GoDaddy CEO: We booted the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website for inciting violence

GoDaddy CEO: We booted the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website for inciting violence

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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/15/godaddy-ceo-we-booted-the-neo-nazi-daily-stormer-website-for-inciting-violence.html

GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving told CNBC on Tuesday that the domain name provider cut ties with The Daily Stormer because the neo-Nazi website crossed the line from exercising freedom of speech to provoking further mayhem in the immediate aftermath of the white supremacist chaos over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

"We always have to ride the fence on making sure we are protecting a free and open internet. And regardless of whether speech is hateful, bigoted, racist, ignorant, tasteless, in many cases we will still keep that content up because we don't want to be a censor and First Amendment rights matter not just in speech but on the internet as well," Irving said on "Squawk Alley."