GoDaddy Severs Ties With Daily Stormer After Charlottesville Article<br />The headline to an article posted on Sunday at The Daily Stormer called Ms. Heyer “fat” and “childless.”<br />Ben Butler, the director of GoDaddy’s digital crimes unit, said in a statement<br />that the company generally did not take action that would constitute censorship.<br />GoDaddy Inc., the web hosting company, severed ties with The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi<br />and white supremacy website, after the site posted an article mocking Heather D. Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed when a man drove into a crowd during a rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday.<br />“Given The Daily Stormer’s latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this<br />type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service,” he said.<br />Dan C. Race, a GoDaddy spokesman, said in an email on Monday that his company had given the site 24 hours to find another domain provider.<br />“In instances where a site goes beyond the mere exercise of these freedoms, however,<br />and crosses over to promoting, encouraging, or otherwise engaging in violence against any person, we will take action,” he said.<br />The company had been asked in a report in July in The Daily Beast why it did not take action against the site,<br />even after Daily Stormer had published an article promising to “track down” the relatives of CNN staffers.<br />“While we detest the sentiment of such sites, we support a free and open internet and, similar to the principles of free speech,<br />that sometimes means allowing such tasteless, ignorant content,” he said.
