Independent Conservative

There was a time when being a "Freeper" meant something. Topics of all kinds were researched and debated in grand fashion. I have several DVDs containing GB's of old threads that are amazing to reread.

Then the site was hit with the LAT/WP lawsuit which eliminated most full article posts, followed by the ideological purges that gutted lots of interesting discourse through the banishment of certain members and/or threads.

Innovative decay set in and the site now is a snapshot of the internet of the past. The software states it hasn't been updated since 2008. Completely text based, FR is a present-day Wayback Machine. It has existed as a very successful money maker, starting at $240,000/yr and climbing to as much as $360,000/yr, for its absentee, now deceased owner. The front page still encourages a visitor to send him an email or give him a call on his cell phone. Presumably, long distance charges will apply.

FR is only a shell of what it was and exists now as an online rest home, where aged members dawdle about, engaging in toothless one-sided 'debates', wasting away until they are all finally added to the Memorial wall of death.

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(Note: Jim Robinson passed away in Oct. 2025, after a long illness. I don't know who has or had been in charge during this time. The site seems to run on auto-bot/pilot. The wall hasn't been updated since 2021 and there's quite a backlog of names.)