Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Pepe the Frog creator gets neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer to remove (nearly) all Pepe images

After a few long years, Pepe the Frog is finally beginning to fade from the racist internet. With the help of a team of intellectual property lawyers, cartoonist Matt Furie has successfully petitioned The Daily Stormer, a popular, Trump-loving, neo-Nazi website, to remove almost all references to or images of his long-appropriated character. “We had seen for a while that they had been using Pepe images in a few places,” one of Furie’s lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WCPHD) said, according to a Motherboard report. “The problem was that they would be up and then their entire site will be down and move somewhere else and reorganize. The reason it takes us longer on this and some of the others is the way their website...

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