you going to stop... will you turn off all the Berkeley Antifa domains also (whatever they are), since they directly radicalized Eric Clanton and his 7 assaults with a deadly weapon in 1 day, four of which he is currently charged with? Or is 4 counts of assault with a deadly weapon not enough, and the bar should be set at say, 10? Or is only murder, justification? What if Fields pleads to criminal negligence causing death, a lesser charge - will you give stormfront back their domain?
- Buge 9y agoIs there any evidence that he is Jewish?
- shitlord 9y agoAnders Breivik was a member of Stormfront. It's a breeding ground for domestic terrorists.
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoI believe Sam Hyde was as well. Like you said, these domestic terrorists are a direct result of Stormfront existing.
- exBarrelSpoiler 9y agoSam Hyde is currently facing an International Court of Justice war crimes tribunal on the charges of being a Tired Unfunny-Ass Meme. No one should underrate the danger of this washed up pathetic villain.
- Frondo 9y agoOf course, there's a small but non-zero percentage of the population that endorses, supports, and embraces those views. Showing the driver acting out those views isn't going to drive off those supporters. I have an Israeli friend who's now thinking of relocating back to Israel--her synagogue gets regular threats right now (it didn't used to), and someone hung a banner reading "JEWS DID 9/11" on a freeway overpass near from her house recently (she lives in a heavily Jewish neighborhood, the placement was intentional). Good on them for shutting down Stormfront.
- olliej 9y agoThat’s not relevant to my point - these are awful people, but they should be free to state their beliefs. They shouldn’t be free to act on them. More importantly: it’s much better for everyone if we know who they are. I’d certainly feel better if I knew who was a direct risk for my wife. Honestly I wish there was a site that just enumerates Nazis in America. But at the same time I’d be worried about the converse: a site the tracks “antifa”. There are some awful people who would fall under the strict “member of antifa gang” style semantic, but the Nazis are labeling all non-Nazis as antifa. Given there’s at the very least a white supremicist as president I’d be concerned about giving carte Blanche privilege to label people like this. Everything is awful. I fucking hate those asshole “trump is better than Hilary because I don’t research anything other than some nd bite” people that put us in this position
- heartbreak 9y agoThey should be free to state their beliefs, but NetworkSolutuons isn’t beholden to the First Amendment, so why should they have to put up with it?
- featherverse 9y agoI think you're confusing Stormfront with The Daily Stormer, these are two different groups.
- heartbreak 9y agoI’m not going to sweat that difference.
- featherverse 9y agoThat's the exact same way that racists treat minorities. You should probably care about the details when you're damning people.