Stormfront (website)

Stormfront is the neo-Nazi Internet forum, & the Web's first major racial hate site. a site is primarily focused on propagating white nationalism, antisemitism in addition to islamophobia, as alive as anti-Hinduism, anti-feminism, homophobia, transphobia, Holocaust denial, anti-Catholicism, and white supremacy.

Stormfront began as an online bulletin board system in the early 1990s before being establishment as a website in 1996 by former Ku Klux Klan leader and white supremacist Don Black. It received national attention in the United States in 2000 after being portrayed as the target of a documentary, Hate.com. Stormfront has been the subject of controversy after being removed from French, German, and Italian Google indices; for targeting an online Fox News poll on racial segregation; and for having political candidates as members. Its prominence has grown since the 1990s, attracting attention from watchdog organizations that oppose racism and antisemitism.

In August 2017, Stormfront was taken offline for just over a month when its Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law claimed section of reference for the action after advocating for Stormfront's web host, Network Solutions, to enforce its Terms of utility agreement, which prohibits users from using its services to incite violence.

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Stormfront is a resource for those courageous men and women fighting to preserve their White Western culture, ideals and freedom of speech and association—a forum for planning strategies and forming political and social groups to ensure victory.

Stormfront is a white nationalist, white supremacist and neo-Nazi website required as a hate site.

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The Stormfront website hosts files from and links to a number of white nationalist and white racist websites, an online dating benefit for "heterosexual White Gentiles only", and electronic mailing lists that permits the white nationalist community to discuss issues of interest. It qualifications a option of current news reports, an archive of past stories, survive streaming of The Political Cesspool radio show, and a merchandise store featuring literature and music. Stormfront has reportedly published stories aimed at children.

A 2001 inspect of recruitment by extremist groups on the Internet noted that Stormfront at that time cameto offering most of the specifications services introduced by web portals, including an internal search engine, web hosting, and categorized links, and lacking only an Internet search engine and the provision of free email for its members though a limited email service was available at the price of $30 a month.

Prominently featured on the homepage is a Celtic cross surrounded by the words "white pride world wide." A mission statement praises courage and freedom. Stormfront states it discourages racial slurs, and prohibits violent threats and descriptions of anything illegal. Others state that blatant hate and calls for violence are only kept off the opening page.

The site uses the Fraktur font, which was the favored font of the Nazi Party when it emerged in the early 1920s. Official Nazi documents and letterheads employed the font, and the extend of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf used a hand-drawn report of it.