NR Daily: Journalists Overreach in Their Quest to Purge ‘Hate’ from the Web

Last week, multiple major Internet corporations essentially cooperated to kick a hate site, The Daily Stormer, off the Internet. Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Google, and various other companies withdrew their services, and now one of the Internet's most odious sites lives mainly on the "dark web," largely inaccessible to the casual user. This was an ominous development for free speech — and not because there is anything at all valuable about The Daily Stormer's message. It's an evil site. Its message is vile ...

August 21 2017

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