Former Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard Don Black showed the world how the internet could galvanize hate beginning in 1995.
Now the website he founded that year, Stormfront — called the "first major hate site on the Internet" by the SPLC — is offline.
Domain provider Web.com has put a hold on the site after the Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law wrote a letter to the company's CEO, pointing out that Stormfront violated Web.com's policy stating "users may not ... utilize the services in a manner deemed, in company’s sole discretion, to display bigotry, racism, discrimination, or hatred in any manner whatsoever" [PDF]. Read more...
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