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Article snippet: It took the death of a young woman at the hands of one of the neo-Nazis she was protesting to force the ever-expanding media universe to face a question it has been evading for years: Where’s the line? Google, Twitter and the web hosting company GoDaddy appeared to find it this week when they shut down The Daily Stormer, an American Nazi “publication,” after it mocked the peace activist Heather Heyer, who was killed Saturday at a white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Va. But The Daily Stormer had been comfortably operating in the established online matrix since it was founded in 2013. The Daily Caller, the conservative online publication that has the Fox News host Tucker Carlson as a founder, appeared to identify the line, too. This week it took down a truly vile video it produced in January celebrating motorists who had plowed into “liberal protesters,” advising its readers to “study the technique.” (The Daily Caller said on Thursday that the video was a young videographer’s “clumsy attempt at creating some levity” at a tense time, but added that any suggestion that the video had a role in causing “Nazis to be stupid, violent maniacs is patently absurd.”) The Fox News website Fox Nation, which apparently liked the video enough to repost it, also took it down this week, calling it “inappropriate” and expressing regret. There were the online platforms like Facebook, Reddit and, as my colleague Kevin Roose reported this week, Discord, which shut thems... Link to the full article to read more