[Sense]

Relevant context here:

White House: Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/

Washington Post: Trump signs order that could punish social media companies for how they police content, drawing criticism and doubts of legality

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/28/trump-social-media-executive-order/

Microsoft: A Twenty-First Century Framework for Digital Privacy

https://constitutioncenter.org/digital-privacy/secret-searches-and-digital-civil-liberties

Glenn Greenwald: How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

Please add what you can.

I'd like to generate enough information to enable filing a class action lawsuit that does not depend on any "official" support.

Section 230 does not apply liability limits to companies that are interfering with communications at this level.

[Gene Eric]

How often have you been experiencing connectivity issues to this exact address?

https://freerepublic.com

[Mariner]

It’s likely your ISP.
The backbone does not filter for anything.
Or somebody injected code onto your PC.

30yrs Network engineering, security and project management.

[Spirochete]

Use http://209.157.64.200/ as you Free Republic bookmark.

Use these OpenDNS IP adresses for DNS in you network connection properties: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

[Sense]

Have additional reason to suspect that the issue is both imposition of an ISP level interference...

and Linux hacking of repository management that enables direct intrusion into systems control... ie, external agents trespassing on local systems to impose altered kernel level external access and more...

[Pollard]

Old version of windows?

malware

[Intar]

I checked FR’s DNS and it is resolving fine and is not listed under any known blacklists. You can use the ip address 45.79.56.181, however it will result in cert errors since a ssl cert cannot be issued to an ip address; fqdns only.

[Don W]

Website Name:
www.freerepublic.comURL Checked:
no responseResponse Time:
~2 days 2 hoursDown For:
DOWN
Freerepublic.com is DOWN for everyone.
It is not just you. The server is not responding...

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[jimjohn]

to know if its being blocked by your isp, try using a vpn then trying again.

Also clear your browser cache.

private mail me for a deep dive.

- jimjohn

[Steve Van Doorn]

Here are some of the guys that I'm aware of that have already found another server in Serbia and more
Track ISP's during the election connected to the voting machines
https://twitter.com/We_Have_Risen

Serbia story
https://twitter.com/jessiprincey/status/1329525675666051073

Programmer with great info including a major assignment change to the US supreme court today (Roberts was moved)
https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1329894628678660096

Helpful information
https://twitter.com/ARedHatter
https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma

Programmer also found the original developer of Dominion is from Founder Group is a subsidiary of Peking University. Likely ties with Carlyle Group.
https://twitter.com/BenKTallmadge/status/1329776217013198849

Organizer of this group (He already has contact with Trumps legal team)
https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ

[stylin19a]

Something like this happened to me some time ago on my desktop PC and any dvice I used on my home network.
FR went down for a while (days?)

When it came back, I was whacked. So were a few other people. We were all from different parts of the country and had different ISPs.

I have no idea how far back to go to find the discussions here about it.

All the site checkers said FR was down. (It wasn’t)
I was able to access FR only thru a VPN.
(I could access FR on my cell phone and my laptop if I was logged on to an Xfinity hotspot, but not through my home network)

I tried everything.
Different browsers(alot of them)
Flushed DNS Caches til I was blue in the face.
Powered down\unplugged router\modem.
I changed DNS to use Google Public DNS.
I tried every “how to” I could find.
Ran Malwarebytes and anything else I had handy.

My pings to FR died after about 8 hops.
Had ISP (Comcast) ping FreeRepublic was ok on their end.

Nada...

What threw me the most was no browser worked. But the VPN worked regardless of browser.
It had to be hardware.
I ended up buying a new router, based on an obscure answer to a like question about this problem...
and that seemed to be the solution.
Whether it actually was or not, I don’t know.

(Figured I might as well upgrade everything - all CAT 7 cables, upgraded modem, ethernet controller and now running 1 Gbps and download speed is tickling 400 Mbps (though I am paying for 600)

If you have a different router you can try, that might be a start.

Good Luck...

[stylin19a]

I had the problem back on 02/23/2020. Looks like I started getting timeouts...and FR was down for awhile around then.

Here’s some of that conversation

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3815009/posts?page=7926#7926

I was getting help from this FR

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3815009/posts?page=7931#7931
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3815009/posts?page=8116#8116
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3815009/posts?page=8129#8129

good luck