Thanks for the back story.
In hindsight, would you do anything different? Hire more lawyers? Bring on more moderators?
Even with the advantage of hindsight there really wasn't anything different we could have done. The influx of federal government agents that hit us in 2007, when this all began, shows pretty clearly that this was a government operation. Government fears and loathes what it can't control. Canadians are being attacked on two major fronts by our federal government, we are being spied on by our government and they have operatives using the courts to shutdown websites. They can't outlaw the internet but they can make people too afraid to speak their opinions online.
And it's working. When we first opened Free Dominion we had competitors who really wanted to take our place as the leading conservative forum in Canada. We fought long and hard to maintain our leadership but there were always people waiting in the wings to dethrone us. Now Free Dominion has been censored but nobody is stepping up to fill the void, Canadians are too afraid of their government to take the chance that they will be put through what we are enduring.
I once saw some old black and white footage of a battlefield that appeared to be in Africa. I have no idea who the combatants were or if there were good guys and bad guys. At the edge of the battle there were about 50 prisoners surrounded by their captors. The prisoners were sitting on the ground and if one of them spoke a word or even raised his eyes he was instantly and savagely beaten with rifle butts. It didn't take long before all the captives knew what not to do and soon the beating became unnecessary.
This is what our government is trying to do to Canadians, make us so afraid that we will not speak out. Like the captives in the footage, most of us are learning pretty quickly to stay silent.
I guess Connie and I are just slow learners.