WordPress.com deplatforms those critical of Islam

Jihad Watch ^ | May 15, 20191 | Marc

[Jyotishi]

WordPress.com has deplatormed those critical of Islam. I am very disappointed having been a contributor to the WordPress code in the distant past, and I have assisted in responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities to them on a voluntary basis in the recent past. I did see it coming though.

While it would not be possible to restrict use of the WordPress source code https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress which is publicly available and built by volunteers, and distributed at wordpress.org, its is "open source". wordpress.com is very different. It is a commercial enterprise which has some free options, the codebase being very similar, but proprietary; and includes the hosting aspect as part of the package.

[BTerclinger]

Also (and thank you again for dealing with my stupid newbie questions)

if I used dreamhost, am I facing wordpress censorship, or I go back to your / the commenter at the creeping sharia takedown article who describes hiding plugins so it doesn’t look like wordpress?

(thats starting to sound way over my head)

I see Branco using klicked.com to manage his very politically incorrect cartoon website; starts at $35/month with little free support but includes them selling the advertising...

[palmer]

Always better to deal with raw HTML IMO, but that’s because I am a minimalist. However, if you want it to look nice you’ll probably start with a nice editor that lets you drag and move stuff around along with picture editing. Then do your updates with raw HTML editing, e.g. add another picture to a long series of pictures wirth a caption below and separator above.

[palmer]

if I used dreamhost, am I facing wordpress censorship, or I go back to your / the commenter at the creeping sharia takedown article who describes hiding plugins so it doesn’t look like wordpress?

No, dreamhost won't censor you or cave to politics and wordpress.com or wordpress open source project doesn't have a say in that. Also since dreamhost is a shared wordpress server, you don't get to choose whether to hide or not. They decide that. They probably don't hide, I don't think it would pay off for them.

You would use the wordpress hider if you go the bare VPS route (e.g. linode, digital ocean at $5/month) and do the LAMP installation like this: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-wordpress-5-with-apache-on-debian-9/ If that looks crazy to you, then try the shared server instead. After those steps on that how-to, you will still need to do the wordpress hiding step and a bunch of other security-related changes.

I've used linode, digital ocean, vultr, AWS and dreamhost. My dreamhost account is just a shell account on a shared server. I started using them in 2007 at $8/moth I seem to be gradfathered in at $8/month which is a bit pricey. Oh well, I've been pretty satisfied with their level of service and dedication.

[BTerclinger]

Thank you thank yo!

Have a good weekend!