Public service announcement:
This is not about whether Google should have the absolute right to refuse to do business with someone.
This is about whether Google should have the right to arbitrarily steal customers' domains because they don't like the contents.
Google has put dailystormer.com in "client hold" status. Which means that it's not in DNS and can't be moved away from Google to another registrar.
And it's still, almost a month later, in that status.
This is clearly not OK or acceptable business practices in any way regardless of someone's personal opinion about the (fully legal, by the way) contents of Daily Stormer.
In other words, they are not only refusing to do business with Daily Stormer, but also actively preventing them from doing business with anyone else. They have absolutely no right, under law or any of the relevant agreements including their own ToS, to do this.
The only reason Google can do this is becaues they are big and well-financed enough that they don't have to give a flying f*ck about any legal consequences. Sounds perfectly reasonable to you...?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
