Current Events > I think it's incredibly wrong that Stormfront was taken down

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What the hell happened to respecting freedom of speech? We laugh at Germany for outlawing the nazi salute, but celebrate a whole ideology, however vile, being silenced?

It's wrong. In America we can hold whatever beliefs we want.
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We're they shut down by the gubmint, or by their service provider?
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Whose alt are you?

eston posted...

We're they shut down by the gubmint, or by their service provider?

Service provider.
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This explains the influx of certain posters.

And this is just the free market they love at work. They can always try to find a service provider that excepts their beliefs.
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There are so many people who fundamentally misunderstand how freedom of speech works
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If they were shut down by their provider, it's totally fair

If they were shut down by the government, it isn't
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it's dangerous to attack them though. if you just ignore them, they have no power. but when you attack them, you give them strength to fight.

Can't they just host a website themselves instead of using a provider?
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

There are so many people who fundamentally misunderstand how freedom of speech works

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sktgamer_13dude posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

There are so many people who fundamentally misunderstand how freedom of speech works

Like most people including the government
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emblem boy posted...

Can't they just host a website themselves instead of using a provider?

They can, but it'll be a bit more difficult and expensive than having someone else host their site for them.
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my only concern about it taken down, is the turds contained in it will move to another forum and contaminating it.
if only we can take it down along with the posters's access to internet...
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

There are so many people who fundamentally misunderstand how freedom of speech works

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Oh good, now they're going to spread out across the internet.
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I don't get this "they're going to spread out all over the internet" crap. Are you guys under the impression that these people only use one website? Do you only use one website? They're already spread out
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

There are so many people who fundamentally misunderstand how freedom of speech works

If you're insinuating that I don't understand it, I'm not saying what they did is illegal. I'm saying ordinary people don't respect freedom of speech. `
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eston posted...

I don't get this "they're going to spread out all over the internet" crap. Are you guys under the impression that these people only use one website? Do you only use one website? They're already spread out

I am chained to CE. I will only be free if someone destroys it.
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the stormfront thing is weird to me because the site's been around for what, 15 years? and they're just shutting it down now?

im sure everyone on this board knew what stormfront was for years since it's always been at the top of the alexa rankings and shit like that. anyone remotely familiar with internet communities had heard of the site before.

so when i see all these companies in 2017 decrying the site it comes across to me as just overt virtue signalling + CYA measures. it's not like white supremacy was just invented this year lol
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eston posted...

I don't get this "they're going to spread out all over the internet" crap. Are you guys under the impression that these people only use one website? Do you only use one website? They're already spread out

You clearly don't understand how fucking massive that site was.
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