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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WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two separate organizations. Simply transfer to a self-hosted setup such as WordPress.org hosted by, say, NameCheap based in Canada. More generally, people need to be more proactive by having redundancy. For example, don’t rely on primarily one platform (youtube, gmail, facebook, twitter). Cross market/post. This should be common knowledge for everybody including Conservative Treehouse. No sympathy for slackers at this point in the game.
Yes, exactly… it’s only the host not the software
It should be relatively procedural to move.
I also agree with the idea of backup host.
I can give you recommendations for both servers and webmaster developers / maintenance
It’s all very well and good saying things like that, but please understand that some of us older people have no idea what all the computer talk means. I’ve trouble with email FHS. Please have patience with us. Thank you for listening. ?
They’re starting by eliminating the most effective threats (first). Consider it an honor! CTH must have done some serious damage to the enemies of God.
This is by far the best site on the internet. Thank you, Sundance, for all you do. A donation is on the way.
I’m wondering if this has something to do with what Sundance did this summer when he took his research to D.C.
I’ve tried to warn the sheeple. But they continue to be arrogant thinking the are armed and will take down the Marxists. They have no idea what’s about to befall them. The deplatforming is just a little stage before the kill. See the Marxist are wise as their lord is Satan. He easily out maneuvers the sheeple time and time again. So they you off from your audience, isolating you then you vanish for good. I really don’t want it to be this way but unfortunately it’s the only way the sheeple might recognize war when they are in it.
I heard a rummer that God wins.
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<= May I suggest contacting GAB – they've copped worse than this!
To the point you can only donate to them via bitcoin or personal mailed cheques!
Is WordPress.com kicking you off? WordPress the software is open source so all you need is a backup of your files and then find a hosting platform that will welcome you and you can get back up and running quickly. Otherwise buy a server and host it yourself in a local server farm. Just remember you can keep everything exactly as is. They can’t kick you off WordPress the software which is completely separate from WordPress.com the hosting company owned by Automattic.
I had not paid attention to you until Devin Nunes’ post here:
https://parler.com/post/201df675d5054d06a412153a343a91c0
So, thanks to your travail, you have a new friend.
Ira
Freedom. The true American way. Let freedom reign! I will stand with you!
So here’s my question: will the existing content still be available to read or does all of it disappear? I can still read content from Sipsey Street Irregulars and that site closed up in 2016 (by choice). I don’t think that site used WordPress – not sure if that makes a difference. Anyone know? Thx.
I believe the content will be deleted. SD needs to protect and download all his content. That’s going to be a lot of work!
Thx for responding even though it’s what I was afraid of. What I wouldn’t give for the ability and equipment to pull everything off and store it somehow!
I don’t know if this web hosting company hosts blogs, but if they do, stay away from DigitalSpace.net, a division of Hostopia! I had a business website and all my business email with them, and they lost an entire month of email! Their tech support was totally inept and kept closing the trouble ticket without fixing it. Moved my site and email to another company and they are great. It was a month-long technology nightmare.
Mass migration from WordPress seems in order. Give them what they want and let them die.
I’m canceling my account when CTH is off.
I believe WordPressis open source. You can take your content, and setup a WordPress server on a different Web hosting service. And you won’t have to change anything about your site.
Hopefully the cavalry will be here soon
Locals. Contact dave rubin
Sundance,
This is a website that was recommended to me that you may find helpful (or not):
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
Warm Regards,
Phillip
Sue them! It cost under $100 to file a lawsuit.
Unbelievable!!! ENOUGH ppl!! Together we stand or one by one they will pick us off!!
Sundance–Devin Nunes just made a post on Parler.–IMPORTANT! Please share with all your friends. This is what’s coming. The gladiator pic with Give them nothing. Then–The Treehouse is Deplatformed….The Last Refuge. And then shows theconservativetreehouse.com
Ok..so checked the Impressions—-It appeared in 40K peoples feeds.
and so far (8minutes after posted) is was echoed 297 times. Echo is like FB shared.
Don’t shoot the messenger for belonging to Parler. I don’t watch news, no FB and no twitter.
P.S. can’t imagine life without Sundance and CTH. Just let me know where you set up next and I will be right there in a heartbeat! You are THE best teacher and you excel in teaching the economics in a way even I can understand. Don’t disappear.
Laughing…he used your pic in his post….Give them nothing!
We will do what we have to so the site survives. This flame must not be extinguished.
Sounds like 1984 is here, yeah I lived through that wonderful year and everything else since 1946. Hi everyone I’m new here and if I had known CTH existed I would have definitely been a participant.
I’m really sorry this has occurred but I’d still like to participate so I’m leaving my email and name below so that you can keep me posted.
Keep fighting the good fight! May I suggest Parler?
Contact me if you need help finding a more bulletproof hosting provider.
I vote for cockbox.org.
#WOLVERINES
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just in case…
12 years ago I used WordPress for my blog/site formatting. WordPress did not do hosting back then, so I bought my own domain name and server service. You should be able to copy/download all your data/coding and upload it to a new site. They are sick. I know that these people don’t believe the crap that’s said about us. They just use it as a sick excuse to extol some pathetic sense of power.
Can I get on your email list in case you get shut down?
I’m an Open Source Specialist and Networking Consultant with 20+ yrs experience. I’d be more than happy to assist with your migration to another hosting company, building out your own servers either self hosted and or mirrored and load balanced servers even migrating you to another platform such as Joomla or Drupal. I’ve been doing exactly this kind of work for 20+ years. I’ll use your contact form to reach out to you directly. Recommendations I’d make right now is setting up 1/4 hourly database backups to offsite storage, verifying their integrity and keep them all plus any and all logs in case of any malicious attacks against your site.
Totally agree withh Mr. Piddles . Anyone on Twitter quit them and join Gab or Parler.
Quit Facebook.
Cut the cable cord on Fox et al.
They deplatform CTH.
We de-monetize them.
you know i just saw something on a post about the simpsons last episode . Anyway .. Jesus is coming soon and God wins at the end!
Please SIDNEY POWELL, do everything you can. You only need to overturn Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Trump was way ahead Biden by 100,000+, 300,00+ & 700,000+ respectively … when all of a sudden the counting CEASED … very strange, highly irregular and suspicious … I comfortably went to sleep thinking that his lead was insurmountable… but lo and behold… I was shocked and dismayed to find out in the morning that Biden already surpassed Trump – all his big leads in those crucial states GONE … POOF!
For the sake of the INTEGRITY of America (which supposedly is the Most Powerful Nation on the planet) … I implore you together with Mayor Rudy & Trey Gowdy … WIN THIS FOR TRUMP !!!
Because if Cheat’n Biden gets in the White House … ALL IS LOST … USA SUCKS!
What can I do to help you continue the good cause you are doing?
https://patriotinternet.com/vps-web-hosting-service/managed-servers/
praying that God intervenes, If we as a people keep allowing this to happen we are heading down a Dark path
We as a people cannot just fold up and quit. We have to fight these forces with as much power and reserve as we can. If we don’t fight, we as a people will lose everything. God is watching. I’m sure that’s not what he wants for his flock. For us to just roll over. There will be judgment and we need to be on the right side of God.
You should join Wimkin or Parler and Rumble!
Because WordPress.com is censoring your forum and “deplatforning” you, I have deleted my WordPress blog because their ideology, terms, values, and unwillingness to host and support free speech go against my beliefs and values. Carry on the good fight. WordPress is teetering on their own self-destruction.
I’m willing to assist anyway I can. I’ve worked in IT for over 20 years including multiple content management systems. I also own/operate a small hosting and domain registry business.
Thank you Sundance, for your resolve. You will forever be a voice in the wilderness. I’ll be waiting and eager to join back up!
I am a small man. But if I can help you, maybe with money (not much, but some), please ask. In the meantime, I pray:
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do Thou, oh prince of the heavenly host, cast into Hell Satan and the other evil spirits, who roam through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
ALL platforms should be avoided by wise folks of any stripe. Right now it is the Communists- in a decade it will be the Christians removing those notorious meanies from their digital boxes.
I understand you gnash you teeth old boy but… if you could play Jack Dorsey seeking to control the messaging of millions to global minds the Conservative Treehouse peeps would likely be equal and I wager- far worse.
Hence… get your own dotcom- learn to code or hire a coder- build your own brand on server hosting that has zero qualms with speech for the win.
We did that in the old days remember?
Just Move your website. WordPress the open source software/platform your site is built with, is not the same as Auttomatic the webhosting company which that site is hosted on. auttomatic is owned by wordpress i think someone said here. Go check out namecheap.com and you can move the entire site there
Try the sourcing for wix Israeli,and not in it.
So buy a server and host your own site……
“Resist much. Obey little.” ~Walt Whitman
Why haven’t I heard of you? Sign me up!
Prayers for Sundance, the Admins, all the Treepers, our President, his family and our Nation.
Time to BURN UP the phone lines!
EVERYONE needs to start calling your elected (or installed?) reps and senators.
Tell them:
The censorship has got to STOP!
Tell them they need to do something about the censorship which is OUT OF CONTROL and to protect the 1st Amendment!!
Remind them THEY are OUR EMPLOYEES!!
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
(202)224-3121
https://www.senate.gov/senators/index.htm
A big thank you to Sundance and all the Admins for making this site such a great place. May God bless all of you
It’s time to beat the left at their own rules, the rules they have brought to the table. I googled WordPress and found a list of their top 40 clients, most of which are liberals! Patriots do as they do, boycott all of their top 40 liberal clients! They see profits drop they will be highly peed! Take no prisoners people they play dirty, we must bring the fight to them!
God bless. May you prevail
??Stay Strong??A2
Please notify wh when you become re established.
I discovered the Treehouse in 2016 during the primaries. There were so many times when it appeared the media and the GOP would try to stop the Trump candidacy and the emerging MAGA movement, but this site became a literal “last refuge” where I could always find hope, and always find the truth. I know that this community, and the larger MAGA movement, will survive and thrive no matter what happens next.
Disturbing news, gives me a pit in my stomach.
The attempts to cut off free speech are scary, that the masses are unaware this is happening right under their noses is even scarier.
Bless you Sundance for keeping up the fight.
I found this morning that certain conservative blogs like ‘Moonbattery’ has already been ‘403 Forbidden’ . Patriots must keep their powder dry!!
Please sign me up and notify me when you get reestablished.
I would love to join