Posted on 11/15/2020 10:01:12 AM PST by dynachrome
Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term “deplatforming.” Unfortunately the big tech control mechanism to shut down speech & assembly has now arrived on our doorstep.
One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received the following notification:
…”given the incompatibility between your site’s content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd.
What does this mean? It means CTH is being kicked-off the WordPress website hosting platform because the content of our research and discussion does not align with the ideology of those who define what is acceptable speech and what is not.
What was our violation? After ten years of brutally honest discussion, opinion, deep research and crowdsourcing work -with undeniable citations on the events we outline- there is no cited violation of any term of service because CTH has never violated one.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
The words in my head are “Breach of Contract” and “Fraud”
Treehouse had an agreement with Wordpress. Wordpress provided communication resources to Treehouse, and was, at least, able to gather usage data on Treehouse. That is an agreement to exchange things of value, on agreed terms. That’s a contract. If Wordpress cuts Treehouse off, on the pretext that Treehouse breached the agreement, when Treehouse didn’t breach the agreement, that’s breach of contract, and fraud. Someone with legal training could do better than I, as to whether anything can be done with this.
Newsmax is on YouTube as of Sunday 11-15-20 11:20AM MST
https://t.co/I2DK6Ix8fF I looked more into Smartmatic.. Guess who they Partner with?! DLA PIPER.. Doug EMHOFF works there.. KAMALA HARRIS' HUSBAND! IS This the connection that @RudyGiuliani was talking about?!— Chrissy (@CAS2328) November 15, 2020
If Biden takes office, I believe we are going to see more and more of these actions being taken against conservative websites with nobody left to fight for them........
He has a very good site - that remark is uncalled for.
Just scrolled through your posting history...
You’re pretty worthless....
13. Termination
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Please post a concise definition of “deplatforming”
The dangers of playing in someone else’s sandbox.
Check out his posting history...Go back a couple pages and look at the dates...
He can’t even keep up with FR....
Seven years ago a former friend posted on Facebook that she wished all Republicans eliminated. That was when Obama was President! I âunfriendedâ her. She hasnât tried to contact me (even though we were friends outside of Facebook.) Iâm sure she meant it. I can only imagine what sheâs saying now.
They won’t host your website anymore. Demonetizing is when youtube doesn’t allow you to make money off of subscribers to your channel. (I think)
Contract? Wordpress says it is justifiable as the Treehouse violated their TOS.
First Amendment needs to be “extended” to include online platforms. Especially hosting services which are nothing but a utility. See if the local electric utility can cut off a customer because of his views.
I may or may not agree with everything that Sundance has to say, but I fully support his right to say it.
On another thread just now he suggested going to Political Insider for more information. I tweaked him for promoting ‘clickbait’. ;)
Awww. Sundress will have to post clickbait from somewhere else.
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You should be appalled *anyone* is deplatformed regardless of what they say. If you approve of deplatforming because of wrongthink, perhaps youâre next.
Here comes the purges by the hosting providers.
Yes I just saw NewsMaxTV is ‘live’ but notifications are not being send out to subscribers. Their last live cast was Michelle Malkin 18 hours ago.
Strange.
NewsMax itself is a different story. (NewsMax vs. NewsMaxTV)
My subscription said there was no content on NewsMax. I checked because usually I receive several notifications each day when new content is up. And I noticed there were no notifications in the past 24 hours so I checked and saw their content had been wiped. But NewsMaxTV is also not updating although they are marked live even though there is no live content at this time.
Jane, it’s good to support conservative causes but there is something a bit strange about the Treehouse. Early on it was a small operation run by a local guy with good info from local LEOs. It seemed to focus a lot on local crime and a lot of black/white issues. Practically overnight the quality and focus of the writing changed dramatically.
If you weren’t on the site for a while you would not have noticed how a single guy who had been a manager of a produce department of a grocery store all of a sudden had insight into the workings and news of the executive branch of our government. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed reading some things over there but I wonder who is really running the operation there and why.
Any conservative on ALL hosting providers will eventually receive the same fate.
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