GoDaddy pulled white nationalist Richard Spencer’s ‘alt-right’ site offline

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Domain registrar GoDaddy has taken down white nationalist Richard Spencer’s site Altright.com, saying the site “crossed the line” in promoting violence. BuzzFeed reported the news yesterday, noting that Spencer had also been kicked off Facebook a few weeks earlier. Altright.com is currently offline, and GoDaddy told BuzzFeed that Spencer had 48 hours to transfer to a new registrar.

When a site “crosses over to promoting, encouraging, or otherwise engaging in specific acts of violence against any person, we will take action,” a GoDaddy spokesperson said. “It is our determination that altright.com crossed the line and encouraged and promoted violence in a direct and threatening manner.” Spencer told BuzzFeed that he was “working on solving…

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