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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Please put me on your list….wherever you land.
Sundance, you should see what platform Anthony Watts (Wattsupwiththat.com) is using. I think he left WordPress. I forget if it was for technical or political reasons.
LBI_Crabbing, I dunno about that. Way down on the bottom of that Watts website, it says Powered by WordPress.
Here is the web site link
https://fightback.law/
This topic truly has made me sad, but I trust Sundance and staff to use discernment to keep us as safe as we’ve been since the site has been setup. May the circle stay unbroken and our little treehouse survives!!!
Another site to possibly contact is gab. They’ve been deplatformed so many times that they’ve resorted to running their own infrastructure. Perhaps they’d be willing to rent some of it to you?
Otherwise, it’s pretty much guaranteed that wherever you go, you’ll simply be deplatformed again. Cancel culture WILL follow you around if they can.
We loyal “TREE-HOUSERS” will follow you around as well. Let not your heart be troubled!
Modern day book burning.
Old fashioned burning still lives. See: seattle, portland, etc…
Please add me too if in fact you have to move. This is where i get my real news. I hope Adrem is making a list. Or as others have suggested maybe you can migrate us all. You have my permission to do me.
I tried posting this earlier and can’t find the comment – not sure why. Apologies if duplicative.
Is Automattic asking you to leave their commercial hosting service wordpress.com? Or are they asking you not to use their open source software avaialble from wordpress.org? The former, while repulsive, would at least be in line with their commercial rights. The latter is terrifying if they can rescind access to open source software.
If it’s being asked to leave wordpress.com, you should be able to migrate your site to the wordpress.org open source software – keeping all content and layout. You’ll need a new hosting provider – wpengine, bluehost, hostgator – all offer wordpress hosting. But I have no idea if those entities are really free speech – so you may find them booting you off just like WordPress.com.
Please let us know if this is preventing you from using open source software. That would be a massive escalation in the war on free speech.
It’s wordpress.com that’s at issue here. simply because of this: https://theconservativetreehouse.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd
My RSS feed finder userscript found that right away. Automatic couldn’t stop anyone from using self-hosted WP, it’s public.
Can you set up your own servers? Be independent?
Amen. Good people will prevail
Get ye to Parler ASAP
Keep your heads up, Treepers! Sundance(& crew), we will stand with you every step of the way in terms of defending this site and just general brotherhood meaning we will follow this to wherever it goes.
How do I subscribe?
The Covid-19 post isn’t anything that we all aren’t thinking about out here in America. Since when do we fold our tents and go home because of an illness? This is not how We The People do things. Something else is going on… in keeping with the Rahm Emmanuel’s “Never let a crisis go to waste” way of thinking.
The self exposure of WordPress’s prejudice is evidence of businesses who support beating up strangers in the streets, threatening them in their homes, removing their voices from the influence of disagreement and destruction of people’s incomes. They cannot remove the Right to Freedom of Speech because it’s law and because that would affect themselves; one by one they cherry pick who is – “not in my backyard.” The same businesses and people who own and run them, publicly abuse people who silence people by the color of their skin. Double mindedness. “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”
Disruptive, deflating, depressing; forcing monumental effort during the most influential of times.
Go. Move. Leave. 200,000 loyalists go with you. 300,000 more will find you. The talk generated will reach a million or more, the passive aggressive WordPress and other businesses will be uncovered; Truth seekers will find or develop another Fog Horn.
Think big Sundance. Bigger then CTH 2.0. Get a fresh vision. WP will be cleaning house; they’re using members to shape minds to think like them-the ultimate censor. The joke was on the members. Now we know.
Businesses can’t survive on the Biden voters. There were too few. And they know that. Biden want’s unity. Unity will not come again. the season for unity has long devolved. Sides have been taken up. Division is sharp. Attacks on the non violent have exposed the sociopathic minds. Never forget the lesson; they break the law and the social rules; they do not regard nor respect people. Except for, by, the color of your skin and who you vote for. That’s their message. Expose them.
And Sundance…King Henry V won his battle against France with fewer then 200,000. men.
We take our lessons from Christ. HE overthrew the strongest government and it’s Emperor with 170 men.
Best of outcomes in your new launch. We’re there with you with our shields raised.
The Rebel Alliance
Please let me know where you move to.
Dearest SD, your family, staff and deplorable chumps. First I wish to thank you for giving me a little branch where I can take refuge. Been here since POTUS and FLOTUS rode down that beautiful escalator !
I know you saw this coming so I have faith in you and in all your preparations before hand. I am sure you will find a good site somewhere. Hopefully all of us will be notified by email or somehow will find you again!.
Did not start commenting until a couple month ago, nothing memorable at all, just silly, funny stuff. Grumpy at times, sorry. I love the kindness here, all the truth and freedom and the great LOVE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL USA found here ! Have seen multi trolls here in the past month and it saddens me, but they are so obvious that is easy to go around those idiots.
Please find all of us good ones again somehow! Thank you again and I LOVE YOU !!
GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL HERE.
The conservative purge is on. Please read wordpress’ bill of rights here. Apparently this does not apply to conservative sites.
Our Bill of Rights
WordPress is licensed under the General Public License (GPLv2 or later) which provides four core freedoms, consider this as the WordPress “bill of rights”:
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
The freedom to redistribute.
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others.
#BoycottWordpress! Watch them plummet like Fox News!
Hey there Sundance, this is painful news. I can’t imagine ten years of work and such an unknown future. It’s also immensely sad that this has happened in our country, that any voice would be silenced.
I expect each of us should face the reality that we will be censored we will not be allowed to hear from our President in the immediate future. Please make a plan to meet at your county courthouse Saturday morning at 10:00am if this happens. Please Oath keepers join us and provide guidance.
I spent most of yesterday trying to get information about the server, impossible to get facts about that and plenty of contradiction. At this moment it is nearly impossible to get much clarity about current events.
The light has been dimmed very low.
God bless all
THIS IS JUST PART OF THE PLANNED erasure “AFTER THE ELECTION” as in PLANNED deletion of free speech ( other than theirs)
Our Team would be honored to help the site out.
Already sent a contact email this morning, be looking for it, the same one in this reply details.
Looking forward!
Thank you, but give us some time to reply. We’ve been flooded with hundreds of questions and suggestions since yesterday!
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<3 WE LOVE YOU <3 !!!
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“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – – – Thomas Jefferson
Fix Bayonets!
Love this. Thank you.
Kulak69 ! WOW ! My new bumper sticker !!
Not a problem, not a great blog does a WordPress make, there are others, God Bless you I use your articles on my site frequently. This is an out rage. Please advise who we can find you. Jim
My site: https://whatyouthoughtiwentaway.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/president-trump
President Trump will not concede this election for one very important reason
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We have identified a Multi-Media Building ready for purchase! It will not last long! Please do not allow the liberals to grab another broadcasting platform away from Conservative hands! The Tree House and other conservative sites could be safely based here. But first, we must come together and buy the building.
This a large 14,000 square foot “Multi-Media TV Building” that comes with a 3-camera TV studio sound stage, audience area, a radio center, some internet podcast rooms, a conference room, a print graphics area, a green room, a kitchen/break room, internet T-1 lines, offices, desks & conference tables, plenty of parking and yes, all the equipment computer & TV equipment you’ll need for broadcasting, …etc.
TDLCapital Investments is looking for a small pool of investors who are interested in purchasing this building. The ideal is 30 investors with equal shares, but of course, we are flexible. The purchase price of this building is $3,500,000. The commercial loan would be $2,000,000. We are thinking of raising the $1,500,000 cash down, but first, there must be interests from lots of conservatives who want to get our own Multi-Media platform. Please spread & post this message far and wide. I can be reached Treg – at – TDLCapital. Thanks again, Treg 11/16/20
I am shocked! Yes, when I heard about this, I figured it was because your audience has grown substantially and the encouragement of freedom and exposure of fraud to so many must have been the trigger. I do want updates on where you go, not only because I often reference your articles and provide links in my own blog, but realize that such large circulation may no longer be the “trigger” to being unplatformed.
I forsee a red wave of WordPress account cancellations in the near future. Their user base will plummet like Fox New’s ratings did overnight. WordPress should have listened & learned from that example. It’s not too late for them to rescind their notice of eviction, yet they have not. Keep going and don’t look back. We all understand that it’s a challenge to restablish after being uprooted, but let’s be optimistic about this….this might be more of a good thing than bad as we have discovered WordPress to be part of the problem in today’s society. We don’t want anything to do with that level of toxicity.
Time for WordPress to retire. https://www.websitetooltester.com/en/blog/wordpress-alternatives/
Why not use wordpress.org? The self-hosted version? It’s mostly uncensorable. Someone would have to take down your server, if you’re running your own server, that’s hard to do.
Hope ! Yes, and do like Killary and put your very own server in your spare bathroom !!! In case you have no room elsewhere in the house. love ya SD
I have been a long time daily reader but never signed up or donated, until today . My heart is burdened and angered by this news because I know now that the big spiritual battle has begun.
I ask God to protect this family of honorable men and women. There is still good in this world and it is worth fighting for.
Acts 4:31
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they continued to speak the Word of God with freedom and boldness and courage.
Thank you for your kind words and donation Restin.
I’ve rarely commented here – even as I rarely miss a day of reading…my appreciation for all you’ve done these many years…
Tried to make a donation yesterday and it did not seem to go thru .I will try again now . Good luck Sundance and see you folks on the other side. Long live CTH you rock !!!! Maga !!!!
Please let me know when you get a new platform…set up
Mark Steyn talking about this on Rush right now!
Yes! He is talking about CTH by name, and WordPress deplatforming it.
that’s how I found out about it.
Thanks TwoLaine!
President Elect TwoLaine
THIS IS YUGGGGE !!!
And if the 2020 Election is overturned? Then what?
Log into your servers if possible and back up your databases (mysqldump …) and the directory containing the wordpress instance. Move to a new hosting provider, such as Linode. Point your domain at the new server, and reinstall. I’ve had to move my site before due to bad service.
I haven’t commented much over the years, but I will follow you anywhere!
Same here!!
Use wordpress.org, you just have to find a server to install it on and it can’t be censored, unless someone goes after the server itself.
There is a parallel of today to the times after Jesus resurrection when believers were driven underground. An increase of followers of our Lord followed.
Skip any legal effort to stay on. You can migrate your content to any of several other hosting companies. I believe you can continue to use WordPress as a software solution; I have several blogs hosted on BlueHost and they all use WordPress as the content management system, but WordPress has zero control over what I write. (My biggest blog is about depression glass, so not controversial.)
#DumpWordPress. I’ve deleted my account. They warn you “this is forever!” – as if that’s a bad thing … 🙂
This is truly another sad day for freedom of speech and our country in general. VISA tried to deplatform gab.com by taking away their ability to use VISA for payments (donations, subscriptions, etc.) They beat it. CTH can beat this too!
WordPress.com and the WordPress software are two different things.
WordPress.com is a commercial hosting company that has integrated the WordPress site building software on its hosting platform. This is what you are hosting your WordPress site on.
You can take your WordPress site (files and database) and copy them to a number of other hosting companies that support the WordPress web building software. Just select on that is unbiased. One tool I have used in the past to backup and clone a WordPress site is https://updraftplus.com/
To me the biggest issue is your domain name theconservativetreehouse.com. I see that it is registered with wildwestdomains.com. If you own this name (which I hope you do) you can reconfigure your domain for a new hosting company’s platform once your site is copied over. Hope this gives you some more ideas and options.
All the best to you! I’ll be donating to CTH today.
Try GoDaddy. It was founded by Bob Parsons, a rock-ribbed conservative who contributes to conservative causes and candidates here in Scottsdale. He has sold most of his share of the company but remains on the board. I don’t think you’ll see such censorship from GoDaddy.
WordPress deplatformed “Fellowship of the Minds,” Dr. Eowyn’s site, years ago because of their posts about Sandy Hook, so none of this should surprise anyone. I am not political, not left or right wing, I am “no wing” but have been left or right wing in the past. While I do not like Trump (and certainly I do not like Biden and especially Harris), the Democrats aided by the tech oligarchs DID steal the election from Trump for sure. Blessings to you finding a new host.
I’m contacting WP.com support with the subject, “Conservative TreeHouse did not violate any of WordPress.com’s terms of service.” Here’s the message I’m about to send.
If they had, you would’ve dealt with it long ago. Instead, you waited until after the election to censor them. I’ve been administering self-hosted WordPress sites for about 15 years now. Never have I seen the level of censorship, that was undertaken yesterday from you.
I’m a Libertarian, and believe you have the right to do what you’re doing, however in this case, I believe it’s under false pretenses.
I as well as others, have encouraged Conservative TreeHouse to use the self-hosted version of WordPress, preferably on a server that’s amenable to them being there. If attempts are made to censor those efforts, we will truly know where you stand, and my WordPress use will be over.
Where are you going? Will you leave behind your new web page, are you going underground?
Greeting from the Uk,
This will be my last post here or on WordPress.
God bless you all, I look forward to when our paths cross again.
It Begins: Conservative Treehouse “Deplatformed” from WordPress
By Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, November 15, 2020 at 5:46pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/begins-conservative-treehouse-deplatformed-wordpress/
Best of luck! Thank you for honesty and your fight against corruption.
I would highly recommend https://masto.host/. It is a decentralized service with great rates and no political agenda. Setup is beyond easy, the service is owned by a guy who seems to not be able to be bought, and was originated because of the acceleration of deplatforming. Check ’em out, you won’t be sorry.
Foucault is the guy who created an updated version of sadistic natseaizm. It is now rebranded (ungrammatically, of course) as “woke” It is natseaizm 2.0 (with Maoist characteristics).
https://libertywebmaster.com/ will host it
This has probably been mentioned as I di not take time to read all of the responses but I am almost certain that this notice came from WordPress.com which is a hosting platform, not WordPress.org which actually manages the open source building of WordPress content management system or CMS. If WordPress.com will no longer host your website, we would be happy to do so. If interested, let me know here: https://inspiremarketing.io/contact/