Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term “deplatforming.” Unfortunately, the big tech control mechanism to shut down speech & assembly has now arrived on our doorstep.
One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received the following notification:
…”given the incompatibility between your site’s content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd.
What does this mean? It means CTH is being kicked-off the WordPress website hosting platform because the content of our research and discussion does not align with the ideology of those who define what is acceptable speech and what is not.
What was our violation? After ten years of brutally honest discussion, opinion, deep research and crowdsourcing work -with undeniable citations on the events we outline- there is no cited violation of any term of service because CTH has never violated one.
The WordPress company is not explaining the reason for deplatforming because there is no justifiable reason for it. At the same time, they are bold in their position. Perhaps this is the most alarming part; and everyone should pay attention. They don’t care.
Truthful assembly is now the risk. CTH is now too big; with a site reach of 500,000 to a million unique readers each day; and with well over 200,000 subscribers; our assembly is too large, too influential, and presents a risk… we guard the flickering flame.
Ten years of work assembling a library of factual citations and explanations of those discoveries, positions CTH to be a leading force in the rebel alliance push-back. [Heck, that’s why this place was started… that was our purpose: “The Truth Has No Agenda.”] However, that also makes us a target; hence the deplatforming.
Accepting -at its core- this move is all about politics, this is yet another reference point in the tenuous nature of where we stand. There’s no hate-speech on this website; there’s no graphic, violent, foul or abusive speech here. The ‘content‘ of the Treehouse is the same discussion that happens around your kitchen table or back porch discussion with friends. We would never cheapen or insult that conversation with vulgarity because that’s not who we are… because that’s not who our nation is. So consider this next part very carefully…
The ‘content’ is not compatible with WordPress, the world’s largest website and blog hosting service. The content within the largest blog on that global platform is what has become troublesome. “The content”.
The content on these pages is simply an ongoing discussion about freedom with criticism against any political party or entity that diminishes it. Apparently, immediately after the 2020 election, that discussion became problematic. After writing about the COVID-19 agenda,…the notification: the website will be removed.
Let that settle in…. friends and adversaries alike. Think very hard about what exactly is being represented by these actions. That’s the bad news.
So what are we going to do?
First three priorities: #1 is the security of the site content and research files with over a decade of work; #2) ensuring the ability of our assembly to remain; #3) continue the mission.
In the past several days I have begun contacting people to inform and gather counsel on what is the best course of action. On a very positive note, the Rebel Alliance is stronger than ever and no amount of effort by Big Tech is going to be able to weaken the resolve or block the message.
We will take this challenge head-on and we will use this attack against our freedom as fuel to launch CTH 2.0, a new version of The Conservative Treehouse.
I have no idea yet what it will look like… hopefully not too dissimilar to what we are already comfortable with. However, a lot has changed in the technological world since 2010/2011. There are many new and innovative ways to develop, build and create proprietary platforms.
I don’t like anything about having to be forced to do this. Readers here know I prefer comfortable quality that lasts a long time; but there is no alternative. We are being kicked-off WordPress and will have to assemble on a platform that allows free expression, free thought and free ideas to be shared, valued and appreciated.
Additionally, as I look at preliminary options for Treehouse 2.0, one guiding element is priority: I will continue to work earnestly to be deserving of your support and fellowship.
When this site was launched it was for all of us. A refuge, a place of comfort:
However each of us got here, it’s probably a fact that we have the turmoil of those storms in common, perhaps some unease that we could share and always, we also find fresh ground to cover from day to day. We’re developing valuable relationships as we trust one another in our community in the woods. The chatting in the branches encourages, strengthens and equips for some serious walking.
We think the Treehouse is a good armory for those who doing long distance walking for the sake of our nation. We hope you’ll think so, too. Find yourself a good branch….or just pull up a rock to the campfire.
YOU are what matters!
We have shared laughs. We have lost friends. We have lost family together. We have comforted each-other. We have prayed together… and we have sat still together. Sometimes we are not able to find the words of comfort, yet we know it is just as valuable to be there, quietly, steadfast and eliminate the loneliness. We have cried together and rejoiced in each-other’s milestones… This is the source of my resolve.
We have achieved great victories; confronted injustice; done incredible crowdsourcing work that has made lives better, and we have successfully found the truth behind a multitude of frauds and schemes. Let there be no doubt, that will continue.
I have been somewhat quiet lately as I try to figure out what exactly is the next thing to do. Much like our nation, there is trepidation all around us. It is likely that CTH will look different and we may have to engage and learn some new stuff. But it will be OK.
The rebel alliance is strong… and we are angry.
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This isn’t as bad or painful as you think.
Same thing happened to my friends over at Western Rifle Shooters in June. They gave him one day notice.
First off, WordPress is both an open source content management system (think of it as free blog software that can be run anywhere) as well as a packaged service that includes the servers which can host and run the software. The two can be separated – and in fact most users of the WordPress framework software run it on their own servers which WordPress-the-service has no control over. WRSA got booted from the WordPress servers. They can and should easily move their site and users to another independent host, and the users won’t be able to tell any difference. TBP utilizes the WordPress software but is not hosted on the WordPress servers, and that’s why it’s safe from being blackballed by WordPress.
You can continue to use the WordPress framework.
You merely have to move to a new host. WRSA went to GAB.
You can host it yourself. https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Web-Host-in-Your-Home
You have plenty of folks that will help with the funding.
Running the existing site on an alternative server would seem to be the easiest option.
I have two tiny blogs that use WP’s free hosting service. Maybe it’s time for me to think about moving them, too.
My blog is there and free as well. I need to think about good ing somewhere else too!
Sundance,
I’ve been seriously enjoying your treehouse for yrs. i never was a comment person but today I feel overwhelmed with feelings.
i don’t know you or your family but i feel compelled to tell you how much i love you , your knowledge, and what you have given me.
i do brag ons of your site all the time. The way you layout information is incredible. as you write, blue links with more weeded info are always awaiting me.
I also get cozy and comfy and despise change (though not all ). I wish patriots could live among ourselves in a harmony leftists wish they had. I’m sorry for everything you have to go through but I will be with you in any way i can.Prayers of course but if you need any monetary help all you have to do is let all of us know. we are there.
God be with you,
Karen <—- a nice one…..
Sundance, I will watch and be ready to do what little I can to support your move. Please continue to do what you do. Your new home should make you become the butterfly after being a caterpillar. Stay strong.
“A nice one”—indeed! I have long thought it a travesty that all the sensible women and girls named ‘Karen’ (I have known a few) have had their name applied to busybodies, tattletales, and malevolent do-gooders.
I have proposed calling such people ‘Pardiggles’, after the busybody in Dickens’s Bleak House. So far no one has taken me up on it, but it’s not too late.
L.E.
I am a huge Bleak House fan. Dickens masterpiece among many.
This site is my go to site for clarifying the news of the day and for more in depth analysis than I get anywhere else. I hope that Sundance can land on his feet and the quality that this site offers can once again flourish.
I’d like to know how I can be made aware of where CTH 2 eventually ends up at. I don’t do twitter or facebook, I did use a ligit email account when I signed up here, can or will a notification be sent via email?
Cold anger.
Today I’m beginning to understand what a Roman Citizen must have felt when they realized that the Republic was sick.
Locals.com is an option. It’s Dave Rubin’s new space for content creators. You can post free content as well as premium content. Users can pay as little as 5 dollars a month to get premium content. Scott Adams, Greg Gutfeld and Michael Malice are there.
Build your own server farm if you have to. It appears people in the comments have ways to help. Stay Strong and take the criminals down, CTH. Godspeed. I’ll be praying for you and i will no longer use WordPress for any project.
First, thank you for everything you have researched and shared with us.
Second, I will follow where you go.
I have always felt so blessed by The Treehouse and all those that post here. I have learned so much. I am so thankful that I found this site several years ago.
Ditto. Lead on! SD … Lead on!
although not quite a platform I use usa.life as sort of a platform for my website,..
https://usa.life/remix
What I will offer is my financial support. Beginning today I promise a monthly donation to CTH. Sundance, thank you for all that you do. Fight on!!
I don’t have time to read through all the comments since I posted on this thread when there was about 30 comments, so maybe someone has already mentioned this. Your problem is a hot topic on thedonald.win and people are already mobilizing to help you out technically and financially. I think you will get more help than you need. We have a great community of patriots online!
I found thedonald.win and visit daily as I do here. I am already disenfranchised because I don’t subscribe to Twitter and FB and am still windows 7. See?? I am low tech and don’t even understand much of that.
I read comments here to get the pulse of the nation generally.
Am watching for the move, will gladly help pay for a new server, etc.
Because we are the tree house:
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.
Where exactly is the headquarters of WordPress? We should go tell them in person how pissed off we are. They shouldn’t just be allowed to do this unchecked. I was very sad and defeated at first, and now I am seething mad
It’s strange but it seems a tad difficult to find out exactly “who” wordpress are?
Double odd is that WP are heavily censored/banned in China and banned in Turkey because they wouldn’t take down “offensive content” and then WP deplatforms CTH for incompatible material (???)
legal doesnt matter anymore. We need an offshore ability to communicate due to the Commies taking over our Big Tech here in the USA.
If they want your 1A and the soap box dies; the courts will not take your case or judge it fairly, then the jury box dies; and we are in process of discovering the ballot box is rigged;
…then our resource is the ammo box.
See you on the barricades or around the tailgate of my truck and will keep posting here and reading here as long as it remains available through my wifi hotspot.
The spelling is MILITIA (and se how often it shows up in Constitution when you search the document).
Banned by Twitter, and I will NOT take down my 2 posts onlyon masks-when I’m banned for “publishing false information in voting”! I will Follow you wherever you go-FREEDOM❗️❗️❗️
Terrible news!
Why not do your own hosting? As with everything else in life, it’s typically more expensive up front, but long term it’s cheaper when you own your own stuff. I’m sure there are plenty of treepers that are technical enough to help out.
Its not when it comes to paying for direct bandwidth.
He has between 500K and 1 Million unique visitors a day.
Most any IP is going to charge you out the yang to host private bandwidth in that quantity, compared to the Datacenter hosting.
*ISP not IP
I’m sure you’ll find a place no problem. But in case you want other options for physical hosting sites there’s a lot of them in St. Louis that would love to have you regardless of content and are all clients of mine with N+1 and N+2 redundant infrastructure.
VXCHANGE
Cosentry
Datotel
Netrality
Go Daddy
Cybercom
Connectria
River City
Red Plaid
Just to name a few…sorry to hear the news.
I’ve always known, if the globalist, leftist communists could, they would try to tax the air we breath and make thoughts, they disapprove of, illegal. Well most of that has happened, “global warming” laws, if Biden and the left regain control will force everyone to pay for climate control. And there are already soft-communist countries like most of Europe and Canada who make it a crime to criticize what they enshrine as “holy”; i.e Islam; homosexual immorality; Joe Biden’s son Hunter; president Obama’s legacy and abortion to name a few.
But I read the end of the Book and God wins in the end, so “fear not little flock”. Jesus Christ will reign in righteousness and truth.
Sundance – I can’t tell you how sick I am over this. I have been following you since Trayvon. You have been instrumental in my conversion from a liberal Democrat to a rabid PDJT supporter.
I have notified Tucker, Sean, Newsmax, Lou Dobbs, Steve Bannon, Dick Morris and the President. I hope they get the word out.
Prayer is needed now more than ever. They are totally trying to destroy everyone who doesn’t drink their Kool-Aid.
Citizen Free Press uses Fused: https://www.fused.com/ which “proudly supports free speech.”
Is anyone surprised by this fascist decision by WordPravda?
Sundance, the CTH needs a business class upgrade.
The silencing of Conservative voices it Fascism. Who got to WordPress? Deplatform? This is America? They want to stifle news and information. Amazing, the Main Street Media can lie for 4 years about RussiaGate, unchecked but its Conservatives who are the liars and conspiracy theorists?
I just logged into computer land here,. (We had a very fun and long day with 3 little grand kids today.) A lot of fun….
Checking email… shocked then sad
deplatformed!!? huh?.what does that mean?
… I am crushed. Please do not let me get lost in the wind and dust. ?
All of you. Well you do not know me that well enough bc I never get a chance to comment, but this blog is seriously MY Last Refuge. I need you people!
What if I open this one morning and you are gone!!?
You need to go to “unstoppabledomain.com” and get a .crypto domain, so that you own it. Nobody can kick you off of your own crypto domain because it’s decentralized and you actually own the domain, not WordPress or GoDaddy . . . just you!
Citizen Free Press is hosted by fused.com.
despite the huge task ahead of you – please be sure to let us know (when you know) what you will b using to replace WordPress. i have a few sites that use it and i would feel perfectly happy jumping them to anyplace else. Stay Strong.
Whatever it takes,your resources are here. Just say the words.
Thank you Sundance!!
I will also follow you. We are freedom loving, God fearing Patriots.
well, could see this coming a mile away…just surprised how long it lasted, sigh. That being said, there have to be places out there where the Treehouse can flourish and to misquote James Fenimore Cooper:
“No! You stay alive…You’re strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! [We] will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, [We] will find you . . . “
Agree. I’ve been concerned something like this would happen after Sundance went into the belly of the beast back in August. I have other concerns associated with this that I will not voice but I’m sure I’m not alone in that regard. Having said that, you quoted one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies. Quite fitting for the day.
This is why the leftists are despised.
They don’t want to talk. They don’t want a fair fight. They want to silence, and rule with a boot on the neck.
Never.
Donated to help on the expenses. I’ll be honored to follow where ever you move to.
Build your own or find a bullet-proof, pro-free speech platform. If you build your own platform:
Basically you need to do it yourself and not use middlemen who simplify the process
1) direct registry of TheConservativeTreeHouse.com URL (don’t use godaddy, wix etc
2) deploy your own servers (no AWS, etc.)
3) deploy your own website developer (no godaddy, wix, WordPress)
4) Find an ISP willing to cut you bandwidth to a private location that handles high traffic
5) generate enough income to pay for said bandwidth of 500K to 1 mill unique visitors per day.
how is it you cant sue their asses off for that? show me how I violated the terms, your YOU ARE…
if you decide to sue them I would be willing to donate to the legal expenses!!!!!!
They dont have to show him shinola. Most Terms of Service contracts gives total authority to the WebHost. They can terminate for any or no reason per the agreement that SD signed with them.
I’ll make a post below with link to the specific verbiage.
The stand up Michigan group moved to local.com. They are working with those developers to go live so they can bypass YouTube. Apparently there is a $3/month fee but stand up Michigan is absorbing that the first year.
Here are links to their two most recent live videos. One is discussing the pervasive steal of MI. The other is the Ex director speaking at the Lansing rally yesterday where she addresses the big tech muzzling.
https://azee.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d874d37660e4f148622d0e225&id=231ec960c7&e=11c491e5e9
https://standupmichigan.locals.com/upost/233957/tammy-clark-at-stop-the-steal-rally
Worth watching. Particularly the entire first link. The steal techniques used in MI probably happened in your state, too.
More entertainment deemed naughty by the owners of the New Regime:
[video src="https://video.parler.com/Fa/q8/Faq8MmkoQNDg_small.mp4" /]
This is how you know you are right over the target. If they thought they had really won this, they wouldn’t be cutting off their nose to spite their face, especially right at this moment when everything is literally swaying in the balance of justice. They want to shut you down (or at the very least, waste your time) during the last two weeks over the most important court battle of our lifetimes. They know they can’t win and are just throwing kegs of powder overboard in the hope that it will distract us or slow us down. They are not doing this from a position of strength but a position of desperation.
Take heart!
Stay Strong. You Will Prevail.
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When the Washington Post adopted the slogan “Democracy Dies In Darkness” I thought it was pithy and ironic, but little did I realize THEY WERE BRAGGING. Worse, they were actually wrong, again! Democracy dies in daylight!
This is despicable, horrible news about Word Press deplatforming CTH. Clearly, the Newly Woke are emboldened by the capitulation of corporate news organizations to censorship, throttling and Democrat ‘newspeak.’
If there is anything to be learned, it is this: “Insurrection grows by what all other things die of.” — Thomas Carlyle, ‘The French Revolution- A History,’ 1840.
“Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L’étendard sanglant est levé …
… Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons !”
Very sorry to hear about WordPress despicable attack. Sorry, but not surprised.
My recommendation for what it’s worth is to be as independent as you can afford to be, because otherwise the SJW fascists will chase you from one platform to another. Regardless whether Trump is re-elected (and God send he will be), the environment for patriotic American voices is going to get rapidly more and more hostile from now on and there is no end in sight.
Admin. Did my post just get dumped or in mod?
Never mind.
Never mind.
publish the names and addresses of the word press owners and executives.
OMG! I use this site as a refuge and I learn so much from you and the treepers. I actually was coming onto this site to ask questions about Durham dropping his spygate investigation. I’m wondering if this is the start of the big push to take over and I am trying to remain calm but my imagination is going wild. We are with you always!
Not a regular, but I followed a link to your COVID article yesterday. I’ll be checking back to see what new arrangements you make. You must be doing a good job to warrant an attack of this magnitude.
Bill WP for the cost to migrate your content. If/when they reject your bill, consult an atty to find out the statute of limitations for contract issues and file it away for a future lawsuit. When that day comes in which political/viewpoint discrimination gets litigated in the new big tech environment, then unroll the lawsuit on them.
sundance,
the following advice is submitted.
1. Verify and GUARANTEE YOUR DOMAIN NAME AND CONTENT IS PROTECTED BEFORE YOU MIGRATE..this is critical.
2. Choose a hosting service with great care. Terms vary. I would recommend that you host your site with cloudflare. And use their DNSSEC products !! It is not only highly reliable with a massive network of servers worldwide, but it’s DNS is unparalleled in terms of reliability and security. The anti DDOS feature alone is worth looking at. (spoiler: DDOS is going to become a bigger issue very soon for many websites.)
3. DO NOT USE A COMMERCIAL OFF SHELF RUN OF MILL COMMENT MANAGEMENT SUITE. Roll your own. I can refer you to some folks that I have used in the past. ALL OPEN SOURCE. (free, but not like free as in free beer..capiche?) If you do decide to go with a commercial program, I recommend disqus. It’s robust, and efficient, and has many features that treepers will really appreciate…(enrollment is not required, and cutout email registration is permissible…html encoding within comments and links, as well as image options….easy …does not require alot of tecnical skills to adopt…which tends to turn ppl off who would not want to “learn” new skills just to make a comment. Disqus also has android, ios, and microsoft apps, and will link to a email as well as sms text for those that must have it all the time.
4. Should you choose, operating expenses can be defrayed with basic membership enrollment…optional as you prefer or as treeper users prefer. Allowing anon payments for “support” rather than membership per se….don’t make it a pay wall …make it optional (many of us prefer some level of privacy and security…and would be more than willing to help contribute versus having a “membership”…..not because we don’t want to identify with the content…but out of standard internet security which has proven to be an oxymoron.
5. A professional webmaster can recreate the same style and feel and format with ease. There is NOTHING about your website that is exotic. Plain jane works for this use case. If however, you are looking to upgrade and improve the navigation and page presentation, I highly recommend you consider looking at WIKILEAKS…it was also plain jane, to publish fact based raw unsalted data. It’s sleep and the search function is robust. It has that neutral feel by design. Just an idea.
6. Due to some internet standards rolling out in 2021, many older android devices that cannot be updated will have problems connecting to many websites. This is unfortunate but it’s a reality. I would have your webmaster analyse how many users and lurkers are using the older android devices and make a determination if building a backware compatible “twin” that allows access.
7. write a book. I think you have a story to tell. I think there is great interest in your work and what it really means to this nation.
If there is anything I can do to help, adrem has an email address for my contact. Be glad to put you in touch with some very capable A level developers.
God Bless
I disliked very much the way Disqus handled Breitbart comments.
It was just a great big long list of single posts and no ability to cluster responses. When responding, there is no way to reference what post you are responding to.
Maybe it’s changed but that’s what it was like when I used to visit BB. The limited way the commenting worked was one of the reasons I stopped reading there.
Been thinking what brought this on right at this time – other than the election, of course.
The whole goal of what is going on, IMHO, is the “Great Reset.” President Trump is in the way. In fact, it sure looks like he is the only thing that is in the way. Very few people have a clue as to what this “Great Reset” is aiming to do. Almost all of Europe’s politicians are on board, as is Trudeau and crew on our northern border. The politicians expect to be a part of the ruling elite. Interestingly, the real socialist in Mexico does not seem so eager. “The Great Reset” is not a minor change, and with Biden/Harris in charge, everything looks to be a go. RINOs in the Senate will not stand in the way – they want to be in the ruling class too.
Is it coincidental that this subject has pretty much recently come up on this very influential site??
Yes indeed this is becoming glaringly obvious as they become more emboldened, they are going at it HARD, as they see the evidence of the Dominion machines coming in fast. That great reset depends on them stealing this election. I admit with the DOJ and FBI fully corrupt (not to mention many courts), it’s up there with ‘HARD’, to win. The trouble is, much of our youth have been indoctrinated in the schools and educational institutions and does not understand what is at stake here – therefore do not understand what is going on as they do not understand what they are losing.
I think this little tidbit from Asiaxpat based in Hongcong explains just what THEY have in mind for us and it is on a timetable for next year.
If you thought 2020 was bad 2021 is going to be a doosy.
https://hongkong.asiaxpat.com/news/eds-must-reads/264352/shocking-covid-leak-out-of-canada/
If that’s true, John, all I can say is – wow! And, like I said, the only thing standing in their way seems to be President Donald Trump. The media is fully on board – that explains Fox News abrupt positioning, doesn’t it? The politicians are mostly in, as they want to be in the ruling elite too. The big question is – is the military on board?? All it takes, I’m guessing, is to have key leaders there on board with the takeover.
And, like the comic strip said – poof, it’s gone!
Like I have been saying, the Bolsheviks knew how to deal with an inconvenient powerful working middle class in 1917. Chairman Mao knew in the 60s too. A successful, prosperous, powerful working middle class is a pain for the elites who feel that it is only right that they rule.
Well, it will be interesting to watch the developments over the coming weeks. Does the President bow out, or does he have the support of the military to remain and fight?
WordPress.com customer list is CNN, CBS, and Microsoft is a major ‘partner’ with them. The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, grew up worshiping Karl Marx and represents a growing cancer in America’s long traditions under assault by radical leftists.
The Constitutional 1st Amendment right to Free Speech, the 4th’s right to privacy, and the teeth that protects them, and all others, The 2nd Amendment, is under siege and these despots will hold the levers of govt in a Democrat run administration who lack any moral character.
This is just off the charts. What a disgrace. I am sorry, BUT, once you get out of this nightmare lunatic platform, life will hopefully be smoother (after the ton of work). I see many clever people here and no doubt you are consulting with them as to the most expedient way to deal with an ugly situation. A lot of what we are all going through at the moment in regards to the massive speech repression – will, in the end, be solved, and is already being done (Parler, Rumble, Gab, NewsMax etc), as over half the country (and in fact world) are a lot of people. Do these idiots think that that won’t matter to their bottom line? We will see.
Trouble donating on this site. Seems I get caught up in a “Catch 22” scenario.
Success using PayPal. Too bad one couldn’t use a debit card. But we made a small contribution.
To use someone else’s saying in a little different way. Sundance, where you plant your next tree, we go all. We definitely want a branch where quite a few of us can sit together and continue our. conversations. The way I read this, we need many more branches then when I came on.
Like President Trump’s army of 73.000.000 we are your army of many.
We are with you whatever it takes.
Thank you for all the arrows you are taking for us.
other ISP’s will host your Word Press site, HostMonster been one of many.
Find one you like, backup/archive the complete site and have the new ISP help you with the transfer, which most will do for a extra fee.
I am heartbroken. I cry every time I think about it. I am praying constantly. How can this happen the the most blessed country in the world.
Get on Gab, Sundance. It truly is The Last Bastion of Free Speech.
https://news.gab.com/2020/11/10/gab-com-the-home-of-free-speech-online-sees-record-growth-after-big-tech-election-interference/
Went over to Word Press and read through everything they have on the net. Most of it tells you how good it will be.
Unfortunately THEY LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH.
I do believe this is a violation of federal law.
They are advertising for sale a product/service which they do not really provide.
“I do believe this is a violation of federal law.”
Can you imagine a “federal law” designed to protect those who would expose corruption and defend the original intent of the U.S. Constitution??
Don’t be ridiculous.
I have seen this a few times now, so am making this post for those who are thinking Sundance has any recourse to sue WordPress.
Below is a link to the WordPress Terms of Service (TOS). I’ve noted item 13. This is a standard clause in every TOS. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Windows… They all have it.
So to simplify it….
Wordpress can kick him off at any time, for any reason, and they dont have to tell him they did it, or why.
They retain all authority and control.
https://wordpress.com/tos/
13. Termination
We may terminate your access to all or any part of our Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. We have the right (though not the obligation) to, in our sole discretion, (i) reclaim your username or website’s URL due to prolonged inactivity, (ii) refuse or remove any content that, in our reasonable opinion, violates any Automattic policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, (iii) ask you to make some adjustments, restrict the resources your website uses, or terminate your Services, if we believe your website’s storage or bandwidth usage is out of hand and burdens our systems (which is rare and typically only occurs when a website is used for file sharing or storage), or (iv) terminate or deny access to and use of any of our Services to any individual or entity for any reason. We will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.
Is there an appeals procedure for de-platforming? Not that you’re going to want to stay after this, but it might give you some time to do the preparation that regitiger describes above.
Generally…No. You can email their support desk and get a form email politely telling you F’Off. But no, they pretty much retain all power and control over data.
That being said, this site is mostly text, and normal maintenance of a site includes making a backup of the site. So truly, at most, SD should just need to perform a backup of the site and then upload it to his new host when he procures one.
Unless WordPress has already altered/deleted the sites data and SD hasnt been making back ups of it, I’m not too worried about him getting the data of the website.
I’m so sorry to hear this! I’ve been a lurker for a long time and just started to post, not often posting but lurking everyday. Please keep us up-to-date as to when/where Treehouse 2.0 is a real thing. Thank you for all that you do Sundance! I’m praying for you and this site.