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Kablooie

(18,641 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:49 PM Aug 2017

Daily Stormer thrown off the .ru domain for promoting Nazi ideology.

(Google translation from the Russian news site kommersant.ru)

08/17/2017, 14:11

Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications), deprived the site of American neo-Nazis The Daily Stormer domain in Russia
Roskomnadzor blocked the site of American neo-Nazis The Daily Stormer in the domain zone (.ru). This is reported on the agency's website .

"Russian legislation has established an extremely tough regime to counter any manifestations of extremism on the Internet. The Daily Stormer website promotes neo-Nazi ideology, raises racial, national and other types of social strife, "the report said.

The office addressed to Ru-center with the corresponding request. The Registrar ceased the delegation of the domain name on the basis of clause 5.7 (rules for registering domain names in the .ru and .rf domains).

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3386016

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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. republican Comrade Casino* whines that they aren't being nice to his nice friends
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:51 PM
Aug 2017

* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

VMA131Marine

(4,149 posts)
3. Well that was inevitable....
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:52 PM
Aug 2017

the Russians lost millions to Hitler's armies in WWII, more than all the other countries combined probably. They hate Nazis, and not just the Illinois kind.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
4. Yeah, Putin's klepto-ethno bullshit notwithstanding
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:52 PM
Aug 2017

you would think Nazis wouldn't be terribly popular, in Russia.

TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts)
5. Gee, losing 30+ Million in WWII and the decade that followed it really made Russia hate on Nazis.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:54 PM
Aug 2017

I didn't see that one coming.


Some accounts put the total WWII Russian death toll at 40 Million.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
7. I had previously read (before Charlottesville) where several European sources, including...
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:58 PM
Aug 2017

...Russian sources wondered why the United States tolerated the Nazi symbols, the Nazi references, the entire Nazi personae. They felt that the Nazis had done such horrid damage to the world and committed such great atrocities against humanity, that they should be indelibly stained forever and never be allowed to rise again, in any shape, form or fashion.

I could not agree more.

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)
12. The dailystormer.ru webpage goes to: 'site can't be reached because the DNS address can't be found'
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 05:23 PM
Aug 2017

Oops. Given that Russians have more reasons to hate Nazis than most others, them finding a cyber-home there seemed odd.

cloudflare is still providing security for them, of course.

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