Posted on 01/14/2021 3:19:46 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
CHICAGO — Most Chicago cops don’t talk to reporters. They don’t trust politicians. And they certainly have a lot of opinions.
It’s why for the past 15 years the “Second City Cop” police blog has been must-read for many Chicagoans who want to have a better understanding about crime and justice in their city.
It’s also why the blog has bene a thorn in the side of police brass for years and there have been various attempts to identify the operator.
When the chronicle of cop life disappeared from public view on the internet a few days ago some took to social media concerned that “big tech” had pulled the plug.
“We have taken no action,” a spokesperson for Google, which owns the Blogspot platform used by Second City Cop told WGN. “We see that the blog is still live though the readership access is ‘private.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at wgntv.com ...
There is currently a statement from SCCB on the HeyJackass home page.
https://heyjackass.com/enlightening-commentary/statement-from-second-city-cop/
Statement From Second City Cop
Posted on January 13, 2021
SCC explains the decision to shut down their website:
Well, this was certainly a long time coming. Fifteen years, over 22,000 posts, almost two million comments and God knows how many attempts to silence us. But it might finally be over…at least this version of it.
Over the weekend, we received information from a contact at Google that internal chat/e-mails led them to believe that certain precautions we had taken over the years had been breached by Google. We had gotten similar warnings from others in the past, and we dealt with or ignored them as the situation warranted. But this one was different.
And this one – on the heels of Big Tech’s wholesale attack on the President, Parler and center-right to right-leaning authors, politicians and voices – pointed to a countdown that had far less time than we had thought. Most likely, far less time than you think, too. The blacklisting has begun, even if you won’t see it. You should – the wholesale abandonment of the President, the denunciations, the, “I wasn’t really with him” self-serving statements. Sound familiar? It should…if you have any recollections of the show trials behind the Iron Curtain, in Southeast Asia, in assorted Middle East kleptocracies.
Disavowal and re-education is on tap. What Senator McCarthy is remembered for – “Are you now or have you ever been…” has been twisted, refined (Bake that cake!), and exacerbated (Parler is only the first of many). They don’t want “unity.” They want Compliance and as the last fifteen years have shown, we aren’t really good at compliance. The amount of personal data available to “woke companies” who would deny commerce or service based on beliefs, contributions, investments (not Green enough!), social media posting, employment (cops not welcome here), bumper stickers – Have you heard of Operation Choke Point? Look it up and imagine it drilled down to individual citizens. Orwell’s 1984? It’s here.
In closing, we’d just like to thank a few people:
Phil Cline – without you banning us from Department computers, we wouldn’t have jumped from 3,000 visits a day to over 30,000 unique daily visits. You, more than anyone, assisted in our success. Some days it topped 50,000, but we thank you for the ten-fold increase. Too bad you can’t ban the next generation SCC;
HeyJackass.com – the only true source of crime numbers. We know you’ll ferret out a few more hidden bodies to put 2020 over 800. We guarantee that they’re out there. Groot has ordered the Department to sit on over 20 of them;
CWB blog – you are what reporting should be in Chicago. We don’t know your operation, if it’s phone calls or emails or actual feet on the street, but you do more to create informed citizens than major newspapers and broadcast entities;
The Chaplains – Fr. Brandt has done and continues to do God’s work. It is the only police charity we contribute to because we know exactly where every dollar is going. And there isn’t a finer man of G-d alive than Rabbi Wolfe. When we hear he’s in the building, around the District or on a crime scene, we’re getting a handshake and our candy – it’s like a scavenger hunt. The rest are decent people, too. Sorry we only ever got you the $50 from WGN Padre. Maybe others contributed anonymously, but that’s between them and God.
Our readers. Without you, we would have been nothing. Even last week, we still posted over 90% of comments that didn’t run afoul of the guidelines, and in 15 years, we only had permanent bans on perhaps thirty names.
We have a few hundred e-mails waiting for us, begging for info, and all we can say right now is, “We don’t know.” We don’t know if this is it, we don’t know if we’ll return. We don’t know what Big Tech has in store for us and the political winds are not fortuitous. We are exploring options and we’ll leave it at that.
In the meantime, everyone reading should make these sites the first place you go for news and educated opinion:
Ace of Spades blog – the smartest blog in the world right now
Instapundit / PJ Media – the Godfather of Libertarian blogging
Breitbart – even when it’s over the top, it’s more than you’ll get from mainstream sources
The Contrarian – in depth investigative reporting may just be reborn there
Watch your backs boys and girls. And your fronts. No one else will.
It’s probably just a matter of time before heyjackass, CWB, pjmedia, breitbart,FR etc get the axe too.
Big Tech and others are implementing wholesale censorship and other restrictions (no entry without mask, no flying without vaccination “passport”, etc.) in ways the gov’t is forbidden by law to do. The defense is “These are private companies who can do what they want.”
Google killed the internet.
With the current surge to censor conservatives and the incoming group of rats with their anti-firearm agenda, I fully expect to see Youtube demonetizing and censoring all the firearm related channels.....
WRONG......these are not private companies.
They are publicly-held companies registered with the SEC in order to raise money to operate thru the sale of stock to investors.
Maybe we need to start a thread on GAB so people can figure out what it is and how to use it.
GAB is committed to free speech and no data tracking.
They will keep pushing their boot down upon our necks until we remove it one way or another.
“ I fully expect to see Youtube demonetizing and censoring all the firearm related channels..... ”
I think it’s worse than that - if banks can decide not to do business with Trump, what’s to stop them from processing funds to gun manufacturers, sellers, GOA, NRA (yeah I know) and anything else related? And as you say for social media to shut down all references.
Never thought of that but you’re absolutely right........
So Google “denies any action against the Blog”
They just doxed the author of the Blog so that the city and the Prog Mob could destroy his career and life.
Remember our Republican congressional Dog and Pony Show a couple of months ago, when they found Fascist Tech was not a monopoly and not a threat to free speech or our elections.
Worthless.
This is probably the most terrifying read I’ve had during this whole decline. If true, many will be squelched for simple self-preservation.
Gab would be a great idea as an alternative to the FR Facebook page.
This is how scary it is — my husband who is as conservative as I am, but until recently (when he just stopped reading the news for a bit to save his sanity) mainly got his info from Fox News.
Even HE confessed last night that he thinks Biden legit won, yes there was major cheating, but not enough. We agreed to disagree. But it shows the success of the gaslighting and misinformation that was done.
I tired going to GAB for the first time a couple of days ago. It just showed three blinking dots and a sentence “We will be right with you....” or some such comment.
It never went anywhere.
I have been a GAB subscriber for at least three years, {very sporadic, since I rarely post} but for the past several weeks have been unable to log on.
The usage {or monkey business} is so high, that every attempt times out.
GAB is supposed to be upgrading their server farm, we'll see if this fix works.
After I posted this, I went to GAB and got right in, it looks like the upgrade was a success.
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