August 18, 2017 5:00 AM
LOS ANGELES • Silicon Valley significantly escalated its war on white supremacy this week, choking off the ability of hate groups to raise money online, removing them from Internet search engines and preventing some sites from registering at all.

Companies are waging a broad attack against white supremacist groups, cutting off their ability to raise money, post content or register their sites online. These moves are not unprecedented, but this muscle flexing raises a lot of questions — not just about free speech, but also about due process and who controls the Internet.

Following last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, many tech companies have been thrust into a debate over free speech and social responsibility.

Google and other companies based in Silicon Valley “blacklist conservatives”, according to a former Google employee who was fired after sending a company-wide memo criticizing the internet giant.

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Silicon Valley significantly escalated its war on white supremacy this week, choking off the ability of hate groups to raise money online, removing them from Internet search engines, and preventing some sites from registering at all.

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Progressives used to pressure U.S. corporations to cut back on outsourcing and on the tactic of building their products abroad to take advantage of inexpensive foreign workers.

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Silicon Valley significantly escalated its war on white supremacy this week, choking off the ability of hate groups to raise money online, removing them from Internet search engines, and preventing some sites from registering at all.
The new moves go beyond censoring individual stories or posts....

A central neo-Nazi website's publisher said that he was essentially "banned from the internet" after his website was repeatedly taken down for mocking and planning disruptions for the funeral of the victim of a deadly car attack at a white nationalist rally this weekend, according to The Associated Press. Access to the Daily Stormer website which takes its name from Der Stürmer, the Nazi propaganda newspaper, has been sporadic since Monday when Google canceled their domain name registration, essentially eliminating their IP address for internet users after the site had already moved its registration from GoDaddy on Sunday night. GoDaddy tweeted on Sunday that they were giving The Daily...