We're talking about 3 different things.
1) DNS services. A few years back, dailystormer turned to a company in China for DNS services, in particular for DDoS protection. Back then, I think dailystormer was registered as dailystormer.su (not China). I posted about this 2 years ago on Stormfront.org: https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1315472/
2) Domain Registration. Virtually every domain registrar has banned dailystormer. Anglin lost dailystormer.su, dailystormer.name, etc. Now he's down to dailystormer.cn (China).
3) Webhosting. I don't think Anglin / Weev / DS has ever actually used China for webhosting or co-locating servers.
We're talking about the same thing then.
DNS services shouldn't be a problem, no matter the country. Blocks are almost always done on ISP levels (At the demand of governments). Their DHCP servers provide their DNS servers by default in the lease. Most users don't even know what it is and how to manually change them.
Domain registration is another thing, as the .cn domain (not website) can only be registered and hosted in China. But if they don't host the related website, they will most certainly investigate on the content that domain is sharing. So It's pretty much like hosting your website in China, but less complicated (doesn't require an ICP number).
And that's where I'm curious. How could they get a pass to register a domain name that has been linked to a website that has been exposing things regarding the CCP? If they got a pass, that means there's something we don't know.
a website that has been exposing things regarding the CCP
As far as I can tell, dailystormer has been pro-China for the last few years.
Can you find a dailystormer article within the last 2 years that was anti-China?
I could do that, but that wouldn't change my concern on why a "free speech platform" would go and get their domain hosted by a country that doesn't consider free speech as a basic human right.
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