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Will Free Republic go down in the next few days?
My memory and extrapolation | Ciaphas Cain

Posted on 01/16/2025 12:30:10 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain

I've been around FR for awhile, much longer than my registration. Something I remember from January 2017: Free Republic couldn't be reached at all in the day or so leading up to and on Trump's first inauguration.

After the lights came back on, some on here wondered if everyone watching the site and trying to party together is what brought the place down for that day and a half.

There were many however who suggested something more nefarious. Mainly, that the outgoing administration's lackeys launched a denial of service attack on Free Republic, out of spite.

Should we put it past the Biden regime that they won't do that in the days building up to the second inauguration of Donald Trump? I for one wouldn't.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: fr; freerepublic; inauguration; vanity
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Just something I've felt led to share. Better to be prepared and not need it than to need it and not be prepared.
1 posted on 01/16/2025 12:30:10 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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Oops. Mis-spelled “Republic”. Possible to fix?


2 posted on 01/16/2025 12:30:44 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)
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“Better to be prepared and not need it than to need it and not be prepared.”

How are you preparing?


3 posted on 01/16/2025 12:33:12 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Magic Fingers

mentally?


4 posted on 01/16/2025 12:34:22 PM PST by Gene Eric
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I plan to have FR open on my iPad while watching the inauguration. But I'm also preparing for the possibility that FR won't be available.

We are talking about people who will spite anyone they perceive as the enemy. This site has been on that list for a loooong time.

5 posted on 01/16/2025 12:34:53 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)
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Hard to stop a DNS attack


6 posted on 01/16/2025 12:35:32 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“Will Free Repubic go down in the next few days?”

But they’re sure trying to repubic confused youngsters these days. Hopefully, Trump and his crew will put a stop to it


7 posted on 01/16/2025 12:35:36 PM PST by ryderann
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😁.................


8 posted on 01/16/2025 12:36:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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There’s always CNN.


9 posted on 01/16/2025 12:36:34 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Does FR have an X account?

Just in case?....................


10 posted on 01/16/2025 12:37:22 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

LOL


11 posted on 01/16/2025 12:38:03 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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Ahhh, you got me on that one. That was definitely a slip of the fingers on the keyboard :-P


12 posted on 01/16/2025 12:39:20 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)
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“There were many however who suggested something more nefarious. Mainly, that the outgoing administration’s lackeys launched a denial of service attack on Free Republic, out of spite.”

Seems to me Firefox also limits how much access we have to Newsmax. When I access it sooner or later Firefox disables my reading too many of their articles. DuckDuckGo doesn’t have that problem.


13 posted on 01/16/2025 12:42:16 PM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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We are talking about people who will spite anyone they perceive as the enemy. This site has been on that list for a loooong time.

IMHO, FR is small fry (not enough people) and not on the left's ban list. Plus, the left has changed tactics since then and rarely fully ban like they used to. They're more liable to shadow ban and reduce the number of people who come across FR (i.e. through Google search, or perhaps mess up the domain name resolution so that freerepublic.com in the URL box doesn't work, but the IP address 45.79.56.181 does).

14 posted on 01/16/2025 12:43:10 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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The only reasons I remember for FR going down was server failure and forgetting to renew domain name and the latter still allowed getting here by IP address.


15 posted on 01/16/2025 12:43:23 PM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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Couple of FR Alternatives:

Gab

Fakebook

16 posted on 01/16/2025 12:44:29 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I’ve been here since May 18, 1998. Every major news event resulted in hours long blackouts thanks to 14.4K baud rates on dial up. It completely sucked.

That was the price you paid to be the most informed person in the office.


17 posted on 01/16/2025 12:46:47 PM PST by shotgun (H)
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Numerical IP address for FR - 45.79.56.181


18 posted on 01/16/2025 12:47:01 PM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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Please forgive me...I’m having an esoteric day. Hopefully it will be gone tomorrow.


19 posted on 01/16/2025 12:49:04 PM PST by ryderann
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Closed my FB account in 2017 after Trump won the election..............


20 posted on 01/16/2025 12:54:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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