Daily Stormer booted; Rhimes joins Netflix; bitcoin tops $4,000

Shonda Rhimes, writer and television producer, speaks Sept. 24, 2016 on the main stage of the 2016 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. (Evan Golub/Zuma Press/TNS) Shonda Rhimes, writer and television producer, speaks Sept. 24, 2016 on the main stage of the 2016 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. (Evan Golub/Zuma Press/TNS) Photo: Evan Golub, TNS Photo: Evan Golub, TNS Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Daily Stormer booted; Rhimes joins Netflix; bitcoin tops $4,000 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

GoDaddy, Google boot neo-Nazi site

Posting an article that mocked Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman killed in Charlottesville, Va., wasn’t exactly a smart business strategy for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi and white supremacy website. Web hosting company GoDaddy gave the site 24 hours to find another domain provider. After it shifted to Google Domains, the Daily Stormer was booted out again. Ben Butler, director of GoDaddy’s digital crimes unit, said in a statement that his company has supported a free and open Internet, but “Dailystormer.com crossed the line and encouraged and promoted violence.”

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$4,000

That’s the milestone that bitcoin passed, at least temporarily going over $4,300 on Monday, on growing optimism that faster transaction times will hasten the spread of the cryptocurrency. The price has gone up more than 300 percent this year.

Netflix, welcome

to Shondaland

In a blow to ABC and Disney, prolific television hitmaker Shonda Rhimes has signed an exclusive overall deal with Netflix, the Los Gatos streaming company said Monday. Rhimes, the creator of such hits as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” for ABC, will bring Shondaland to Netflix in a multiyear deal. Rhimes has been with ABC for more than a decade and has long been one of the biggest names at the network.

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