On Friday September 1st, 2017 the United States Government violated my right to freedom of speech by revoking my registration of the fucknazis.us domain name. One year later, I've regained control of my domain, affirming my right to say FUCK NAZIS . Here's what happened, and why you should care.
In August of 2017 I broke ground a new project to neutralize the normalization of Nazism and White Supremacist rhetoric in the American public sphere. The project was a fundraiser of digital collectible lapel pins on the Ethereum network with funds raised earmarked to support those who would be disenfranchised by the increase in Nazi rhetoric. An archive of the original project site lives here .
I chose to launch the fundraiser on a cryptocurrency rather than on a platform like GoFundMe because I wanted to both dispel media fueled myths that the cryptocurrency world was heavily neo-Nazi and to avoid unjust shutdowns of my message. Despite being a Bitcoiner and an advisor to Stellar, I chose Ethereum because Ethereum's token model was the easiest to work with at the time, and because I perceived the Ethereum community of late summer 2017 to be the most likely to participate in a fundraiser like Fuck