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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“All things are possible to those who believe” Mark 9:23
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I have always hated WordPress for their technical incompetence. Now I have another reason to hate it.
Get your own servers and a T-3. And migrate everything over.
People please donate. It’s very doable but there will be costs.
A friend of mine suggested self-hosted WordPress. Perhaps using an off-shore registered domain (since go-daddy appears to have no issue deplatforming domains as well). Self-hosted wordpress would have the advantage of not having to learn an entirely new thing.
Eventually we will all have to switch to decentralized blockchain based internet schemes to avoid centralized domain control. Those technologies don’t appear to be ready yet though.
Your best bet is to find a host outside the USA, preferably in free Eastern Europe. Load up WP on your server and run your site business as usual. Make sure you have a HD to back up to because you can’t trust the Cloud either. You should’ve been archiving and backing up all the while. Get in touch with Glenn Reynolds from Instapundit.com to find out who is his host. Besides, Glenn is a legal eagle with a sharp stiletto. It would be good to contact and listen to him.
Get a document ready to share with people who learned to code. Looks like they want to help.
They will need to know how you are storing your data, what backups you have, what features you need. They already have a preliminary plan of action in place:
https://thedonald.win/p/11Q8lVQege/x/c/1BkBE2BFPV
Isn’t your website is hosted by Automaticc (San Francisco)? It sounds like you are not being kicked off the WordPress platform, which is open-source software to create websites, but rather the company which is hosting it, which is why it’s telling you to MIGRATE your site off their hosting servers. That means you can move it in tact to another hosting company. There are veteran-owned hosting companies out there (search veteran-owned web hosting). I hope a conservative-owned hosting company contacts you in the meantime.
I only ask because I had to migrate a wordpress site to another hosting company (for a different reason), and the request was almost exactly the same. We were given notice that we needed to migrate our site by a certain date. We moved it in 100% in tact to new hosting without any issues.
WHAT EVER IT TAKES!!!!
Donated! This is THE site for deep info. This was bound to happen
WordPress is free and open source so they can’t make you use/develop new software. They’re just booting you from their hosting service. All you should need to do is export your data, transfer your domain name to a new registrar (assuming they’re your registrar), find a hosting provider that protects free speech, host an instance of WordPress on the new provider, and then import your data.
Sundance,
Here is someone who is offering a solution. Will it work?
Please look into Klicked.com They are a hosting site for Conservatives/Free Speech. When I was designing websites back in the day, around 2006, WordPress was one of the only hosting sites in town. I hated it then and, when other more updated and less restrictive sites eventually started popping up, I changed and never looked back. It will be a blessing in disguise to get under the oppression of WordPress and move on to a friendlier hosting site. I have read many good things about Klicked. Good luck and, to your hundreds of thousands of followers and fans, we are looking forward to seeing and knowing you are the heck out of wordpress.
So, WP is so principled that it can’t bear to have any association with content that doesn’t match its beliefs, even if (or especially if) the differing content is comprised of facts and truth. Sounds like they attended a meeting with the despots of Twitter, Facebook, Google, and the MSM and this notice to CTH is their action item. Heaven forbid people get exposed to facts. Let’s consider it an honor to transfer to a more sensible venue – one that believes in the founding principles of this country. Thanks for all you do, Sundance.
WordPress has gone full-bore Socialism too. Free speech and the 1A are no longer important to them either. May the plague of a thousand locusts descend upon their house!
WordPress has gone full-bore Socialism too. Free speech and the 1A are no longer important to them either. May the plague of a thousand locusts descend upon their house!
2020 is a year never to be forgotten. Mainly as an all out assault on anything and anyone that’s good. Perhaps the CTH move will be for the best. I believe it will. Looking forward to a day we are not always on the defense.
Looking forward to CTH 2.0, bigger and better than ever! The petty tech tyrants will look back and curse the day they messed with us.
Free Republic was just forced to migrate – is now up and running again as of a few hours ago. You might want to contact the site owners, Jim and John Robinson of Fresno, CA to see how they did it.
[email protected]
(559) 273-1400
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3906145/posts
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3906214/posts
…and yet another player shows their true colors. Remember them, and all the others, Patriots when they ask for reconciliation. Make sure to respond accordingly.
I can’t wait to see what Sundance has in store for us. He’s our very own mini Trump. Same insights and vision, just doesn’t sport the big title.
Ideally what would happen here is that some conservative lawyers would donate their time pro bono to take WordPress to court. But conservative lawyers never seem to have the same “fire in the belly” as their left-wing counterparts, who are happy to defend even Muslim terrorists pro bono.
Trump must prevail! The commies are making it clear that they’re coming for us with Joe in the WH.
They said we must be punished for wrongthink. Disgusting pigs will not win.
Over my dead body will I accept this type of censorship! Stop and let it all sink in, how far we are being manipulated and controlled as to what we can and cannot do, where and how we can patronize businesses, how we can socialize even with our own families. Now, what we are allowed to read legitimate political commentary?
I can’t be philosophical about this. It is outrageous and a total violation of our civil liberties as guaranteed in the Constitution.
Sundance, you can surely get another platform, but I am hoping that you challenge this censorship all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. You have led an army of Patriots with the steady hand of truth, facts and information. We can write letters; we can donate for legal costs; We can create a hullabaloo to raise awareness of this injustice not only to you, but to each and every one of us who follow you.
Are there any Treepers who have the where with all to lead this fight?
Love to you, Sundance.
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I developed many, many sites over the years using MS Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and WordPress self-hosted. In all instances I used Go Daddy for hosting. Many might say something negative about Go Daddy but I never, ever had a problem with them. Their support was always A+, I actually talked to people I could understand on shore. They even did some migration work for me off other platforms seamlessly. It’s pay to play but once again, I highly recommend migrating your WordPress site to Go Daddy, they have no control over your content when you self-host so your current look can stay the same. I’d also apply the Disqus commenting plugin and use that.
see my comment below
Jihadwatch recommends a non-managed hosting service using wordpress open source install
Godaddy is enemy held ground, they are social justice converged. Look up what they did with Gab.
https://www.cnet.com/news/gab-is-down-as-godaddy-paypal-pull-service-following-synagogue-shooting/
I would go aboard for webhosting. It is sad to admit that there is more freedom of speech in foreign country than in USA.
The result in the discussion format will only be better. I have never appreciated the WordPress format. Carry on Sundance, we will be there!
Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons, currently owns about 70% is a conservative and proud veteran.
Error on my part, Bob Parsons is no longer involved in Go Daddy. Sorry
He has not had an active role in the business since he left its chairmanship in 2014 and the board entirely in 2018. He sold off the majority of his stock to a consortium of private equity firms in 2011. The current GoDaddy is a cesspool of SJW and would drop this site at the first whiff of controversy.
At this point, larger conservative sites need to stop using commercial hosting services. They are for mickeymouse free little blogs and cheap websites. Get a webserver, get backup storage (not the cloud), get a decent connection, and be your own host.
I have a music site on Fat Cow and it uses WordPress (just auto installed 5.1.8). Not to savy on all of the web stuff, but have not had any problems for 10 years or so. Have to think that this experience will only place you in a better/stronger position – take care friend!
Sundance, so sorry to see this. It is REPREHENSIBLE. Praying for you and for a seamless transition to a new platform. I know you will keep us informed. This is war and we will prevail.
Do the people who can help with a SAFE & PERMANENT site know?
Does Don Jr know?
Also – maybe some of you shouldn’t have been so hard on Michael Savage, same thing is happening to him. With Rush dying all we have left on radio are deceitful scum like Buck Sexston & Ben “The Globalist” Shapiro.
Conspiracy theory, but is it a coincidence that Rush and Bongino have both gotten Cancer?
Talk radio was the foundation upon which conservative resistance built. The Dems tried to take it on directly, launching a libby alternative, which folded in ignominious defeat.
They are working desperately to turn this country into a Conmunist country, by stamping out ALL dissenting voices, in ALL mediums, and when they say “by any means neccesary” they MEAN it.
There is NO depravity which they will not stoop to, in quest of their goal. There is NO negotiating with evil, no compromise they will accept, and no deal they will adhere to.
Get over, once and for all, the SHOCK, the “I can’t BELIEVE they would DO this!” as shock causes no responce, as you deal with it. In fact, ASSUME the WORST, until proven otherwise is probably the best bet.
Face it, like the CCP does with “dissident groups” they want to use us for slave labor, until we ‘win’ the organ donor lottery.
THAT is the fate of Deplorables, should they prevail. Anyone who has posted “If’s” about what would/could be done, should Biden be declared the winner, is either the enemy (most likely) or delusional.
There is NO “IF”. ITS CRUNCH TIME.
Why is Buck Sexton deceitful scum?
Was it WordPress or the Hosting Service being used that claimed an incompatibility of terms?
WordPress is the free software with GNU Public License. I’m not sure they can decide what may and may not be posted using public license software. If it’s the hosting service, just get a new one.
Hosting
https://hosting.review/web-hosting/monthly-web-hosting/
https://smluc.org/conservative-web-hosting/
In any case, back up your entire MySQL database from your WordPress account so it can be uploaded to a new host if you choose one.
You “can” build your own server and host your own site, but it is usually not cost competitive to do so. https://hosting.review/tutorial/how-to-host-your-own-website/
Agree on self-hosting. If his ISP allows it, he should consider this. Add a tip jar link for readers and off you go until a better alternative presents. I could care less for the graphics. It could be plain text 1996 style and I’d read it. Godspeed Sundance!
I’m thinking it was the Hosting service that got feisty. Whatfinger (Drudge Alternative) is a WordPress based site but I don’t know who hosts them. Whoever they use as Host isn’t as snooty as the one hosting CTH at present. Maybe Sundance can contact their webmaster. https://www.whatfinger.com/
The Socialist Media police are at it for the Demonizer Party. May a plague of a thousand locusts descend upon all their houses.
If you think I will say Seig Heil to you Nazi Socialists, you would be wrong. You want to be Hitler, that’s your choice WordPress. One last time for you to shred the 1A. Is this totally voluntary or are you afraid of UpChucky’s threat?
wordpress.com is not wordpress.org
looks like jihadwatch has gone thorugh this.
“”While it would not be possible to restrict use of the WordPress source code which is publicly available and built by volunteers, and distributed at wordpress.org, its is “open source”. wordpress.com is very different. It is a commercial enterprise which has some free options, the codebase being very similar, but proprietary; and includes the hosting aspect as part of the package.
I would suggest anyone using wordpress.com (not .org) or for that matter blogger, dump them immediately, and migrate to a non-managed host using the open source version at wordpress.com, I say non-managed host, as managed hosting services seem to be far more likely to be pressured by hate groups such as SPLC into removing services. Non-managed hosting services would include AWS, Linode and my favorite at the moment DigitalOcean (includes referral link).””
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/wordpress-com-deplatforms-those-critical-of-islam
For those of you feeling demoralized, that is what they want to happen.
Stiffen your resolve, we are of sterner stuff than to roll over to those that want to be our masters.
We are Americans. We are born free, we are meant to live free. We come from forefathers that personified the goal of freedom. They embraced the challenges to bequeath it to us.
Let us make our forefathers proud. The fight for liberty is ongoing.
Let us show we have the same spirit.
The Last Refuge, indeed.
Indeed! As I have read elsewhere, “We are not descended from fearful men.”
This happened to theburningplatform.com some years ago. Don’t remember if they were hosted by WP or not, but he (Jim Quinn) lost all ad revenue and now runs on donations, and his audience is bigger than ever. Also he hired “the man with no name”, a webmaster who wishes to remain anonymous, who implemented safeguards against hacking and DDOS attacks.
There are plenty of web hosting companies who are not censoring. You may need to host server(s) at your expense but there are plenty of options for that as well.
Long Live CTH!
I honestly don’t know why anyone is surprised. WordPress has terminated several conservative blogs I know about, with the last one I know of being Western Rifle Shooters Association, which was terminated with no notice, and no recourse.
You should have expected this, Sundance, given the history of leftist run sites de-platforming anyone who doesn’t kneel to the prevailing Narrative™.
You can keep using WordPress, BTW. Download the open source tarball yourself and get it up and running on a web provider of your choice (preferably one that is resistant to pressure from leftist hate mobs.)
https://wordpress.org/download/
It will be ok. I sure don’t want to lose track of everyone/this place. I’ve been here daily for so long.
I know that good will win over evil but it sure feels like the battle is real, scary and deadly.
On the bright side, you now know with certainty that the perspectives and facts discussed here are a threat to the master narrator’s plan.
I am not tech savvy so I cannot offer you any potential solutions but I want to take the time to express my utmost gratitude for all you have done. May God bless you always and guide you in future actions.
We will go where ever you go…
I jokingly stated some time ago that the time will come when we are reduced
to running printing presses in our garages/basements and distributing newsletters
by hand throughout our conservative world and/or neighborhoods.
I am saddened to realize that we are getting closer to that being a reality
This is exactly how Communist work. They cancel anyone that doesn’t tow the party line. We have friends that grew up in Communist countries and they always said Obama was clearly a Communist and how can America do this to their country.
Sydney Powell asking for donations at defendingtherepublic.org
The kids over at thedonald.win are all clammoring for theconservativetreehouse.win
Maybe Sundance can find out about that? Thedonald found a home there after being deplatformed by Reddit.
What is the name of the hosting provider? WordPress is just software that runs on the server.
Check out 1776 hosting.
Free speech censorship based on political hatred of differing thoughts and ideas.
The Democrat cult truly are the Borg.
If you need any web dev type help… I’m in.
You can switch your hosting to another provider and use the open source version of WordPress.
Little to no noticeable change for the users.
CTH deplatformed
Rumors that Durham is shutting down investigations
Fauci saying masks forever
Bolton, Noonan, and other faux conservatives, who are all wealthy, and abke to weather s storm, saying Trump lost
GOP ignoring the importance of this moment
We’re going from bad to worse. At some point a hot civil war would be better than this slow, cold enslavement.
When the Communist globalist steal the Ballot box and the dark curtain of tyranny hangs heavy across the land, another type of box (cartridge) may become the only solution or choice that we have left. Our founders and forefathers faced this same dilemma. We will soon, like it or not, have to face the same decision and dilemma. May God help us make the right decision and prevail to preserve our way of life, liberty and the Republic.
One more thing. The 73+ million patriots in this country may have to form a new Constitutional AF (America First) Party in order to root out the corruptness of both the CPUSA Democrats and the GOPe Globalist Uniparty that have become a scourge upon our land. Keep your powder dry and stay vigilant.
Hey WordPress chew on that thought a while! WHATEVER IT TAKES! to remain free.
Now WordPress is guilty of outright censorship of conservative voices. Their actions indicate they are a publisher. Congress: void section 302 so they can be sued.
Congress … do something. If not, President Trump, use all powers at your disposal to do something.
Wow!
Thank you for being here and sharing your talents with us. I really enjoy reading CTH and your magnificent artwork. The Lord will provide!
This is an abrogation of the First Amendment and, pursuant to obviating obscene and prejudicial language, Consertive Treehouse likely has an excellent case.
Consider contacting American Center for Law and Justice to litigate on your behalf. If those of us who are Constitutionalists continue to fail in forcefully opposing this evil, as horrific as it currently is, it will only get worse.
How is it a first amendment issue? WordPress.com is a private company that provides free blog hosting to individuals under its own terms and conditions.
We all sign up for user agreements that have terms written the legal arms of bigtech, and relinquish any rights or recourse we may have.
Correct sDee. If people would just read the first amendment, they would see.
Instead, they just take someone else’s word for meanings.
Yes! Whatever It Takes.
(I never liked WordPress and always thought it was incompatible with TCH’s mission.)
Godspeed, Sundance (and not you, WordPress).
Disgusting, but not surprising. Not in the least.
Same here. I am not surprise that WordPress censored the CTH. You’re not the only one. As WordPress has a long history of censoring anyone they disagree with 🙁
I suggest to consider those 50+ alternatives to WordPress in my comment at https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/15/the-treehouse-is-deplatformed/comment-page-9/#comment-9162154
Most important of all for CTH, with OVH.com, there is NO censorship if your content is lawful