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American Thinker ^ | 1/14/21 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/14/2021 5:32:44 AM PST by Renkluaf

It is news to almost nobody who reads American Thinker that a political witch hunt is underway. Parties in and out of government are looking for excuses to suppress and destroy voices that oppose the left.

Because AT lacks the ability to monitor comments in real time, and because our position that comments are a forum, not something that we publish, is being called into question, we can no longer publish comments.

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To: rockrr
-- I think I still have the US Robotics 56k kicking around somewhere --

I've got one in my mitts.

Used to run a BBS. Friend put his (PCBoard software) in an obscure IP location, network accessible. Was a hoot to use, takes one back to some faded memories. Gone now. He retired from ISPing.

41 posted on 01/14/2021 6:52:05 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Renkluaf

With the Capitol setup, they have all they need to shut down any conservative type of communication. After inauguration, it won’t take long before the internet, conservative news and radio will be purged. Unless, of course, they strictly follow the new guidelines.


42 posted on 01/14/2021 6:52:09 AM PST by robel
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To: rockrr

Supported AT Commands - Sierra Wireless (PDF file):

https://www.sierrawireless.com/resources/documents/support/2130617_Supported_AT_Command_Reference-v2.4.pdf

In the following, important to know - scroll down to “Do you know for sure that the internet connection initiated as a Dial-Up Network (DUN) connection and not as an USB ethernet connection?”

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15483282/connect-to-internet-with-gsm-modem-connected-no-internet


43 posted on 01/14/2021 6:56:26 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: ken in texas
But some of us old-timers got it. ;-)

I wrote to some kid on FR about acoustic couplers the other day. Makes me feel old.

44 posted on 01/14/2021 6:58:16 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (See Profile: I'm giving up.)
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To: Cboldt

What you say is true in a broad sense, but I am talking about this particular action.

This is silencing free speech out of fear.


45 posted on 01/14/2021 7:00:26 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Guenevere

AT is one of my favorite sites and most times I get more insight by reading the comments. I understand but my God. We are being purged. I’ve dropped it all; Twitter, Parler, Facebook. Maybe this is exactly the Dems plan.


46 posted on 01/14/2021 7:02:57 AM PST by krug
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To: brownsfan

Put the handset into the acoustic coupler.


47 posted on 01/14/2021 7:20:21 AM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Renkluaf

I’ve been banned from commenting at American Thinker for several years. I don’t know why, as they did not respond to my asking. It was after Bush I died, and the press that had never had a good word for him was now praising him. Maybe it’s a case of “the only good Republican is a dead Republican,” I said. I made several other comments that week, though, and maybe it was my comment about the curvature of space that got me banned.


48 posted on 01/14/2021 7:45:24 AM PST by Colinsky
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To: rockrr; Cboldt

Lincoln called it “a new birth” last time, as though the original had perished.

Certainly, something died between Sumter and Gettysburg, and the artifacts of that fatality remain in evidence to this very hour; manifest in the differences in how the causus belli are taught on the north and south. Lincoln isn’t the hero in Atlanta that he is in Albany.

This present has similar potential.


49 posted on 01/14/2021 8:12:54 AM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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bump


50 posted on 01/14/2021 8:16:25 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: Travis McGee

Thank you, followed.


51 posted on 01/14/2021 8:33:17 AM PST by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: Cboldt

We have to be a bit more artful in how we express ourselves.


52 posted on 01/14/2021 8:35:21 AM PST by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: gogeo

Use a lot more ridicule. And let’s face it, Biden is going to be a rich target.


53 posted on 01/14/2021 8:37:09 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Renkluaf

They were overrun by Qtards and commies.

Insane zealots all.


54 posted on 01/14/2021 8:50:43 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: dfwgator

Sure. And it’s not advocating for violence to point out that the Founders engaged in violence.


55 posted on 01/14/2021 9:42:51 AM PST by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: Alberta's Child; Renkluaf

I didn’t know they had a comment section, thus this is no change for me. But I can see the reasoning as being honestly fearing that keeping it open will let big tech close them down.


56 posted on 01/14/2021 10:06:21 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: HKMk23

Beautifully expressed....

.....but as a Southerner myself, Lincoln is certainly esteemed

...it is Sherman we all remember with distaste


57 posted on 01/14/2021 10:18:19 AM PST by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: \/\/ayne

“ The Dark Winter has begun.”

I’m guessing it’s going to be more like The Dark Ages...


58 posted on 01/14/2021 10:29:31 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Alberta's Child
Shutting down reader comments is pretty much the death of an online news outlet or political blog, in my opinion. Even if 90% of the comments are posted by nitwits, the remaining posts are often more informative than the original article.

My local Gannett newsrag used to have a very active online forum on which I commented frequently. A few years ago they started requiring all posts to go through Fakebook. Topics which previously would draw hundreds of comments went down to a dozen or two; less contentious topics down to a few or none.

59 posted on 01/14/2021 11:52:31 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed
Thanks for posting that.

And I can tell you that smart advertisers are generally very interested in metrics that indicate active reader engagement in online news articles instead of just clicks on a web page. Your Gannett newsrag isn't doing themselves any favors there.

60 posted on 01/14/2021 12:00:22 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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