Vice News: The Far Right Has Found A Web Host Savior
"When Radio Wehrwolf, a popular podcast network among militant neo-Nazis, was shut down by its web host, the site was effectively homeless. Mere weeks later the podcast was back, and a simple WHOIS search reveals it’s registered by a little-known domain registrar called Epik. 'As a registrar, Epik plays an important role in the online infrastructure necessary to keep far right extremists online, including those that advocate violence,' Joshua Fisher-Birch, of the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project, told Motherboard in an email. Fisher-Birch said he wasn’t surprised to learn Radio Wehrwolf turned to Epik or that the web registrar has ongoing connections to far-right content. 'This is potentially dangerous because it enables the further dissemination of extremist rhetoric and propaganda, including the promotion of violence, even after a site has been dropped by other companies,' Fisher-Birch said. 'While Epik portrays this as a noble exercise in anti-censorship, they’re making a business decision to continue to amplify voices calling for violence.'"
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