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1 posted on 01/11/2021 1:47:27 PM PST by A.M. Smith
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“About an hour ago the most popular rifle forum ar15.com went offline. Someone said Google was blocking their DNS.””

Did you verify before posting?


2 posted on 01/11/2021 1:49:37 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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About an hour ago the most popular rifle forum ar15.com went offline. Someone said Google was blocking their DNS.

Site seems fine now. Google can't block DNS requests for a specific website unless they're operating the DNS.
3 posted on 01/11/2021 1:50:17 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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My dad talked about those BBS’s - bulletin boards where people would have their own chat rooms on their home computers. I wonder if it’ll go back to that.


4 posted on 01/11/2021 1:51:29 PM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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Times have sure shifted. High tech lynching at its finest. Remember the old days when they used to just shoot up ball fields and mrc outlets?


5 posted on 01/11/2021 1:51:40 PM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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https://www.primerpeak.com/breaking-arfcom-taken-down-by-godaddy/


6 posted on 01/11/2021 1:51:45 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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Funny that you mentioned this.
I have been trying to get onto rtntv (YouTube conservative alternative) for the past hour and it just keeps loading.

I guess we’ll see..


9 posted on 01/11/2021 1:53:19 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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They would come for Free Republic as well but they realize we are all a bunch of old cranks that will die soon anyhow.


14 posted on 01/11/2021 1:56:59 PM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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All of the conservative websites that don’t have their own servers are probably going to be shut down.
Of course this is an opportunity for anyone who can set up a server farm on a backbone to host these sites.


16 posted on 01/11/2021 2:00:39 PM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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Biden did promise a dark winter


18 posted on 01/11/2021 2:04:49 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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My wife is a Rush 24/7 subscriber and after his show today wanted to read the transcripts, the site was down for her.

I tried it and it was down for me...

About 15 minutes later I tried rushlimbauh.com again and this time the page came up....

But I just tried before make this post and it’s down again.....

Not sure what’s going on, but rushlimbaugh.com could be in the sights of the liberal mob and about to be eliminated...


19 posted on 01/11/2021 2:08:16 PM PST by srmanuel
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The Second City Cop Blog went invitation only overnight, no one knows why. The last thing I read was linked from FR about Apple censorship.


21 posted on 01/11/2021 2:09:43 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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Practically I think this marks a true separation of conservative platforms into self sufficient hosting, if only because they cannot survive otherwise.

Obviously, those same hosting services will have to be made stable as well.

Look for a financial takedown of companies hosting conservative websites.


22 posted on 01/11/2021 2:10:28 PM PST by Bayard
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My question is why? What’s in it for any business to lose customers? For any news outlet to lose viewers? For any publicly traded company to tick off their investors? For that matter, what’s in it for investors to excuse this fiduciary misbehavior?

Does it really boil down to hatred? I think that answer is too easy. Is there a cost/benefit analysis that predicts a large payout down the line? Large enough to justify losing half your customers?

Used to be that performers, as a rule, tried to stay apolitical. There was never any sense in alienating half your audience. What’s changed?

27 posted on 01/11/2021 2:15:35 PM PST by yeff (Yuor biran has teh alibtiy to mkae oderr out of caohs)
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businesses to stop using

amazon
godaddy
twitter
facebook

keep adding your own


31 posted on 01/11/2021 2:22:06 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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All of a sudden all of my posts at Breitbart are being held up for review. When this started happening, I made a very short post that contained nothing whatsoever that would be controversial, just to test the system, and it happened again.


39 posted on 01/11/2021 2:35:29 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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43 posted on 01/11/2021 2:47:02 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Traitor Jo(k)e thinks he is loved by the people. LOL!)
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The democrats cannot allow free speech. Then people could find out what they really did with this election.


62 posted on 01/11/2021 3:37:04 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (EQ)
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Conservative talk radio, too.

1570 AM in Flint, Michigan (Cumulus owned) switched from conservative talk to oldies music Jan. 1st. Mark Levin was on it and others.

I’m sure there are many others.

They’ll leave Rush alone (bad optics to silence him) until he passes, then fill his slot with a faux moderate. Or flip the station to not talk.

They truly fear our words.


68 posted on 01/11/2021 4:02:31 PM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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