In recent days, large tech companies like GoDaddy, Google and Airbnb have taken action to remove white nationalists and neo-Nazis from their services. It started in 2015 as a chat app for video gamers, where fans of games like World of Warcraft could form teams and talk about strategy. White nationalists used alt-right Discord servers to form car pools to Charlottesville and arrange local lodging. Others took the view that since these rooms were private, Discord’s responsibility extended only as far as removing illegal content when it was flagged to them. Just hours after Discord shut down their servers, several alt-right users were already attempting to form new rooms, and others were suggesting alternative chat apps that might be friendlier to their views.

Source: New York Times August 15, 2017 20:37 UTC