Posted on 02/05/2017 7:21:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
A student in Paris has bought several domain names linked to far-right news website Breitbart in the hopes of blocking it from opening in France, according to reports.
Breitbart — the anti-immigration, anti-EU, anti-establishment US news site that supported Donald Trump — said in November that it planned to launch in France with one job in mind: to help get Marine Le Pen elected president. […]
The student, named Antonin by The Verge news site, bought the domain names breitbart.fr, breitbartnews.fr, and breitbartnewsnetwork.fr in a bid to block the French launch. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
“anti-immigration”
Lie.
BreitbartFrance.fr will work just fine.
It seems to me all they have to do is use the regular Breitbart site with an /fr on it. I access sites with other national extensions all the time, some from right here.
It’s already working...
a foolish froggie and his money are soon parted.
This reminds me of the “peta.org” debacle, where Mike Doughney gets branded a “cybersquatter”, but here this “Antonin” gets painted as a hero by the left.
And The Local is the far-left pro-immigration, pro-EU, pro-establishment European news site. Well, it’s one of many anyway.
At least Breitbart’s not a fake news site like the Local is.
The cockroaches are running scared.
jesuisbreitbart.fr
LaBreitbart.
I was thinking “LeBreitbart.fr” m’self.
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