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SPLC: Satellite Feed Drops Stormfront and David Duke Radio
April 10, 2015 - 9:59 am
This past Thursday, both Stormfront Radio and neo-Nazi David Dukes radio program were dropped by their satellite provider. toplogoOn his radio broadcast yesterday, former Klan leader Don Black, the host of Stormfront Radio, confirmed that his satellite access had been cancelled and blamed that cancellation on Jewish supremacists.
The cancellation comes in the wake of a major Southern Poverty Law Center exposé of Stormfront Radio, which documented the programs extensive anti-Semitism and racism. The SPLCs report also revealed that the show was being streamed into Europe via a French-owned satellite, Hot Bird 13A. That satellite is owned by Eutelsat, a Paris-based corporation.
The SPLC contacted Eutelsat to ask them whether their broadcast of hate radio into Europe might not violate various European countries hate speech laws. The company told SPLC that it was investigating and, soon after, the satellite contract was apparently dropped.
The American company that worked as the middleman (or reseller) with Eutelsat to put Don Blacks material onto the Hot Bird is Global Star Radio Network (GSR), based in Orrtanna, Pa., and owned by Todd Waite. As of today, GSRs website is no longer showing Stormfront Radio or David Dukes show as part of its programming, though both shows were listed yesterday. In addition, Hot Bird 13A is no longer advertised as one of GSRs satellites. When called, Todd Waite refused to comment on the record about what exactly had happened.
Link: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/04/10/satellite-feed-drops-stormfront-and-david-duke-radio/
This past Thursday, both Stormfront Radio and neo-Nazi David Dukes radio program were dropped by their satellite provider. toplogoOn his radio broadcast yesterday, former Klan leader Don Black, the host of Stormfront Radio, confirmed that his satellite access had been cancelled and blamed that cancellation on Jewish supremacists.
The cancellation comes in the wake of a major Southern Poverty Law Center exposé of Stormfront Radio, which documented the programs extensive anti-Semitism and racism. The SPLCs report also revealed that the show was being streamed into Europe via a French-owned satellite, Hot Bird 13A. That satellite is owned by Eutelsat, a Paris-based corporation.
The SPLC contacted Eutelsat to ask them whether their broadcast of hate radio into Europe might not violate various European countries hate speech laws. The company told SPLC that it was investigating and, soon after, the satellite contract was apparently dropped.
The American company that worked as the middleman (or reseller) with Eutelsat to put Don Blacks material onto the Hot Bird is Global Star Radio Network (GSR), based in Orrtanna, Pa., and owned by Todd Waite. As of today, GSRs website is no longer showing Stormfront Radio or David Dukes show as part of its programming, though both shows were listed yesterday. In addition, Hot Bird 13A is no longer advertised as one of GSRs satellites. When called, Todd Waite refused to comment on the record about what exactly had happened.
Link: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/04/10/satellite-feed-drops-stormfront-and-david-duke-radio/
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SPLC: Satellite Feed Drops Stormfront and David Duke Radio (Original Post)
inanna
Apr 2015
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Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)1. Them's the breaks!
They will survive, unfortunately. The market for their brand of hate will move around.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)2. Better late than never. Big step forward. n/t
shenmue
(38,506 posts)3. Huzzah!