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marble falls

(57,099 posts)
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:05 AM Apr 2018

BANKKKRUPT: Stormfront, the Internets Oldest White Supremacist Site, Says Its Going Broke

BANKKKRUPT
Stormfront, the Internet’s Oldest White Supremacist Site, Says It’s Going Broke
The hate forum is making less than $2,000 a month, and insiders claim its main founder just retired. It’s the latest blow to white supremacists online.
Kelly Weill

04.10.18 5:03 AM ET

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“Our contributions have once again totaled less than $2,000, which is not enough to cover our basic server and radio bills, and this month we no longer have enough personal money to make up the difference,” Black wrote last week in a post first spotted by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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“My plan is to shut down the main server on the 6th, backing everything up offsite first. I hope to also move the entire 50gb database to our much smaller, secondary server,” he wrote. “This will be difficult because of the size of this site, and that server is not nearly adequate to run everything. But I hope it will be enough to allow access to Sustaining Members, but probably not to other users or guests.”

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“All of the years that Don posted how much was needed to run this site and all the months that SF didn’t receive enough donations. That difference was made up from Chloe Black's income. She is now recently retired and deserves to spend her time with her grandbabies. This situation combined with litigation from when SF was shut down last August, Don has more bills and less revenue to run the site.”

Chloe Black, who could not be reached for comment on Monday, has a long history of involvement in the white supremacist movement. Chloe was previously married to former KKK leader David Duke, whom she met at a White Youth Alliance college gathering in the 1970s, and later divorced him to marry Black, another former KKK leader and neo-Nazi who was convicted in 1981 of attempting an armed overthrow of the predominantly black island nation of Dominica.

“But Don Black — who lives and operates Stormfront out of a house owned entirely by Chloe and valued at about half a million dollars — is apparently unemployed, although he claims to do some Internet consulting work,” the SPLC wrote in 2008, when it was revealed that Chloe had been doing public relations work, including for a school that focused on black and Latino children.

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Black isn’t just paying Stormfront’s expenses. A search of web domains registered under his email address reveals he’s squatting on a number of web addresses, at unknown cost to him. Among those addresses is MartinLutherKing.org, MLKing.org, a few URLs with variations on “white nationalism,” and whitesingles.com. The Martin Luther King-related addresses used to host racist content, but now appear defunct after a Daily Beast report earlier this year. Whitesingles.com redirects to Stormfront’s dating page.

Black is also squatting on DerekBlack.com, the name of his son who famously disavowed his family’s racist views after President Donald Trump’s election, and now speaks against white supremacy. From 2010 until 2013, Derek and his father ran “The Derek Black Show,” a radio program Black paid $600 per week to broadcast on AM radio.


The radio program, alone, cost Black thousands of dollars each month, on top of the costs of running Stormfront. Five years later, according to Black’s plea for donations, the white supremacist site doesn’t even generate enough to fund the old radio show.

Kelly Weill
kelly.weill@thedailybeast.com

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BANKKKRUPT: Stormfront, the Internets Oldest White Supremacist Site, Says Its Going Broke (Original Post) marble falls Apr 2018 OP
No problem. Breitbart will pick up where these other specimens left off. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Apr 2018 #1
This is what happens when you let anybody in a white hood write checks Pope George Ringo II Apr 2018 #2
i get requests for money every damn day...question is whether this report is honest dembotoz Apr 2018 #3
are they sending a hint that they need funding from Russia NewJeffCT Apr 2018 #4
They have to, Mrs Black is cutting the money off. marble falls Apr 2018 #5
Stormfront, funded by . . . the Blacks (literally) . . . . hatrack Apr 2018 #6
Doancha just love the English language? My urologist's name 'Wang'. marble falls Apr 2018 #8
Hah! Could be worse - "Dr. Richard Peter", for example . . . hatrack Apr 2018 #13
You're right about the lawfirms, there are quite a few odd ones. marble falls Apr 2018 #16
is Chloe Black NewJeffCT Apr 2018 #10
She was the ex-Mrs David Duke and became Mrs Black when she divorced DD and married Mr Stormfront. marble falls Apr 2018 #12
Was that an improvement or a step down? hatrack Apr 2018 #14
I guess racists all look alike? marble falls Apr 2018 #17
More of a lateral move mythology Apr 2018 #20
If Trump wasn't otherwise distracted he could do some fundraising to save it. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2018 #7
Through his lawyer, no doubt! marble falls Apr 2018 #11
Wow. Actual economic anxiety. Orsino Apr 2018 #9
trump might make them the new "PBS." Hoyt Apr 2018 #15
.........But her emails SummerSnow Apr 2018 #18
Hmm... Catherine Vincent Apr 2018 #19
I like to see this as a good sign. mountain grammy Apr 2018 #21
Oh it is a good sign. And Sinclair is in the headlights. They won't be getting off easy. marble falls Apr 2018 #22
IIRC, Sinclair has piles of money. They bought up many local markets... Hekate Apr 2018 #26
I wish Shelly were alive to hear this! Behind the Aegis Apr 2018 #23
Let's crowdfund a buyout gratuitous Apr 2018 #24
Meanwhile our pure-hearted Admins seem to be doing okay. A better business model & clean living... Hekate Apr 2018 #25
I don't know anyone that will lose sleep over it. appleannie1943 Apr 2018 #27
What happened? Did their Russian funding dry up? TheDebbieDee Apr 2018 #28
I think mom's throwing dad out of the basement. Maybe he'll get a real paying job. 3rd shift dish... marble falls Apr 2018 #29

dembotoz

(16,808 posts)
3. i get requests for money every damn day...question is whether this report is honest
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:14 AM
Apr 2018

is the organization broke or does the owner want a new sailboat....only time will tell

hatrack

(59,587 posts)
13. Hah! Could be worse - "Dr. Richard Peter", for example . . .
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:27 AM
Apr 2018

Law firms can still get really Dickensian sometimes. There's a firm (still there, but now with a different name) in Lawrence KS. When I lived there years ago, it was called Petefish, immel & Heeb.

Catherine Vincent

(34,490 posts)
19. Hmm...
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 10:00 AM
Apr 2018

Maybe they should contact that Australian that pocked money from the fraudulent black lives matter facebook page.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
26. IIRC, Sinclair has piles of money. They bought up many local markets...
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 03:50 PM
Apr 2018

...instead of putting all their eggs in one basket.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
23. I wish Shelly were alive to hear this!
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 03:37 PM
Apr 2018

Many here probably don't know, but the late Du'er, AlienGirl, routinely took on Don Black. She was unafraid of his bigoted ass. I was always afraid that POS would do something to her because he did threaten her more than a few times. Hard to believe she has been gone for six years.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
24. Let's crowdfund a buyout
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 03:40 PM
Apr 2018

And turn the tables on Black. If he's holding MLK-themed web addresses, we could turn Stormfront into something that would really chap his pasty white hide.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
25. Meanwhile our pure-hearted Admins seem to be doing okay. A better business model & clean living...
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 03:49 PM
Apr 2018

...will do that for you.

marble falls

(57,099 posts)
29. I think mom's throwing dad out of the basement. Maybe he'll get a real paying job. 3rd shift dish...
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 04:31 PM
Apr 2018

washer at Waffle House.

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