Posted on 10/29/2018 4:16:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
LifeSite, a Christian pro-life news outlet, was allegedly blacklisted by its web host and given just 12 hours to find another host the website, or risk being offline. “LifeSite just received an email at 8:30 p.m. EST from our web-hosting company alerting us that they will be taking our website down within 12 hours, if not sooner,” claimed LifeSite in a statement, Saturday. “We received absolutely no forewarning whatsoever about this decision.”
“Our web developer is scrambling right now to set up a possibly-needed temporary solution to keep the website live. However, we’re going to have to go through the ordeal and expense of moving server companies,” the news outlet continued. “We also intend to fight these attacks, which will carry significant legal costs.”
In an update made following the original statement, LifeSite added, “Our web developer was up all night implementing temporary measures to keep our site online even if our current web-hosting company followed through on its threat to shut down our services. We are extremely grateful for his hard work on a Saturday night. However, this is only a temporary solution. We are currently looking for a web-hosting company that will not cave to threats of this kind.”
On its website, LifeSite describes itself as a “non-profit Internet service dedicated to issues of culture, life, and family,” launched by the pro-life Campaign Life Coalition in 1997, which “emphasizes the social worth of traditional Judeo-Christian principles but is also respectful of all authentic religions and cultures that esteem life, family and universal norms of morality.”
LifeSite was not the only website blacklisted by its web host this week, with free speech social network Gab losing its web host Joyent late on Saturday and being given until just Monday morning to migrate to another host.
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I can make that argument. What is needed is not regulation as utilities, but effective anti-trust action.
The article says Joyent. The company apparently hosted Gab, too.
Far-Right Site Gab Ditched by Cloud Host Joyent, Suspended by Stripe Amid Synagogue Massacre [Update: GoDaddy Yanks Domain]
https://gizmodo.com/far-right-site-gab-ditched-by-cloud-host-joyent-suspen-1830059219
With sadness I note:
(1) No information about any connected allegation or circumstance
(2) Nobody is being asked to pray
(3) Aren’t there any Christian run hosting services?
This sounds like the kind of psyop that Satan launches.
Christians will probably weather this better than the more carnal FR would, if push comes to shove. Instead of just “oh poor endangered us,” devoted Christians’ attitude is “how do we get to the next victory for the Lord’s sake?”
ah Ok, thank you sir. :) I will add to my list of companies to boycott..
Didn’t Gab have a porn section?
If Christian, I wouldn’t want to share services with a hosting company that had no problem with porn.
Is Free Republic next?
Followed by a tomb to be resurrected in and leave empty?
I know I have sounded like a nag for several years about it, but I believe FR could yet improve its game of glorification of God.
The time will come. No opposition to the party line will be tolerated or allowed to prosper. I’m not saying I like it. I’m just saying the world is going insane. When men are “becoming” “women” and women are “becoming” “men” you know the world has entered a new level of crazy.
Sure. It goes way back. Way back to Genesis 19 and those times. But as a political rallying point?
The world does not like to hear the truth. And indeed, we are living in Interesting Times.
Daniel 7:7-8 King James Version
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
They dont even pretend anymore.
All conservatism is under assault!
This is how civil wars start.........
Many people have been asking a similar question about alternatives to Fakebook and Twitter. Alternatives? I guess Gab was one and now they've been kicked off the Internet.
Yes, a Christian run hosting service needs to either be found or created.
The excuse is that these hosting services are privately owned and therefore the first amendment rules don't apply to them.
In my opinion, you are correct.
To the leftists, see you in court.
Times like this are when God stands ready to perform miracles, if we are willing to think in that direction rather than the same old same old carnal stuff.
Systematic election interference.
They are planting the seeds of their end.
They talk a good game.
There must be SOME reputable and capable web hosting company who will take All comers, regardless of content (well, except cild porn and those literally and clearly advocating for violence against others or revolution).
If not some enterprising person can make a lot of money by starting one up.
Not me...they need regulation, hard as it is to write or think that.
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