Posted on 01/09/2021 8:02:25 AM PST by USA Conservative
“Time to fight back! Twitter is going to get sued out of existence. “
Fighting back must needs to be more than clamping down on Twitter and Facebook.
First there must be alternative posting sites to compete with Twitter and Facebook.
Second the companies that host the sites must not have arbitrary power to shut down sites.
Who is it that hosts Freerepublic? Haven’t there been concerns that they might them (us) off?
Yes, interesting change
Not gonna happen.
Yes, and when I go to sign up, all I see is a blank screen.
Something strange is happening.
Maybe Trump should buy some network airtime and speak directly to the American people. Keep the grievances about the stolen election to a minimum.
Instead, talk about the challenges we now face. Perhaps he might have time to set up a way for the American people to contact him directly. And tell us about it.
I think FR is private; hence the donation drives.
I don’t think anyone controls FR, except the mods.
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Twitter/Facebook/etc have committed suicide by their own will.
They don’t believe in Free Speech and are guilty of colluding with treason. So be it.
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“I don’t think anyone controls FR, except the mods.”
I’m not clear on this, but there’s such a thing as a web server. They can be small. My brother has one.
Ordinarily, different folks like Freerepublic have their “web page”. It is hosted on a web server. Maybe Freerepublic has its own web server. A web server is a computer running software that makes it a web server..
Then there’s the matter of being in the “phone directory” so that when you type in “www.freerepublic.com” the phone directory (called a DNS server) converts “freerepublic.com” to the IP address which is a number and is the address that the internet (routers, etc.) understand.
There’s an organization that manages the names like “freerepublic.com” and also the IP addresses. Management is needed so the names and IP addresses are kept unique.
My point is that that organization is a “big brother” and theoretically could keep “freerepublic.com” out of its lookup mechanisms.
If they did then the freerepublic people would have to give us their ip address so we access their site directly.
Or, that organization I suppose could not even allow freerepublic to have an IP address that worked.
Then freerepublic would be completely shut out of the internet.
Thus big brother controls internet.
get off of there...jeesh
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