Web hosting company GoDaddy has given a US neo-Nazi site 24 hours to find another provider after it disparaged a woman who died in protests in Virginia.<\/p>\n
The Daily Stormer published a piece denigrating Heather Heyer, who was killed on Saturday after a car rammed into a crowd protesting at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n
GoDaddy had faced calls to remove the white supremacist site as a result.<\/p>\n
The web host said the Daily Stormer had violated its terms of service.<\/p>\n
“We informed the Daily Stormer that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service,” GoDaddy said in a statement\u00a0on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Previously, some web users had called on GoDaddy to remove the site – including women’s rights campaigner Amy Siskind.<\/p>\n Violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, after white supremacists organised a controversial far-right march called “Unite the Right”.<\/p>\n Since the announcement, a blog post has appeared on the Daily Stormer, claiming the site has been hacked by Anonymous.<\/p>\n However, the main Twitter feed for Anonymous has said it has no confirmation that the hacker group is involved.<\/p>\n “It’s very unusual for a host to remove a website because they’ve got immunity in the US under the First Amendment,” said Niri Shan, a media and freedom of speech lawyer at Taylor Wessing.<\/p>\n “Social media sites and those hosting content are very alive to public pressure and perception,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n “Now you’ve got politicians saying they’ll intervene and legislate if they don’t take more actions on the content on their sites, so I think this is part of a bigger picture.”<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"