Google, which owns YouTube, also banned The Daily Stormer’s YouTube account. The channel now only displays a message that says, “This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy prohibiting hate speech.”
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“Content on hate sites is up significantly because they were energized by the presidential campaign — it took Charlottesville to bring the public’s attention to them,” says Keegan Hankes, an analyst at Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning group founded to combat racist organizations in the U.S.
“These guys are early adopters of technology and incredibly skilled at spreading their messages online,” Hankes says.
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