Social network Gab.com, where the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue shooter allegedly posted anti-Semitic messages, has gone offline after web hosting company GoDaddy Operating Co. LLC and other tech companies withdrew their services.
The moves highlight a trend of domain name companies and other service providers dropping websites that host content linked to terrorist attacks or other episodes of violence. GoDaddy last year suspended the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site, after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
GoDaddy had given Gab.com 24 hours to move its web domain. Gab.com violated GoDaddy’s terms of service due to “numerous instances of content” that ...
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