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What on earth are you talking about? Epik is not a 'neo-nazi' website (whatever you think a 'neo-nazi' is), it's a domain registrar. So please spare us your oh

What on earth are you talking about? Epik is not a 'neo-nazi' website (whatever you think a 'neo-nazi' is), it's a domain registrar. So please spare us your oh so righteous indignation.

techrat 5y ago
Their business model is to specifically cater towards neo nazis. https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-found-a-web-host-savior https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-fou... https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11/problem-epik-proportions https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11/problem-epik-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company) > Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]
- bogwog 5y ago
  I've never heard of the controversy behind Epik before this, and looking at their website doesn't give any indication whatsoever that they're politically aligned in any particular direction. I almost transferred some domains to this registrar a while back, but man did I dodge a bullet. If this was leaked for political reasons, the person who did it should have known that thousands of innocent people would be affected. I wonder how many bystanders are going to lose their jobs or be cancelled because they just happened to come across epik.com when shopping around for a domain registrar? If you're the type of person who has strong political opinions and you happen to be a recruiter at a company, wouldn't you be tempted to do a quick CTRL+F through this dump for the names on the resumes you're screening? No one will know, and even if you know not everyone on that list is a nazi, it's better to be safe than sorry right? Branded for life and informally blacklisted just for buying a domain name. That sucks.
  - dimwitMS 5y ago
    >Branded for life and informally blacklisted just for buying a domain name. Only for the "bad guys"™
  - anigbrowl 5y ago
    As someone with quite strong political opinions on this topic I can assure you that disliking Rob Monster and many of the people he does business with doesn't automatically extend to all customers of Epik.
- sneedus 5y ago
  cant wait to get bricked over the head by some thug for using the wrong registrar
RIMR 5y ago
Epik literally runs neo-nazi websites. They court them when they get booted from other platforms. There's a german saying that goes "There are 10 people at the table with a Nazi. There are 11 Nazis at the table". If you do business with Epik, a service owned and operated by Rob Monster, who is also a virulent Gab user and proud Neo Nazi and Antisemite, then you earn some guilt by association. And nobody chooses Epik for the price or the service. They choose Epik because their website would be terminated from most other mainstream providers for violating rules against violence and hate speech.
user-the-name 5y ago
It is a domain registrar that makes a point of specifically, with full knowledge, and proudly hosting neo-nazi sites. They are not neutral in this. They are specifically creating a service for neo-nazis and the far right.
nmjohn 5y ago
If there is one domain registrar that nearly all neo-nazi websites use because no one else will do business with them, and the owner of said registrar also is a self-proclaimed neo-nazi - it seems pretty reasonable to claim epik primarily exists to further neo-nazi causes.

What on earth are you talking about? Epik is not a 'neo-nazi' website (whatever you think a 'neo-nazi' is), it's a domain registrar. So please spare us your oh so righteous indignation.

techrat 5y ago

Their business model is to specifically cater towards neo nazis. https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-found-a-web-host-savior https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-fou... https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11/problem-epik-proportions https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11/problem-epik-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company) > Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]

bogwog 5y ago
I've never heard of the controversy behind Epik before this, and looking at their website doesn't give any indication whatsoever that they're politically aligned in any particular direction. I almost transferred some domains to this registrar a while back, but man did I dodge a bullet. If this was leaked for political reasons, the person who did it should have known that thousands of innocent people would be affected. I wonder how many bystanders are going to lose their jobs or be cancelled because they just happened to come across epik.com when shopping around for a domain registrar? If you're the type of person who has strong political opinions and you happen to be a recruiter at a company, wouldn't you be tempted to do a quick CTRL+F through this dump for the names on the resumes you're screening? No one will know, and even if you know not everyone on that list is a nazi, it's better to be safe than sorry right? Branded for life and informally blacklisted just for buying a domain name. That sucks.
- dimwitMS 5y ago
  >Branded for life and informally blacklisted just for buying a domain name. Only for the "bad guys"™
- anigbrowl 5y ago
  As someone with quite strong political opinions on this topic I can assure you that disliking Rob Monster and many of the people he does business with doesn't automatically extend to all customers of Epik.
sneedus 5y ago
cant wait to get bricked over the head by some thug for using the wrong registrar

RIMR 5y ago

Epik literally runs neo-nazi websites. They court them when they get booted from other platforms. There's a german saying that goes "There are 10 people at the table with a Nazi. There are 11 Nazis at the table". If you do business with Epik, a service owned and operated by Rob Monster, who is also a virulent Gab user and proud Neo Nazi and Antisemite, then you earn some guilt by association. And nobody chooses Epik for the price or the service. They choose Epik because their website would be terminated from most other mainstream providers for violating rules against violence and hate speech.

user-the-name 5y ago

It is a domain registrar that makes a point of specifically, with full knowledge, and proudly hosting neo-nazi sites. They are not neutral in this. They are specifically creating a service for neo-nazis and the far right.

nmjohn 5y ago

If there is one domain registrar that nearly all neo-nazi websites use because no one else will do business with them, and the owner of said registrar also is a self-proclaimed neo-nazi - it seems pretty reasonable to claim epik primarily exists to further neo-nazi causes.