Stormfront began as an online bulletin board system in the early 1990s before being established as a website in 1996 by the former Ku Klux Klan leader and white supremacistDon Black. It received national attention in the United States in 2000 after being featured as the subject of a documentary called 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 registrar seized its domain name due to complaints that it promoted hatred and that some of its members were linked to murder.[7][8] The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law claimed credit for the action after advocating for Stormfront's web host, Network Solutions, to enforce its Terms of Service agreement, which prohibits users from using its services to incite violence.[9][10]
History
Early history
Stormfront began in 1990 as an online bulletin board supporting the white nationalist David Duke's campaign for United States senator for Louisiana. The name "Stormfront" was chosen for its connotations of a political or military front (such as the German Nazi Sturmabteilung (also known as storm troopers or SA) and an analogy with weather fronts that invokes the idea of a tumultuous storm ending in cleansing.[11] The Stormfront website has been registered at Network Solutions since 1995 and was founded in 1996 by Don Black, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s and a member of the National Socialist White People's Party.[12][13][14] Black first received computer training while he was imprisoned for his role in an abortive 1981 attempt to overthrow the government of Dominica.[15][16]
Although Stormfront became the first website associated with white supremacy, its founding as a private cyberspace medium for white supremacy was based on the earlier online bulletin board systemLiberty Net.[17][18] Liberty Net was implemented in 1984 by Klan Grand DragonLouis Beam and protected by four password-protected computers that took the FBI two years to decrypt.[19] Liberty Net's code-accessed message board contained personal ads along with recruitment material and information about the white power movement.[19] Liberty Net's success as a computer platform led to Stormfront's establishment and later conversion into a website.
Until this point, attempts at using the Internet as opposed to bulletin boards have had limited success for the white pride movement,[20] but Stormfront developed a following with the growth of the Internet during the 1990s.[11][21] By 1999, nearly 2,000 websites associated with white supremacism existed, with the recruitment power of reaching millions across the United States.[22]
National attention
The website has received considerable attention in the United States, given that, as of 2009, it had over 120,000 active members.[23]
The 2000 CBS/HBO TV documentary special Hate.com focused on the rise of hate groups online and included input from Don Black, the founder of Stormfront.[24] Narrated by Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), it featured interviews with Black and his child Derek as well as interviews with other white nationalist groups and organizations.[24] Black had participated in the hope that the broadcast would show some sympathy towards the white nationalist movement, but Hate.com focused exclusively on the group's tactics and not its grievances.[22]
Controversies
In 2002, Google complied with French and German legislation forbidding links to websites that host white supremacist, Holocaust-denying, or historical negationism material by removing Stormfront's website from their French and German indexes.[25]
Stormfront returned to the news in May 2003, when Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly reported on a racially segregated prom being held in Georgia and posted a poll on his website asking his viewers if they would send their own children to one. The next night, O'Reilly announced that he could not report the results of the poll as it appeared Stormfront had urged its members to vote in the poll, thus skewing the numbers.[26]
Doug Hanks, a candidate for the city council of Charlotte, North Carolina, withdrew his nomination in August 2005 after it was revealed that he had posted on Stormfront. Hanks had posted more than 4,000 comments over three years, including one in which he described black people as "rabid beasts".[27][28] Hanks said his postings were designed to gain the trust of Stormfront users to help him write a novel: "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."[27]
In 2012, Italian police blocked the website and arrested four people for inciting racial hatred.[29] The measure was taken after the publication of a blacklist of "prominent Jews and people who support Jews and immigrants" on the Italian section of the website. The list included possible targets of violent attacks, including Romani camps.[30] The subsequent year, in November 2013, Italian police raided the homes of 35 Stormfront posters. One man who was arrested in Mantua had two loaded weapons, a hand grenade casing, and a flag with a swastika in his possession.[31]
According to a 2014 two-year study by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)'s Intelligence Report, registered Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since its founding in 1995. From 2009 to 2014, nearly 100 people were murdered by members of Stormfront.[32][33][34][35] Of these, 77 were massacred by Stormfront user Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian terrorist and perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks.[36]
Public profile and later history
The total of registered users is just shy of 300,000, a fairly astounding number for a site run by an ex-felon and former Alabama Klan leader. And that doesn't include thousands of visitors who never register as users. At press time, Stormfront ranked as the Internet's 13,648th most popular site, while the NAACP site, by comparison, ranked 32,640th. – The Year in Hate and Extremism, 2015[37]
In a 2001 USA Today article, journalist Tara McKelvey called Stormfront "the most visited white supremacist site on the Net."[16] The number of registered users on the site rose from 5,000 in January 2002 to 52,566 in June 2005,[38] by which year it was the 338th largest Internet forum, receiving more than 1,500 hits each weekday and ranking in the top one percent of Internet sites in terms of use.[39][40] By June 2008, the site was attracting more than 40,000 unique users each day.[41] Operating the site from its West Palm Beach, Florida headquarters is Black's full-time job, and he was assisted by his child and 40 moderators.[12][41][42] The public profile of the site attracted attention from groups such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).[43] The ADL describes Stormfront as having "served as a veritable supermarket of online hate, stocking its shelves with many forms of anti-Semitism and racism".[44]
In 2006, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reported a discussion on Stormfront in which white nationalists were encouraged to join the United States military to learn the skills necessary for winning a race war.[45][46] The 2008 United States presidential candidacy of African-American DemocratBarack Obama was a cause of significant concern for some Stormfront members:[41] the site received 2,000 new members the day after Obama was elected as president, and went offline temporarily due to the increase in visitors.[47] Stormfront posters saw Obama as representing a new multicultural era in the United States replacing "white rule", and feared that he would support illegal immigration and affirmative action and that he would help make white people a minority group.[41]
Following an April 2009 shooting, Richard Poplawski, a poster on the site, calling himself Braced for Fate, was charged with ambushing and killing three Pittsburgh police officers and attempting to kill nine others.[50]
During the 2016 election season, site founder Don Black said that the site was experiencing huge spikes in traffic corresponding to controversial statements by Donald Trump, who is popular among white supremacists. In response, Black upgraded the site's servers.[51]
Black's child Derek, who was a long-time participant in the site, has disavowed the beliefs held by their father and family and the Stormfront site. Through their years in college, Derek Black came to feel that white nationalism is not supportable. Their story was captured in the book, "Rising Out of Hatred" by Eli Saslow.[52][53]
In August 2017, Stormfront's domain name was seized by its registrar for "displaying bigotry, discrimination or hatred."[9]
The site came back online on September 29, 2017. As of October 2017, services to keep the site online were provided by Tucows, Network Solutions, and Cloudflare.[54]
The neo-Nazi supervillain Stormfront in the Amazon Prime superhero series The Boys is named after the website.[55]
It is a site on which Nazi mysticism and the personality cult of Adolf Hitler are sustained and Nazi iconography is used and accepted.[56] The Stormfront website is organized primarily as a discussion forum with multiple thematic sub-forums including "News", "Ideology and Philosophy" ("Foundations for White Nationalism"), "Culture and Customs", "Theology", "Quotations", "Revisionism", "Science, Technology and Race" ("Genetics, eugenics, racial science and related subjects"), "Privacy", "Self-Defense, Martial Arts, and Preparedness", "Homemaking", "Education and Homeschooling", "Youth", and "Music and Entertainment".[38][41] There are boards for different geographic regions, and a section open to unregistered guests, who are elsewhere unable to post, and even then, only under heavy moderation.[citation needed]
Services
The Stormfront website hosts files from and links to a number of white nationalist and white racist websites,[17] an online dating service (for "heterosexual White Gentiles only"), and electronic mailing lists that allows the white nationalist community to discuss issues of interest.[20][43][57] It features a selection of current news reports, an archive of past stories, live streaming of The Political Cesspool radio show,[58] and a merchandise store featuring literature and music.[59] Stormfront has reportedly published stories aimed at children.[56]
A 2001 study of recruitment by extremist groups on the Internet noted that Stormfront at that time came close to offering most of the standard services offered 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).[56]
Design
Prominently featured on the homepage is a Celtic cross surrounded by the words "white pride world wide." Stormfront states it discourages racial slurs, and prohibits violent threats and descriptions of anything illegal.[38][56] Others state that blatant hate and calls for violence are only kept off the opening page.[59][60]
The site uses the Fraktur font,[61] 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 cover of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf used a hand-drawn version of it.[62]
Purpose and appeal
Don Black has long attempted to increase the mainstream appeal of white supremacy.[38] Black established Stormfront to heighten awareness of perceived anti-white discrimination and government actions detrimental to white people,[63] and to create a virtual community of white extremists.[11][41][56][64] Black owns the site's servers, so he is not dependent upon website hosting providers.[40]
Black's organization inculcated enough white pride to make "its worldwide aspirations meaningful and socially significant".[59] Stormfront keeps the rhetoric in its forums muted, discourages racial slurs, and prohibits violent threats and descriptions of anything illegal.[38][56] Site moderator Jamie Kelso was reportedly "the motivating force behind real community-building among Stormfront members" due to his energy and enthusiasm in organizing offline events.[65] Black's positioning the site as a community with the explicit purpose of "defending the white race" helped sustain the community, as it attracts white people who define themselves in opposition to ethnic minorities, particularly Jews.[38]
Stormfront established MartinLutherKing.org to discredit Martin Luther King Jr.[66] In a 2001 study of white nationalist groups including Stormfront, academics Beverly Ray and George E. Marsh II commented: "Like the Nazis before them, they rely upon a blend of science, ignorance, and mythology to prop up their arguments".[56][67]
Ideology
Stormfront presents itself as being engaged in a struggle for unity and identifies culture, speech, and free association as its core concerns,[59] though members of Stormfront are especially passionate about racial purity.[65] It promotes a lone wolf mentality, which links it to white nationalist theorist Louis Beam's influential work on leaderless resistance and offers a sympathetic assessment of Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, a white supremacist who committed suicide after a racially motivated killing spree in July 1999.[56] Violet Jones notes that Stormfront credits its mission to "the founding myth of an America created, built, and ideologically grounded by the descendants of white Europeans."[68] Don Black has specifically compared his views to those of the Founding Fathers, whom he asserts "did not believe that an integrated black and white society was possible in America."[69] Asked in 2008 by an interviewer for the Italian newspaper la Repubblica whether Stormfront was a 21st-century version of the Ku Klux Klan without the iconography, Black responded affirmatively, though he noted that he would never say so to an American journalist.[70] In addition to its promotion of antisemitism and Holocaust denial, Stormfront has increasingly become active in the propagation of Islamophobia.[71]
Zhou, Yilu; Reid, Edna; Qin, Jialun; Chen, Hsinchun; Lai, Guanpi (2008). "U.S. Domestic Extremist Groups on the Web: Link and Content Analysis"(PDF). University of Arizona. Archived from the original(PDF) on July 9, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2008. Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi's Web site set up in 1995, is considered the first major domestic "hate site" on the World Wide Web because of its depth of content and its presentation style which represented a new period for online right-wing extremism
Eshman, Rob (December 23, 2008). "Jewish Money". Jewish Journal. Archived from the original on July 12, 2017. Earlier this week, when I entered the search terms "Madoff" and "Jewish" into Google, the top responses included JewishJournal.com and stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi Web site.
Levant, Ezra (2009). Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights. McClelland & Stewart. p. 208. ISBN978-0-7710-4619-3. A particularly rough stretch of road is a neo-Nazi website called Stormfront.org.
Kaplan, Jeffrey; Lööw, Heléne, eds. (2002). The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization. Rowman Altamira. p. 224. ISBN978-0-7591-0204-0. Also, Web Pages such as ...'Stormfront'... in addition to racist, anti-Semitic, and neo-Nazi messages and illustrations, provide links...
Katel, Peter (2010). "Hate Groups: Is Extremism on the Rise in the United States?". In CQ Researcher (ed.). Issues in Terrorism and Homeland Security (Second ed.). SAGE Publications. p. 79. ISBN978-1-4129-9201-5. ...a March 13 Web post by Poplawski to the neo-Nazi Web site Stormfront.
Jacobs, Steven Leonard (2006). "Jewish "Officialdom" and The Passion of the Christ: Who Said What and What Did They Say?". In Garber, Zev (ed.). Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and its Implications. Purdue University Press. p. 147. doi:10.2307/j.ctt6wq6d1. ISBN978-1-55753-405-7. JSTORj.ctt6wq6d1. ...Internet websites (e.g. Angry White Female web-page, Vanguard News Network, Christian Identity website, Stormfront Neo-Nazi website, National Alliance website...)
Martin, Andrew; Petro, Patrice, eds. (2006). Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the "War on terror". Rutgers University Press. p. 174. ISBN978-0-8135-3830-3. ...9/11 Internet chat-room discussions, including radical hate-group sites like the neo-Nazi Stormfront.org.
Ryan, Nick (2004). "Thirteen Days". Into a World of Hate: A Journey Among the Extreme Right. New York: Routledge. p. 80. ISBN978-0-415-94922-4. Retrieved July 21, 2008. It was Black who would launch Stormfront, the first major extremist hate site.
Samuels, Shimon (2001). "Applying the Lessons of the Holocaust". In Rosenbaum, Alan S. (ed.). Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide (Second ed.). Westview Press. p. 218. ISBN978-0-8133-3686-2. Retrieved July 21, 2008. It was Holocaust denier and Ku Klux Klan leader, Don Black, who had founded Stormfront (the very first Internet hate site, in 1995)
Bolaffi, Guido; Bracalenti, Raffaele; Braham, Peter H.; Gindro, Sandro, eds. (2003). Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture. Sage Publications. p. 254. ISBN978-0-7619-6900-6. Retrieved July 21, 2008. The first extremist hate site was Stormfront (1995)
^ abSources which describe Stormfront as a white nationalist website include:
Keating, Dan (May 2, 1995). "White supremacists booted from Internet". Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2013. 'I wasn't surprised,' said Don Black of West Palm Beach, who runs the Stormfront World Wide Web site for white nationalists.
Backover, Andrew (November 8, 1999). "Hate sets up shop on Internet". The Denver Post. Archived from the original on August 16, 2017. Nationally, Stormfront, a white nationalist site, is considered the granddaddy of online hatred.
Jean Winegardner (February 17, 1998). "Is Hate Young and New on the Web?". USC Annenberg's Online Journalism Review. Archived from the original on February 14, 2002. Don Black, 44, a white nationalist since the age of 15, runs a site many would put in the hate speech category. He [is] the founder of Stormfront, a white nationalist Web site.
Anchor: Ted Koppel (January 13, 1998). "Hate and the Internet". ABC News Nightline. ABC. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2022. [...] Storm Front, a Web site dedicated to the white nationalist movement [...] Storm Front, a white nationalist Web site [...]
^ abSources which describe Stormfront as a white supremacist website include:
Abel, David Schwab (February 19, 1998). "The Racist Next Door". New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Archived from the original on June 6, 2015. Black's swastika-strewn "Stormfront" – the only white supremacist Website on the Internet before the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
Mooney, Linda A.; Knox, David; Schach, Caroline (2004). "Race and Ethic Relations". Understanding Social Problems. Thomson Wadsworth. p. 181. ISBN978-0-534-62514-6. Retrieved July 19, 2008. White supremacist groups such as Stormfront spread their message of racial hate through their Web site.
Gerstenfeld, Phyllis B. (June 26, 2003). Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies. Sage Publications. p. 227. ISBN978-0-7619-2814-0. A search for the term 'Stormfront' on the American version of Google results in a list of sites with the white supremacist Web site Stormfront first on the list.
Lane, Henry W.; DiStefano, Joseph J.; Maznevski, Martha L. (2005). International Management Behavior: Text, Readings, and Cases (Fifth ed.). Blackwell Publishing. p. 539. ISBN978-1-4051-2671-7. After his release in 1985, Black launched the first white supremacist Web site. Black's "Stormfront" was one of the largest hate sites on the Internet
Jepson, Peter (2003). Tackling Militant Racism. Ashgate Publishing. p. 151. ISBN978-0-7546-2163-8. Stormfront is a white supremacist organisation. footnote 83.
^ abcdefDaniels, Jessie (2008). "Race, Civil Rights and Hate Speech in the Digital Era". In Everett, Anna (ed.). Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media. MIT Press. p. 133. ISBN978-0-262-05091-3. Retrieved July 19, 2008. Black has long been advocate for 'mainstreaming' the white supremacist movement, and the Internet is his preferred medium for doing so. His first and primary presence is Stormfront.org
^Jessup, Michael (2006). "The Sword of Truth in a Sea of Lies: The Ideology of Hate". In Priest, Robert J.; Nieves, Alvaro L. (eds.). This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith. Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. p. 165. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310566.003.0011. ISBN978-0-19-531056-6.
^ abCohen-Almagor, Raphael (November 1, 2005). "Conclusion". The Scope of Tolerance: Studies on the Costs of Free Expression and Freedom of the Press (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 254. doi:10.4324/9780203003411. ISBN978-0-415-35758-6. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
^Pulera, Dominic J. (2004). "White Wrongs". Sharing the Dream: White Males in Multicultural America. London, UK: Continuum. pp. 304–305. ISBN978-0-8264-1643-8. Jeffrey Kaplan ... describes Black's Web site as 'the cyberspace flagship of the racist right.' Indeed, Stormfront.org is the most popular racist site on the Internet
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