Google says it will ban neo-Nazi site after domain name switch

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSyJ8yEHQorC8La6931Jnue1s_SBViKCMOOZsaeBYkIeiQXmvdhC_wzRddbFO3J3DXXl3o3c6aTvb9jJQOsttKsTNqiP-wUhMmHQjXtiowXzc5syCbAx8U5CCjNOn6k3tBAHZIdGhVKk/s1600/googlee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1600" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSyJ8yEHQorC8La6931Jnue1s_SBViKCMOOZsaeBYkIeiQXmvdhC_wzRddbFO3J3DXXl3o3c6aTvb9jJQOsttKsTNqiP-wUhMmHQjXtiowXzc5syCbAx8U5CCjNOn6k3tBAHZIdGhVKk/s400/googlee.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">Just hours after </span><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16142384/daily-stormer-site-go-daddy-hosting-providers-hackers-anonymous" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; widows: 1;" target="_top">being dropped by GoDaddy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">, prominent white nationalist publication</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">The Daily Stormer </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">attempted to find a home at Google.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;"> </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests-godaddy-idUSKCN1AU0CV" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; widows: 1;" target="_top">As of press time</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">, the site’s registration info pointed to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;"> </span><a href="http://domains.google.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; widows: 1;" target="_top">domains.google.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">, indicating the web giant had taken over services as registrar.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; widows: 1;">Shortly after the switch was noticed, Google announced plans to drop the site. “We are cancelling Daily Stormer’s registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service,” the company said in a statement.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; widows: 1;">It’s not clear when Google itself became aware of the shifted registration. <a href="https://domains.google.com/registrar#t=t&chp=t" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">Google’s domain-management system</a> is available to anyone with a Gmail account, and it’s likely the registration was shifted automatically after the relevant information was entered. Previous registration data indicates <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Daily Stormer</em> founder Andrew Anglin is a Gmail user.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 28.8px;">It’s still unclear which policy in the Terms of Service was violated. Unlike GoDaddy,</span><a href="https://payments.google.com/payments/apis-secure/u/0/get_legal_document?ldo=16267419166080200835&ldt=domainstos&ldr=ZZ&ldl=und" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-weight: 700; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">the Google Domains’ Terms of Service</a> d<span style="line-height: 28.8px;">oes not currently include any provisions forbidding users from making violent threats. </span><a href="https://payments.google.com/payments/apis-secure/u/0/get_legal_document?ldo=16267419166080200835&ldt=contactprivacytos&ldr=ZZ&ldl=und" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-weight: 700; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">Google’s contact privacy agreement</a><span style="line-height: 28.8px;"> does include provisions against using Who IS privacy settings to “to conceal involvement with activities that are... bigoted based on racial, ethnic... or political grounds.” However, the current registration does not seem to invoke any of those privacy provisions, and it’s unclear if the language would apply.</span></div></div>

Business News Google says it will ban neo-Nazi site after domain name switch

Just hours after  being dropped by GoDaddy , prominent white nationalist publication   The Daily Stormer  attempted to find a home at Google...

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