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I think Gab [1] is a relevant example. They were dropped by their GoDaddy, Stripe, PayPal, etc. after the tree of life shooter posted their manifesto on the site. Another example would be Cloudflare dropping 8chan [2] after the El Paso shooter, Christchurch shooter, and Poway synagogue shooter used the site to post their manifestos. Cloudflare also dropped support for the neo-nazi website The Daily Stormer [3] although my impression is that the reason for termination was deeply related to people on the website claiming their continued business relationship signaled ideological sympathy on the part of Cloudflare [4 -- about halfway down]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/far-right-social-network-g...

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/

[3]https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

[4] https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/



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