White nationalists who got a $2.5m payout from UNC abuse the DMCA to censor lawyer's trove of documents about it

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This “Silent Sam” statue, was it a special custom Silent Sam?

Apparently yes.

As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed

Nope. He was/is a custom job which is in part why the 190x Jim Crow Era Daughters had trouble raising the funds to get him made. UNC, at the time, paid the difference. That’s part of the argument that UDC never really owned him in the first place. Establishing a Confederate monument at a Southern university became a goal of the North Carolina chapter of the [United Daughters of the Confederacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy) (UDC) in 1907. UNC approved the g…