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Stormfront, the Internet's Oldest Neo-Nazi Site, Follows the Daily Stormer Down to Hell

mfront, the Internet's Oldest Neo-Nazi Site, Follows the Daily Stormer Down to Hell

The A.V. ClubDeadspinGizmodoJalopnikKotakuQuartzThe RootThe TakeoutThe OnionThe InventorySend us a Tip!ShopSubscribeThe Future Is HereWe may earn a commission from links on this pageSearchHomeLatestNewsReviewsScienceEartherio9AISpaceEspañolVideoStormfront, the Internet's Oldest Neo-Nazi Site, Follows the Daily Stormer Down to HellByAvery EllisPublishedAugust 28, 2017The massive crackdown on the internet’s festering white supremacist contingent claimed another victory last night: Stormfront. The M3 MacBook Airs are as Good as Ever, and That’s the Problem

CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishShare this VideoFacebookTwitterEmailRedditLinkview videoThe M3 MacBook Airs are as Good as Ever, and That’s the ProblemThe neo-Nazi forum has a much longer and deadlier history than more recent sites like the Daily Stormer or The Right Stuff, with Holocaust denial posts from the site’s founder Don Black appearing on USENET newsgroups as early as 1985. Stormfront grew out of those pre-internet newsgroups—like alt.skinheads, alt.revisionism, alt.politics.nationalism.white—eventually becoming a standalone site whose members have been directly linked to almost 100 bias-related murders. Attempts at purpose-built white nationalist sites were made prior to Stormfront, but it was the first to gain traction. Before going dark, the long-running site drew close to half a million unique monthly visitors, according to Alexa data.AdvertisementBlack, a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, learned the skills to build Stormfront during his three years in federal prison, which he served for attempting a violent overthrow of Dominica, an island just north of Martinique. The New York Times reports that “Nazi and Confederate flags, dynamite and 30 high-powered rifles” were among the items found by authorities when he and nine other men were caught.AdvertisementAdvertisementCurrently, a Whois search shows that Stormfront.org’s domain provider—Network Solutions LLC, a company under Web.com—has placed a hold on the site. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the closure comes at the behest of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which drafted a letter to Web.com’s CEO pointing out that, after more than 20 years, Stormfront was in clear violation of his company’s acceptable use policies. Gizmodo has reached out to Web.com but has not yet received a comment.Delving into the history of Stormfront’s creation is deeply instructive of the predicament we’re currently in. A Wired “Netizen” column from 1997 lists Stormfront.org as one of many sites trafficking in paranoid delusions and what we’ve come to begrudgingly call “fake news.” As writer Tom Dowe generously put it:The Net is opening up new terrain in our collective consciousness, between old-fashioned “news” and what used to be called the grapevine – rumor, gossip, word of mouth. AdvertisementAs Black’s own posts reveal, neo-Nazis sought to dismantle multiculturalism by inventing narratives back then too—only the immigrants they blamed for society’s problems came from elsewhere. The “troll-and-deny” tactics currently popular with far-right figures trying to distance themselves from outright Naziism were on display in the ‘90s as well, as a callout post from 1996 directed at (now) former National Alliance member Milton Kleim shows. Kleim later renounced white nationalism in several posts, one of which stated that [emphasis ours]:I came to a conclusion in early 1996 that there were inherent flaws in the philosophy advocated by the so-called “movement,” as well as glaring problems with the “leadership” of this “movement.” The caustic traits attributed to the Jews by the key leaders of the “movement” were actually reflections of their own personalities: self-aggrandizing, delusive, selfish, base personalities which didn’t actually ascribe to a genuine higher purpose.AdvertisementMore pressingly, the fight over whether tech companies owe their services to hate groups isn’t new either. Bart Alsbrook, the recently-resigned Oklahoma police chief believed to have neo-Nazi ties, was the subject of a 1996 Dallas Morning News story once he was identified as a poster known as “Bootboy.” In it, Alsbrook’s internet service provider, Internet America (which was bought by Rise Broadband in 2015), adopted the same hands-off stance many platforms continue to take today:“We’re not in the business of censoring what our customers post, it’s not possible with 25,000 to 30,000 customers, nor is it something we want to do,” Mr. Martin said. “If, however, there’s anything illegal about a site, we cooperate fully with the police and FBI.”AdvertisementThat 30,000 customers felt unmanageable makes the prospect of clamping down on networks with millions upon millions of users that much more daunting.But USENET posts from the late ‘90s reveal neo-Nazi outrage that American Online refused to carry the aforementioned alt.politics.nationalism.white newsgroup. “How is that possible? Who would have the power to do such a thing, I thought the net was unregulated!?” one user wrote in alt.skinheads, “Is it just my shitty university of California at santa Barbara going lefty again or is it some higher power?”AdvertisementIdeally, we could close this chapter of internet-enabled hatred for good, but in all likeliness Stormfront will do what the Daily Stormer has been doing for weeks now: hopping between domains, providers, and hosts; ping ponging between the dark net and the clear web. For now, however, Stormfront’s jettison serves as a strong symbolic victory.Start the discussionContinue reading

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Stormfront

Created by former Alabama Klan boss and long-time white supremacist Don Black in 1995, Stormfront was the first major hate site on the Internet. Claiming more than 300,000 registered members as of May 2015 (though far fewer remain active), the site has been a very popular online forum for white nationalists and other racial extremists.

Extremist Group Info:

SPLC Designated Hate Group

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1995

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West Palm Beach, FL

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White Nationalist

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Don Black

West Palm Beach, FL

But a series of reverses — the 2008 assertion by Black’s wife that she was not a racist, a similar declaration by his son in 2010, and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s exposure of the identity of many Stormfront funders and the fact its registered users have been behind almost 100 murders — have caused a series of problems for the Web forum. Today, Black struggles with a continuing decline in site visitors, chronic financial problems and his own health issues.

In Its Own Words

"Our mission is to provide information not available in the controlled news media and to build a community of White activists working for the survival of our people."

— From "Guidelines for Posting," Stormfont.org

"White Pride Worldwide"

— Stormfront.org motto

"Beating down a mud [a non-white person] when they try to poisen [sic] one of our own or when they try to seduce one of our girls may not be God inspired, but rather a righteous act of collective preservation."

— Preston Wiginton, Stormfront.org post, 2007

"The critically important concepts of pulling your own weight and not leeching off other parts of society are alien concepts to Blacks. They realize that on their own, they will never have very much so they happily take all the welfare and other hand outs they can get even if this makes them parasites. They don't have any qualms about stealing millions of jobs and promotions thanks to racial quotas — this is the last government-approved racial discrimination program, which has gone on for four decades."

— "Whiterights," 2008 post to Stormfront

"Pure n----- or mixed n-----, is that really matters [sic]?? N-----. Period."

— "war2war," 2008 post to Stormfront

Background

Don Black, a former Klan leader who served three years in prison for plotting to overthrow a Caribbean island government, was the first hate propagandist to fully appreciate the potential of the Internet. After learning to operate and program computers in prison, he emerged to set up Stormfront in March 1995, just a month before the Oklahoma City bombing. Being the first of its kind helped Stormfront win enormous publicity. Black and his site, run out of his Florida home, were written up in newspapers around the country and the world. He also frequently appeared on major network news shows like ABC's "Nightline," where, clad in suit and tie, he talked politely about allowing people access to information not filtered by the "media monopoly." Though he undoubtedly turned off many viewers, each major TV appearance led to a spike in visitors to Stormfront.

Stormfront has since grown into what may be the Western world's most popular forum for so called "white nationalists" to post articles, engage in discussions, and share news of upcoming racist events. One of the secrets to Stormfront's success is its focus on community building. Whereas typical hate sites function as one-way transfers of information — rather like a brochure that can be read but not responded to — Stormfront has always been organized as a message board. Members can post opinions, listen to others respond, then post more feedback for all to read. The potential for dialogues to develop was built in — and, therefore, so was the potential to develop a genuine white supremacist cyber-community.

Below the Stormfront motto, "White Pride World Wide," are links to racially charged news stories like "Mestizo Rapes White Woman in Elevator" and "Negro Man Stabs Elderly Woman, Shoots Detective, Negroes Screaming ‘Police Brutality." Members of Stormfront's various forums can also post comments to discussion threads with titles like "What do you want done with the Jews?", "Aryan Storm Rising" and "To Hate or Not to Hate." But one thing you won't usually find of late on Stormfront are racial slurs, which, though they sometimes get through, are banned in recent guidelines: "No profanity. Avoid racial epithets." New members are explicitly warned not to use such language, and also not to post violent threats or anything describing illegal activity. It's not that Stormfront is about moderation or rational discussion. The talk is all about the evils of African Americans, LGBT people, non-white immigrants, and, above all, Jews, who are blamed for most of what's wrong in the world. But Black clearly has modeled his site on some of the tactics used by David Duke, who famously urged his Klan followers to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms." As Black once told a reporter, "We don't use the ‘n-----, n-----' type of approaches."

The ideal of creating an online community was expanded upon in 2002, when Jamie Kelso joined Stormfront. He successfully began to push leading radical-right movement writers — men like Sam Dickson, a leader of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, and Willis Carto, publisher of the Holocaust-denying journal The Barnes Review — to start posting. That was just part of an effort to make the site more inclusive. Although some posts are censored on the site (several posts critical of the National Alliance — a major neo-Nazi group — were deleted after the group's founder, William Pierce, died, and an internal war of succession broke out), it generally has tried to maintain a relatively nonsectarian stance, making people from different sectors of the radical right feel welcome to join in. As Black once told a reporter for Newhouse News Service: "Anyone can work to promote our ideas without being a member of any organization. I used to be annoyed by people who didn't join my organization, but I see the advantage now."

Black and Kelso have taken care to avoid appearing dictatorial. One result is that the forum, within the bounds of the radical right, feels relatively democratic — a gathering of people with similar interests in what increasingly looks like a real community. Every member can choose a graphic to accompany their postings.

Little smiley faces and other signs abound (Nazi symbology was common until it was banned, along with slurs like "n-----," in the spring of 2008). It's not unusual to spot two members using an animation where the faces toast with mugs of beer. There is a list of birthdays of members on the main page. Birthday greetings are frequently exchanged, along with notes of consolation or encouragement. There are essay contests and $2,000 scholarships for white kids.

In the fall of 2008, a private “sustaining members” section was added to the forum, specifically for those who have supported the site financially. The exclusive enclave of Stormfront’s most influential users eliminated much of the ‘noise’ found in the more popular and openly available sections such as “Newslinks & Articles.” It is also home to the majority of Don Black’s infrequent postings.

The results have been fairly spectacular. In January 2002, Stormfront had a mere 5,000 members. A year later, membership reached 11,000; and a year after that, in early 2004, it had 23,000. By 2008, membership had topped 133,000 registered users, although only about 20,000 were believed to be active posters. That doesn't include the large numbers of those who simply read Stormfront postings without joining up (becoming a member allows one to post messages and also to view personal information posted by other members).

But Stormfront may have been weakened in the summer of 2008, when the Intelligence Report reported that Black's wife Chloe worked for Emilia Fanjul, wife of Florida sugar baron Jose "Pepe" Fanjul, as an executive assistant. Part of Chloe's duties involved serving as a publicist for Glades Academy, a charter school created by Emilia Fanjul to help poor minority children — an irony picked up on by many major media outlets. Despite having a long movement history of her own and having attended an event put on a month earlier by the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, Chloe Black told The Palm Beach Post that she was "not involved with the Web site and do not agree with extremist or racially prejudiced views." White supremacists were not happy. In racist Web forums, they ripped both Don and Chloe as less than true-blue racists, denouncing them for caring more about money, through Chloe's job, than their beliefs.

In 2010, Black, his son Derek, who has since renounced white nationalism, and Duke took up residence on a South Florida news and talk radio station with a large Haitian audience. This bi-weekly program, hosted by the far right-wing Rense Radio Network, was the predecessor for Stormfront Radio, which now reaches North America, as well as over 100 million homes in Europe and the Middle East, daily via satellite.

Later that same year, Stormfront introduced its now annual “Smoky Mountain Summit” near Knoxville, Tenn. Past speakers have included David Duke, Sam Dickson, a CCC member and well known Klan lawyer, Paul Fromm, Matthew Parrott, of the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), Matthew Heimbach, also of TYN, Timothy Murchoch, also known as ‘Horace the Avenger’ of White Rabbit Radio, and Freeland Roy Dunscombe, also known as ‘Truck Roy,’ Don Black’s co-host on Stormfront radio. Plans have already been announced to continue the summit in 2015.

In April of 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a white paper entitled “White Homicide Worldwide” documenting the nearly 100 murders committed by members of Stormfront.

Stormfront had accumulated nearly 300,000 members as of its 20th anniversary as of March 2015. Two months later, that benchmark was officially passed. This growth in membership seems poised to continue, despite declining Alexa Internet traffic ratings (which measure all visitors, not just registered members), as the majority of the radical right continues to use the Internet as its primary means of activism.

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Stormfront Nazis Think the Alt-Right Is Full of Idiots | WIRED

mfront Nazis Think the Alt-Right Is Full of Idiots | WIREDSkip to main contentOpen Navigation MenuMenuStory SavedTo revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.Close AlertStormfront Nazis Think the 'Alt-Right' Is Full of IdiotsSecurityPoliticsGearBackchannelBusinessScienceCultureIdeasMerchMoreChevronStory SavedTo revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.Close AlertSign InSearchSearchSecurityPoliticsGearBackchannelBusinessScienceCultureIdeasMerchPodcastsVideoWired WorldArtificial IntelligenceClimateGamesNewslettersMagazineEventsWIRED InsiderJobsCouponsAshley FeinbergSecurityAug 22, 2017 11:27 AMStormfront Nazis Think the 'Alt-Right' Is Full of IdiotsWhite supremacist message board users has taken issue with the alt-right, in an echo of past divisions.OddjobSave this storySaveSave this storySaveWhen hundreds of white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville with lit tiki torches and swastikas, chanting "Jews will not replace us," they drew the ire of countless left-leaning groups, civil rights activists, politicians from both sides of the aisle—and also of Stormfront, the decades-old internet watering hole for David Duke-style white supremacists and neo-Nazis.Many of Stormfront's users viewed the actions of the Unite the Right rally-goers (most of whom fall under the self-selected moniker of "alt-right," although "Nazis who like memes" also works) as outrageous, shameful, and counterproductive to their shared goals of securing a future for the white race. Stormfront posters complained that the ragtag collection of groups brandishing homemade shields and screaming openly about Jews gave other neo-Nazis a bad name. They viewed the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer almost exclusively as bad PR.The rifts between Stormfront's white supremacists and the younger, more internet-savvy generation that cut its teeth on 4chan have shown before. In fact, Stormfront's frustration with the Charlottesville rally-goers reflects the same ideological disagreements that have divided white supremacist groups since the early days of the Ku Klux Klan. New racists, same fights.Stormfront's present-day concerns coalesce around recruiting best-practices. The alt-right's flamboyance, they say, could alienate potential enlistees to their movement of hate."Some were carrying swastikas and that isn't good for our image, because of the propogabda [sic] embedded into everyone's minds," wrote user pontypool, although he later added that he was "glad for any whites uniting, even, the morons."“This is still a propaganda battle," another user wrote. "How does this help us win a propaganda battle? Someone died and around twenty people went to the hospital."Screenshot via Stormfront.

Beyond shields and swastikas presenting a bad look, the two sides also disagree on long-term strategy. "The factions, in my view, generally reflect differences of opinion that hinge on the normative role of the state in securing or legitimizing white supremacy," says Christopher Petrella, a lecturer in American cultural studies at Bates College.Most PopularPoliticsThe Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable MessBrian BarrettScienceSolar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater SupplyFred PearceSecurityAirbnb Bans All Indoor Security CamerasAmanda HooverScienceStumped by Heat Pumps?Rhett AllainWhere the alt-right sees the establishment as effectively useless, Petrella says, members of Stormfront believe that white nationalists can best further their cause—which, again, is turning the US into a white ethnostate—by insidiously working their way into the mainstream. Torches and Nazi chants aren't exactly the best foot forward.By contrast, the forum postings argue, if you can make yourself sound even moderately reasonable to people who'd rather not think of themselves as racist, then you've already won.Screenshot via Stormfront.

Stromfront's white supremacists rolled their eyes even at the branding around Charlottesville. "Calling it 'Unite the Right' was a huge tactical error,” one Stormfront user wrote. "If they really wanted to accomplish their goal of protecting confederate monuments, they would not have alienated the many many left-wing historic preservationists who have actual power and who would otherwise greatly sympathize with such a cause.”“I've yet to see any common White man or woman jump off the fence and join the ranks," wrote VikingSong. "The only folk angry about what's been going on are us who are WNs [white nationalists] anyway! But maybe it's because I'm a 'normie,' who hasn't been 'red pilled' enough? Maybe I need a 'woke' twenty something, with a whole vocabulary of infantile buzzwords at their command, to explain their strategy to me because I sure as hell can't understand it?”Screenshot via Stormfront.

Most PopularPoliticsThe Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable MessBrian BarrettScienceSolar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater SupplyFred PearceSecurityAirbnb Bans All Indoor Security CamerasAmanda HooverScienceStumped by Heat Pumps?Rhett AllainOf course, Stormfront's veneer of propriety is only that. According to a 2014 report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Stormfront users committed 100 murders between 2009 and 2014. "Investigators find that most offenders openly advocated their ideology online for lengthy periods while sucking up the hatred around them," the SPLC wrote. 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A former Klan state leader and long-time white supremacist, Don Black is best known for creating Stormfront.org, the first major Internet hate site.

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While the site remains popular in racist circles today, Black came under criticism in 2008 from other white supremacists for toning down its offensive content and for the claimed renunciation of racism made by his wife, Chloe Black, to a reporter.

In his own words

"The people that visit Stormfront have a righteous indignation to the Israelization of America. Zionism unbound, that is what goes on in Washington, D.C., these days. … [T]he Jewish people demolish homes abroad and condition peoples minds with the media here in the U.S.A."

— 2004 interview with Impact News

"I remember [the 1950s] quite well, that a lot of people were mad about blacks. They were mad about school integration and black crime…. [B]ut … it was kind of rare to find someone that really, fully understood the Jewish involvement … behind all of this promotion of the destruction of culture and our heritage, the destruction of our schools and our neighborhoods. … [W]ith the Internet — and, I think, with this involvement in the Middle East, American involvement in the Middle East — everything's changed. I mean, we have to calm down people sometimes on Stormfront about the Jews."

— Stormfront.org radio, 2008

"I get nonstop E-mails and private messages from new people who are mad as hell about the possibility of Obama being elected. White people, for a long time, have thought of our government as being for us, and Obama is the best possible evidence that we've lost that. This is scaring a lot of people who maybe never considered themselves racists, and it's bringing them over to our side."

— 2008 interview with The Washington Post

"[I]f Obama wins, then Americans, white Americans, are really going to realize where they stand. It'll be demoralizing for a lot of our people, and also white people throughout the world, to have the world's greatest military power headed up by a black."

— Stormfront.org radio, 2008

Criminal history

On April 27, 1981, Black and nine other white supremacists were arrested as they prepared to board a yacht stocked with weapons and ammunition to invade the Caribbean island of Dominica and take over its government. Black served three years in federal prison for his role in the invasion plot and for his violation of the Neutrality Act.

In 1987, Black, along with Klan leader David Duke, was reportedly charged with reckless conduct and for illegally blocking a state highway in Forsyth County, Ga., where they had traveled to take advantage of simmering racial tensions.

Background

Going back to high school, Don Black has always been one of the more enthusiastic proponents of white power. One of his first forays into the organized movement was in the 1970s, when he volunteered for the late white supremacist J.B. Stoner's unsuccessful run for governor of Georgia. He stayed with the campaign until Stoner's campaign manager, Jerry Ray, the brother of Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray, shot Black in the chest. The shooting apparently stemmed from accusations that Black had broken into Stoner's office to steal a mailing list for the National Socialist White People's Party.

After recovering, Black went on to join the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the group headed by David Duke in the 1970s. Working on Duke's unsuccessful campaign for Louisiana state Senate, Black won Duke's trust, moving up to become his mentor's right-hand man in addition to his post as Alabama grand dragon, or state leader. When Duke left the group amid allegations that he'd tried to sell its membership list to another Klan group for $35,000, Black took over. Later, in the 1970s, according to The Crusader, a KKK newspaper, Black sponsored marches in defense of Robert Chambliss, who stood accused (and was later convicted) of the 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham, Ala. Not long after, Black got into trouble himself. In 1981, he and nine other white supremacists were arrested as they prepared to board a yacht with which they intended to invade the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica, oust its black-run government, and transform it into a "white state." Black's resulting three-year federal prison sentence was time well spent. He took classes in computer programming that would provide the basis for his future.

Not long after his release, Black launched an unsuccessful campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama. He wound up marrying Duke's ex-wife, Chloe Hardin, and moving to West Palm Beach, Fla. Once there, he began dabbling with his computer, eventually setting up a dial-up bulletin board service for the radical right. By March 1995, that service evolved into Stormfront.org, the Net's first ever and best-known American hate site.

Black saw clearly that with this new technology, white supremacists might finally bypass the mainstream media and political apparatus, getting their message out to people who otherwise would never hear it. And he realized the importance of the fact that people who now could read about white supremacist ideas in the privacy of their own homes without fear of embarrassment or reproach. "The potential of the Net for organizations and movements such as ours is enormous," Black told a reporter in 1996. "We're reaching tens of thousands of people who never before had access to our point of view."

The results have been fairly spectacular. In January 2002, Stormfront had a mere 5,000 members. A year later, membership reached 11,000; and a year after that, in early 2004, it had 23,000. By 2008, membership hit about 133,000 registered users, though the majority were inactive. These numbers don't include the large numbers who simply read Stormfront postings without actually joining up (becoming a member allows one to post messages and also to view personal information posted by other members).

One of Stormfront's main attractions is that it provides forums for so called "white nationalists" to post articles, engage in forum discussions, and share news of upcoming racist events. Below the Stormfront motto, "White Pride World Wide," are links to racially charged news stories like "Mestizo Rapes White Woman in Elevator" and "Negro Man Stabs Elderly Woman, Shoots Detective, Negroes Screaming ‘Police Brutality." Stormfront's various forums can also contain threads like "What do you want done with the Jews?," "Aryan Storm Rising," and "To Hate or Not to Hate." But one thing you won't normally find on Stormfront today, unlike in its early years, are racial slurs. In fact, new members are explicitly warned not to use such language, and also not to post violent threats or anything describing illegal activity. It's not that Stormfront is about moderation. The talk is all about the evils of African Americans, homosexuals, non-white immigrants, and, above all, Jews, who are blamed for most of what's wrong in the world. But Black clearly has modeled his site on some of the tactics used by David Duke, who famously urged his Klan followers to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms." As Black once told a reporter, "We don't use the ‘n-----, n-----' type of approaches."

Duke and Black have remained close over the years. In 2004, Black was on hand to celebrate the end of Duke's one-and-a-half year federal prison term (for mail fraud and misstating his income taxes) at a New Orleans event put on by Duke's European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO). Black signed on to Duke's "New Orleans Protocol," a set of principles "pledging adherents to a pan-European outlook." More recently, Duke has been a regular on Black's Stormfront.org Radio, an Internet radio program that features white supremacists.

In 2008, Black made the news when the Intelligence Report reported that his wife Chloe worked for Emilia Fanjul, wife of sugar baron Jose "Pepe" Fanjul, as an executive assistant. Part of Chloe's duties involved serving as a publicist for Glades Academy, a charter school created by Emilia Fanjul to help poor minority children. Despite having attended an event put on by the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens a month earlier, Chloe Black told the Palm Beach Post, "I am not involved with the website [Stormfront] and do not agree with extremist or racially prejudiced views." The Post, based on information supplied by the Southern Poverty Law Center, also reported that Don Black had recently toned down Stormfront, banning many symbols of Nazism that formerly were common on the site, including swastikas and SS lightning bolts, and getting rid of particularly offensive terms, including "n-----." White supremacists were not happy. In racist Web forums, they ripped both Don and Chloe, denouncing them for caring more about money than their beliefs.

The 2008 presidential election gave Stormfront a lift. Don Black boasted on the site he was seeing six times the usual web traffic because of a possible Obama win. "There are a lot of angry White people out there looking for answers," he wrote. "Let's show them. We will not be defeated."

In 2009, the BBC reported that five American right-wing extremists were among 16 individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom for reasons of "fostering extremism or hatred." Black was one of those banned. According to the U.K. Home Office (the lead U.K. government department for immigration and passports), Black was banned for "promoting serious criminal activity and fostering hatred that might lead to inter-community violence in the UK."

On July 15, 2013, the Southern Poverty Law Center received an unsolicited E-mail from Black’s 24-year-old son Derek in which he renounced the white nationalism he had been taught by his father. Derek, who had started a children’s page on Stormfront at age 12 and who had later hosted a radio show featuring racist guests, cited a “gradual awakening process” to explain his change of heart. He wrote that he had come to see the arguments of white nationalism as “principally flawed,” adding that he had realized that American society is marked by an “overwhelming disparity between white power and that of everyone else” and that white nationalism was really about “an entrenched desire to preserve white power at the expense of others.”

“Advocating for white nationalism means that we are opposed to minority attempts to elevate themselves to a position equal to our own,” wrote Black, who had just finished his third year at New College of Florida. “It is an advocacy that I cannot support, having grown past my bubble, talked to the people I affected, read more widely, and realized the necessary impact my actions had on people I never wanted to harm.”

Derek’s renunciation followed a November 2012 post to a students-only forum at his college in which he wrote that he was not a white supremacist and that, contrary to the assumptions of his peers, he supported same-sex marriage, environmental regulation, and legal abortion.

Don Black, writing on Stormfront, expressed surprise while confirming that Derek had indeed penned the E-mail, contrary to suspicions of others in the white nationalist movement that he had been blackmailed by the SPLC. “I don’t want to talk to him, but his big sister called him, and he confirmed that he had written what the SPLC posted,” Black added. “He says he doesn’t understand why we’d feel betrayed just because he announced his ‘personal beliefs’ to our worst enemies. Oh well. Just when I thought I couldn’t lose anything else.”

Stormfront entered its 20th year in March of 2015 with Black still at the helm. Commanding a website with nearly 300,000 users as well as a daily radio show with the ability to reach a global audience makes Black one of the most recognizable and active white nationalists in the movement today.

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A Waning Storm: Once the World’s Most Popular White Nationalist Website, Stormfront is Running out of Steam

February 22, 2017

Keegan Hankes and Sam Zhang

After just over 20 years as the premier online gathering place for white Supremacists, Stormfront.org lost its crown to the unruly, meme-fueled neo-Nazi propaganda shop, the Daily Stormer, in July of 2016.

Despite being relegated to second-best, the site still boasts an impressive number of registrations — more than 320,000 — and represents one of the most complete archives of global far-right extremism as it pertains to current events.

In an effort to better understand the scope and scale of the influence Stormfront enjoyed as the forum of record for over two decades, Hatewatch is introducing a weekly collection of graphs and analysis related to the site’s most popular section, “Newslinks & Articles,” home of nearly 3 million posts.

Founded in 1995, Stormfront did not introduce a forum to the site until 2001. Registrants participating in the Newslinks & Articles section steadily climbed annually until 2008, with a sharp increase from ‘07 to ‘08, the period leading up to the election of President Barack Obama.

Since ‘08 annual registrations have fallen off precipitously — a trend that seems unlikely to abate after the youthful Daily Stormer dethroned Stormfront last July.

While visitors aren’t required to register, you must be signed into an account to post content. Guests to the forum typically outnumber registered users by a factor of 10.

Examining annual registrations in the context of first posts — any account that posts for the first time in Newslinks & Articles — reveals a strong positive correlation.

From 2001 to late 2007, there were regularly more registrations than first posts, likely as a community began to form and the site’s reputation grew. From early 2008 onward, rates of registration and first postings were nearly identical.

One notable exception is in mid-2007, when Hillary Clinton ended her bid for the Presidency, making Barack Obama the presumptive Democratic nominee. This seems to have driven a large population of already registered users into posting for the first time.

Notably, there was not a corresponding spike in new registrations until late 2008 when Obama won the presidency. The surge in both registrations and first posts reflects presumed shock and rage from the Stormfront population to the United States’ first black president.

The extent of that shock and rage is further illustrated by considering the number of new registrants in the context of the number of active users on Stormfront.

The period around the election of Barack Obama to his first term as president saw new registrations raise to an all-time high, surpassing all active posters. The surge was the third and final time that registrations surpassed active users on the site after mid-2006. Both new registrations and active posters have both trended downward since President Obama’s election in 2008 — a course unlikely to change as future converts to white supremacy bypass Stormfront entirely in favor of a new generation of provocative sites less interested in commiserating than fighting an inflammatory meme war online.

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Major Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Website Stormfront Has Been Kicked Offline

April Glaser

Aug 27, 20175:28 PM

The Ku Klux Klan may have difficulty organizing rallies if their websites keep getting kicked offline.

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One of the most prominent white supremacist and Nazi destinations online, Stormfront.org, went dark Friday, likely at the behest of its domain host Network Solutions. This is just the latest in a wave of online hate-group account deletions and website closures in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally that turned violent earlier this month.

Stormfront had been in operation since 1995, and according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, it was the first major hate website on the internet. Founded by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and Nazi Party member Don Black, the website was a forum for more than 300,000 registered members before it shuttered on Friday. “Our mission is to provide information not available in the controlled news media and to build a community of White activists working for the survival of our people,” Stormfront’s posting guidelines read.

According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is taking credit for the closure. The committee sent a series of letters to Network Solutions arguing that Stormfront’s forum was in violation of the domain provider’s usage policies, which explicitly prohibits using their web services to “display bigotry, discrimination, or hatred in any manner whatsoever.”

In a 2014 report, SPLC traced nearly 100 murders back to Stormfront users, who flocked to the website to take part in hate-filled discussion boards. Most of those were committed by Anders Breivik, who murdered 69 people in Norway in 2011. In another incident, Stormfront user Richard Poplawski killed three police officers in Pittsburgh in 2009.

Beyond discussion boards, Stormfront was a place where members of the KKK and Nazi Party organized demonstrations and social gatherings, including Stormfront’s seventh annual “Great Smoky Mountain Summit,” which is slated to take place on Sept. 30 at an undisclosed location in East Tennessee. Sept. 30 is also Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism. KKK attorney Sam Dickinson and famous Klan leader David Duke were scheduled to speak at the event, which included a nature walk and Friday reception, according to the Sentinel. As of Aug. 20, the private message board discussing the summit had about 700 posts, and people were already making ride-share arrangements.

But now, with Stormfront offline, all the logistics and planning have been forced offline too. Same goes for the email addresses associated with Stormfront.org. I tried emailing Don Black at the Stormfront address listed under his name on various other white supremacist forums, and it bounced back. The archives for email addresses under that domain may be inaccessible, too.

The internet is now central to all forms of political mobilization, for white supremacists and anti-fascists alike. When web service companies decide to stop hosting forums for online hate groups, it becomes a lot harder for those hate groups to organize. Nazis largely organized the violent Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville earlier this month on the Daily Stormer, a website that has since been booted off the internet by various domain hosts and was dropped as a customer by Cloudfare, which was providing critical security services for the racist, anti-Semitic website. Now people who wish to continue to engage in the Daily Stormer’s activities have to do so on the dark web, where the website has relocated and which is much more cumbersome to access; it generally loads much slower than websites with a more public domain.

Long before this latest wave of Nazis and racist ideologues felt emboldened to march down the streets with torches and firearms in tow, they created communities online, where they validated and encouraged each other’s hate speech and actions. Now the tech companies that have long provided the white supremacists a home are starting to take action to shut them out, thus crippling their ability to build a cohesive movement. While that’s probably a good thing, it’s also quite possible that the sudden deluge of hate-group account deletions could serve to strengthen a budding white power movement in the U.S., which is already premised on the idea that they, the white people in America, are under attack.

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Stormfront, the Internet’s Oldest White Supremacist Site, Says It’s Going Broke

Skip to Main Content CrosswordNewslettersALLCheat SheetObsessedPolitics2024 ElectionEntertainmentRoyalsMediaOpinionU.S. NewsScoutedCHEAT SHEETPOLITICSBiden WorldElectionsOpinionNational SecurityCongressPay DirtThe New AbnormalTrumplandMEDIAConfiderDaytime TalkLate-NightFox NewsU.S. NEWSIdentitiesCrimeRaceLGBTExtremismCoronavirusWORLDRussiaEuropeChinaMiddle EastINNOVATIONScienceTRAVELENTERTAINMENTTVMoviesMusicComedySportsSexTDB's ObsessedAwards ShowsThe Last LaughCULTUREPower TripFashionBooksRoyalistTECHDisinformationSCOUTEDSalesReviewsNew Kids on the BlockBeautyFitnessHomeTechnologyTravelCOUPONSVistaprint CouponsUlta CouponsOffice Depot CouponsAdidas Promo CodesWalmart Promo CodesH&M CouponsSpanx Promo CodesStubHub Promo CodesProductsNewslettersPodcastsCrosswordsSubscriptionFOLLOW USGOT A TIP?SEARCHHOMEPAGEExtremismStormfront, the Internet’s Oldest White Supremacist Site, Says It’s Going BrokeBANKKKRUPTThe hate forum is making less than $2,000 a month, and insiders claim its main founder just retired. It’s the latest blow to white supremacists online.Kelly WeillPublished Apr. 10, 2018 5:03AM EDT Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily BeastOne of the internet’s oldest white supremacist websites is on the brink of financial ruin, its owners say.Stormfront.org has been an internet hate hub since it launched in 1996. Its owner, former Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black, said last week that donations had plummeted and that the site was scaling back operations. But longtime Stormfront posters suggested Black’s wife had been paying the bills, and that she was finally checking out.“Our contributions have once again totaled less than $2,000, which is not enough to cover our basic server and radio bills, and this month we no longer have enough personal money to make up the difference,” Black wrote last week in a post first spotted by the Southern Poverty Law Center.The plunge in donations follows a decline in web traffic to the site. Though popular with an older generation of KKK members and white supremacists, Stormfront’s outdated design has fallen out of favor with younger neo-Nazis who tend toward sites like the right-wing Twitter clone Gab, and semi-private messaging platforms like Discord. So far in 2018, Stormfront has fallen more than 5,000 places in the global ranking of most-viewed websites, according to web traffic tracker Alexa.Black described a plan to shutter the site’s primary server and only allow paying members to access the forum.“My plan is to shut down the main server on the 6th, backing everything up offsite first. I hope to also move the entire 50gb database to our much smaller, secondary server,” he wrote. “This will be difficult because of the size of this site, and that server is not nearly adequate to run everything. But I hope it will be enough to allow access to Sustaining Members, but probably not to other users or guests.”But some Stormfront users claimed the cutoff came after Black’s wife Chloe stopped paying the website’s bills.“Don Black’s wife, Chloe, had been working full time past retirement age to help support this site,” one Stormfront user claimed, with others also claiming Chloe had kept the hate site’s lights on. “All of the years that Don posted how much was needed to run this site and all the months that SF didn’t receive enough donations. That difference was made up from Chloe Black's income. She is now recently retired and deserves to spend her time with her grandbabies. This situation combined with litigation from when SF was shut down last August, Don has more bills and less revenue to run the site.”Chloe Black, who could not be reached for comment on Monday, has a long history of involvement in the white supremacist movement. Chloe was previously married to former KKK leader David Duke, whom she met at a White Youth Alliance college gathering in the 1970s, and later divorced him to marry Black, another former KKK leader and neo-Nazi who was convicted in 1981 of attempting an armed overthrow of the predominantly black island nation of Dominica.While Chloe has previously distanced herself from Stormfront in written statements, watchers of the site have long speculated that she might be partially bankrolling the project.“But Don Black — who lives and operates Stormfront out of a house owned entirely by Chloe and valued at about half a million dollars — is apparently unemployed, although he claims to do some Internet consulting work,” the SPLC wrote in 2008, when it was revealed that Chloe had been doing public relations work, including for a school that focused on black and Latino children.“The website is believed to be at least partly supported by the salary that [Chloe’s former employer] Florida Crystals pays Chloe Black.”Stormfront also took a hit after a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August. After a man affiliated with a white supremacist group killed a counterprotester with a car, activists pressured web services to stop doing business with racist sites like Stormfront. The site’s web registrar booted it offline in late August, although it re-emerged with a new registrar in October.Black isn’t just paying Stormfront’s expenses. A search of web domains registered under his email address reveals he’s squatting on a number of web addresses, at unknown cost to him. Among those addresses is MartinLutherKing.org, MLKing.org, a few URLs with variations on “white nationalism,” and whitesingles.com. The Martin Luther King-related addresses used to host racist content, but now appear defunct after a Daily Beast report earlier this year. Whitesingles.com redirects to Stormfront’s dating page.Black is also squatting on DerekBlack.com, the name of his son who famously disavowed his family’s racist views after President Donald Trump’s election, and now speaks against white supremacy. From 2010 until 2013, Derek and his father ran “The Derek Black Show,” a radio program Black paid $600 per week to broadcast on AM radio.The radio program, alone, cost Black thousands of dollars each month, on top of the costs of running Stormfront. Five years later, according to Black’s plea for donations, the white supremacist site doesn’t even generate enough to fund the old radio show. Kelly WeillGot a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.READ THIS LISTMore from The Daily BeastCheat SheetPoliticsEntertainmentMediaWorldInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedTravelSubscriptionCrosswordNewslettersPodcastsAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & ConditionsCopyright & TrademarkSitemapCouponsCoupons:Dick's Sporting Goods CouponsHP Coupon CodesChewy Promo CodesNordstrom Rack CouponsNordVPN CouponsJCPenny CouponsNordstrom CouponsSamsung Promo CouponsHome Depot CouponsHotwire Promo CodeseBay CouponsAshley Furniture Promo Codes© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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