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Meet The Man Behind Epik, The Tech Firm Keeping Far-Right Websites Alive By Bobby Allyn  February 8, 2021 When websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to one company for a lifeline. That company is run by Rob Monster, a 53-year-old Dutch-American. “If you wanted to cast a villain who was going to be the Lex Luther of the Internet, Rob Monster is about as good as it gets,” he joked during a recent interview at his lakeside home in the former logging community of Sammamish, Wash., outside of Seattle. Monst...

NPR's Bobby Allyn speaks with Rob Monster, who sees his domain-registrar company Epik as a counter to Big Tech. He welcomes views banned on most other parts of the internet.

Exiled from social media mainstream, Trump and his followers will find life different at the extreme corners of the Web Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell © Provided by The Washington Post There will always be ways for Trump, and everyone else, to keep making their views known on the Internet. Parler is scrambling its way back online after its unceremonious purging last week, and an ever-growing list of alternatives are offering similar opportunities for online conversation that is moderated lightly or not at all. But those purged from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube will find t...

Parler's Back from the Dead With a Domain Registered to Epik, Home to Gab and Daily Stormer Photo: Hollie Adams (Getty Images) Parler came back online Sunday with a defiant message to the social network’s “lovers and haters.” Its new host appears to be Epik, a domain name registrar that has harbored other deplatformed cesspools like Gab, the Daily Stormer, and 8kun predecessor’s 8chan, thus cementing Parler, the self-proclaimed “world’s premier free speech platform,” in the online shit hole hall of fame. Advertisement Amazon Web Services gave Parler the boot on Jan. 10 in the w...

De-platformed sites are finding safe harbour with a Washington based web hosting company. But for how long? 18 January 2021 • 5:52pm A man wearing a "Trump 2020" sweatshirt uses his mobile phone during a "Stop the Steal" protest outside Milwaukee Central Count the day after Milwaukee County finished counting absentee ballots Credit: BING GUAN/Reuters A former Pampers nappy executive has transformed his small web hosting company into a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content.  Monster's domain registrar Epik, which describes...