Let's Encourage President Trump to sign up at Free Republic

Vanity ^ | 1/16/2021 | Kevmo

[Kevmo]

Yup, like Trixie/Lucianne and Ann Coulter.

A few years ago I invited Duncan Hunter to join and he even did an online interview with us. I believe he signed up by way of his son Duncan Hunter Ambassador.

But it is circle-the-wagons time and it helps to have a good shooter at the center with a Gatling gun.

[Kevmo]

We would get more servers. I presume.

[crusty old prospector]

I am Donald Trump.

[RandallFlagg]

I am Batman.

[glimmerman70]

Would not surprise me if he already is here.

[palmer]

There were attacks years ago which involved planting links to malware and then getting FR blocked. FR is pretty good now about mitigating that. Another attack a few years ago was DDOS. They did succeed in denying service for a little while but John R has proprietary protection, probably based on automatic blocking of addresses and other things. Roll-your-own protection is really the only choice since only big players can provide the non-proprietary protection and we cannot rely on Google or Amazon at all.

That first type of attack is intruder information warfare. There are many people here who can recognize it, report it, and intruders can be dealt with promptly. Browers blocking the site based on faulty accusations of disseminating viruses can be bypassed by using a different browser. Have to be somewhat wary of consortiums of "computer security" people colluding to block us, especially if the government sanctions their actions. But I don't see it as a big threat.

The second type of attack is external. The major risk is not that we can't blunt the attack and stay up, but that our internet provider may not want their other customers to suffer from the fallout. We always have to be aware of that possibility.

There are probably other threats as well that I haven't heard of or thought about.

[BunnySlippers]

it would become a free for all.

[BiglyCommentary]

I am here already.

[PLMerite]

“I’m not sure having Trump be an active participant would be wise.”

I concur, sadly.

[SE Mom]

And minimum 50 full-time mods- 24/7.

Insanity would prevail.

[SkyDancer]

Thanks for explaining all that.

[Gene Eric]

For the sake of FRamily, yes. But I would rather have him broadcast his message.

[Kevmo]

Let’s roll

[gdc61]

yea, there were more, ran off by idiots mostly... I remember one exchange with Hannity someone was bashing him for taking martial arts!! sigh

[CrazyIvan]

“We would have millions of followers in a few short weeks.”

And millions of obnoxious trolls.

[House Atreides]

I am Donald Trump.
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I had my suspicions and thought so... I won’t tell anyone. ;-)

[Captain Peter Blood]

No, sorry this site does not need to be anymore in liberal crosshairs than it is already.

[Kevmo]

He’s gonna need multiple outlets.

And first class software. Jimrob’s platform is the premium commenting software on the web.

He reminds me of the McDonald’s brothers, with their 2 hamburger restaurants. Ray Kroc came along to sell them milkshake machines, and purchased their franchising rights. The 2 brothers still operated their restaurants, got hefty checks, were pretty happy. Ray Kroc became a billionaire.

Jimrob could become an internationally famous and wealthy multimillionaire if he started licensing the FR platform. Basically DISQUS did that, their platform is a dog in comparison, but they have hundreds of millions of users now. Starting from scratch.

[enumerated]

Haha! So we should ban him from FR /s

[Kevmo]

Simple: You set up a voluntary 30 point self-identifying profile on 30 different issues with a 10 point self-score on their home page.

So if you find yourself debating, for example, some dude who claims to be a 7 point pro-lifer but he obviously is pro-abortion, you report him to the mods and they put him on timeout for not matching his own profile.