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1 posted on 10/31/2022 6:35:54 PM PDT by RandFan
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Hypocritical how lefties can lie their little idiot heads off, and the media never bats an eye.


2 posted on 10/31/2022 6:38:30 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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Tim Pool will be gone by the week’s end.


3 posted on 10/31/2022 6:41:27 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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It's a nightmare scenario for owners of these domains and websites because it will knock you off-line.

Not completely. You could still use IP numbers.

Free Republic is 45.79.56.181 .
4 posted on 10/31/2022 6:42:04 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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A blockchain based secure communication framework for community interaction

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214212621000351

And more.

Hamm Radio carried smartphone comms.
Satellite phone backup

Guns, Ammo
Medicines and medical supplies
Off-grid Power
Prepped food


9 posted on 10/31/2022 6:51:35 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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IMHO, it is a given that FR will be its first target...

JimRob has made it clear that this site supports the Constitution of the United States...

An unambiguous terrorist thought, in the opinion of our communist masters...


20 posted on 10/31/2022 7:13:22 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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Commercial communication companies like Google, Verizon and Comcast actually state in their "terms of use" type policies that certain forms of speech are prohibited. For example, Verizon's Acceptable Use Policy states in part,

1. General Policy: Verizon reserves the sole discretion to deny or restrict your Service, or immediately to suspend or terminate your Service, if the use of your Service by you or anyone using it, in our sole discretion, ...is objectionable...or violates the terms of this Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”). Is so broad and subjectively defined that it can cover all sorts of otherwise protected speech. It used to say, "Verizon reserves the right to deny Service to you, or immediately to terminate your Service for material breach, if your use... promotes or incites bigotry, hatred or racism; (c) might be legally actionable for any reason, (d) is objectionable for any reason...

And Comporium Communications, like the rest, has a SERVICE AGREEMENT in which it states, Objectionable content. Using our services to post, transmit or disseminate any content that is, in our opinion, abusive, libelous, slanderous, defamatory, incites hatred or is otherwise offensive or objectionable.

Likewise, Comcast Cloud Solutions Terms of Service (for businesses) states, in part,

BY USING THE CLOUD SOLUTIONS MARKETPLACE YOU AGREE NOT TO post, upload, or distribute any User Submission (as defined in Section 8 below) or other content that is defamatory....inaccurate... or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive,...threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.

And as usual with these terms of service consents, this contains some ambiguous language( that would allow broad censorship (cf. content that is offensive or objectionable) which can be interpreted to place FR in violation, and you/us as users, now or in the future.

And note Cloudflare's policy which is, as stated vby CEO Matthew Prince, "One of the greatest strengths of the United States is a belief that speech, particularly political speech, is sacred. A website, of course, is nothing but speech ... A website is speech. It is not a bomb. There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain."

For all customers Cloudflare offers an "I'm Under Attack Mode" setting. Cloudflare claims this can mitigate advanced Layer 7 attacks by presenting a JavaScript computational challenge which must be completed by a user's browser before the user can access a website - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare

But who dropped the American neo-Nazi website "The Daily Stormer" as a customer. Which I would do also, but as said, if a host can deny such based on its content being objectionable, it can deny conservative content on the same basis (unless perhaps the one denied wanted to promote the homosexual agenda or reverse racism.). This issue led to this opinion piece in the NYT no less, The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors :

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of corporate players on the internet: companies that build infrastructure through which content flows, and companies that seek to curate content and create a community.

Internet service providers like Verizon and Comcast, domain name servers, web hosts and security services providers like Cloudflare are all the former — or the “pipe.” They typically don’t look at the content their clients and customers are putting up, they just give them the means to do it and let it flow.

Social media platforms like Facebook are the latter. They encourage their users to create, share and engage with content — so they look at content all the time and decide whether they want to allow hateful material like that of neo-Nazis to stay up.

One of the additional difficulties with Cloudflare is that it is not so much a piece of pipe as it is a service. Specifically, it is a paid-for-protection service. Having to hire Cloudflare to protect your website is like having to hire security to protect you from attackers when you speak in the public square.

Matthew Prince, Cloudflare’s chief executive, acknowledged how much power his company has, and what’s at stake. “The internet is a really important resource for everyone,” he said in an interview with TechCrunch, “but there’s a very limited set of companies that control it and there’s such little accountability to us that it really is quite a dangerous thing.” - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-stormer-charlottesville.html


21 posted on 10/31/2022 7:21:52 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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It’s more likely they’ll charge the site for mis-info with some bogus new law congress passes and then fine a site thousands of dollars per day or per violation. Levying fines and penalties is what this govt does best.


27 posted on 10/31/2022 7:43:42 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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Bookmark


29 posted on 10/31/2022 7:58:26 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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