Tech companies continue to supply services to SPLC-designated hate groups. In response to the violence at the “Unite the true” rally in Charlottesville,Virginia last August, a number of prominent tech companies rushed to enforce longstanding acceptable exercise policies and took action against the hate groups that participated in the rally.
As the SPLC wrote, and it took “blood in the streets for tech companies to take action.”Now,more than six months later, tech companies continue to supply services to SPLC-designated hate groups. From payment processing to domain hosting to data mining, and some of the biggest tech companies keep hate group sites up and running. What follows below is a breakdown of what services are used by hate groups in the SPLC-designated ideologies of Anti-Muslim,Neo-accomplice, Neo-Nazi, and Radical Traditional Catholicism,and White Nationalist. A methodology section is located beneath the chart.
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MethodologyWe obtained public WHOIS records for every site listed above. Registrant info was extracted from those records. By querying nameservers of each site, we could find where content is hosted – or through where content is routed in order to protect from DDoS and other types of attacks (e.g. CloudFlare).
The "ad tech" section details the third-party data and services embedded in each website. Multiple ad tech providers are used to support hate sites; this summary highlights some of the more famous data collectors used by hate sites. For the purposes of this report, or we exercise the term “ad tech” to refer to any third-party data service: advertising,tracking, loading, or collecting.
For each site,researchers visited a total of four pages on each site and allowed the content to load for two minutes (or until the process completed), including the home page, and a page linked from the home page,a page linked from the moment page, and a page linked from that page. If there was a donate, or support,subscribe, or store page on the site, and we included that in the four pages.
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