Wow. I JUST postd about this last week. Specifically the treehouse!
I said they rely on WordPress too much, and WordPress could take them down, and WordPress probably would!
I didn't know CTH uses WordPress as their actual HOST! But ANY site using WordPress as their platform/Content Management System has very deep connections to dependencies on WordPress. A LOT of the functionality relies on WordPress, even if your site is actually hosted somewhere else.
And they need to get their domain registered somewhere else, preferably overseas.
I would never use WordPress. I've used them on several sites in the past, for ease of setup, but that was for some black hat SEO type stuff. I don't use WP anymore.
I hope the mods and devs here at TDW have multiple backup plans, for hosting and for domain registration. Isn't there something that the government could do to seize the domain name if they wanted to? This is serious
This is why blockchain is so important. We have to decentralize the internet again. The corruption will just keep spreading and once-noble organizations like WordPress will be infiltrated and consumed.
Blockchain is not the magic solution. Blockchain is like socialism, all it takes is one greedy asshole to corrupt the whole system. Neither socialism nor blockchain will work at scale. What's to stop Bill Gates and George Soros from buying enough datacenters to control 80+% of the ledgers?
Torrents are a much better model for decentralization, perhaps blockchain can help with unofficial trust management of seeds, but should not be relied upon entirely.
A wise man once said: "Do not put all eggs in one basket."
CTH Editors: do not freak out. WordPress website may have banned them. But there are many other companies who also offer WordPress Hosting. You can export all existing articles (with comments) and migrate to another web host. Heck, you can buy your own webserver, install WordPress and host it yourself!
This is what I don't understand. Is the WordPress website and hosting service kicking them off their hosting? I work with WordPress a lot and so I assumed that WordPress was using this moment to go woke and start pulling its actual software use from site builders who built on a WP platform regardless of hosting. Which would be insane and incredible. I don't remember terms of service though for the software. So if it's just hosting, then CT just has to roll up their sleeves, get to work, and then maybe file a lawsuit after.
First they should get a protonmail account to back up all their content (in addition to physical drives they hold themselves). I don't think protonmail does hosting, but they will not look at your files or erase what is there.
Yup, it's finally come to your home. The fight has come to your doorstep. Even if you just have an online business, big tech will come after you for political opinions.
You sound like one of those neocons in DC who excuses everything Big Tech does, including shutting down free speech if it doesn't go along with their groupthink.
100% is . Our website got taken down by them because we supported MAGA. After BLM and fenty floyd, a lot of shit was flung at us and leftist assholes reported our site in numbers because we dared to post about our support for law enforcement on social media pages.
We learnt a good lesson - to have our own hosting and not depend on any fucking service provider.
If you have a business, then you likely have a business internet connection. If you know how to do it, you could get a Raspberry Pi (or similar), use Cloudflare's free plan, and self-host your website.
But only do this if you have a business internet connection. Residential internet connections typically have a "no servers" clause in their ToS.
If you want someone else to host it, then Epik perhaps?
I self host my family business's website using Wordpress (even though I use Wordpress, they can't deplatform me because I am self hosting) with Elementor. I am considering a switch to something like Django CMS, though, because PHP (the programming language that Wordpress is written in) is kinda bad (resource hogging, a little slow).
Thank you for this, I'll definitely need to dig more on it.
My residential internet has provisions for home servers, it's a case by case so I just have to get on the phone and explain what kind of uses. Video hosting or being a torrent node is a no no but a simple contact page and portfolio of work is negligible they shouldn't have a problem. Friends who use the same ISP have home servers for when they need to get files from office or vice versa and host their own sites.
"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."
conservativetreehouse.win What is hard about this, people? 😎
EDIT: A TLD change does not solve their problem (which is that they are losing hosting). I hope that our devs can in some way help conservative voices that get the deplatformed, maybe with hosting advice or something...
DIGITAL WARRIORS, REMEMBER YOUR OATHS! IT’S TIME TO ASSEMBLE!
Here’s what we need to keep CTH up and running. What part can you play?
SITREP:
CTH is a critical platform for MAGA conservatives. They are smart but no /u/doggo type of tech wizards. They have used Wordpress.com for content and probably hosting, so that the writers can upload the ‘easy way’. Stallman was right. Wordpress is pulling the rug out from under them after fucking them over in subtle ways all year to drain their tech budget.
CTH has three immediate tactical objectives:
Safeguard a repository of a decade’s worth of postings, mostly text and some photos
Keep the site online as it exists now
Migrate the site and content to a new, technically superior backend that maintains ease up uploads for the CTH writing staff.
PLAN OF ACTION:
SAFEGUARD: Archive, Scrape, and otherwise process the site content into locally-held drives in JSON format. Text formatting (bullets, bolding, etc) preferred (?) but not critical. Datekeeping of posts critical. Keywords would be nice but could be handled downstream.
REMAIN ONLINE: Set up hosting and migrate to a functional PHP server based self-hosted Wordpress. WORDPRESS DEVELOPERS NEEDED
Wordpress.org is FOSS solution for this step.
MIGRATE: With the immediate self-hosting in place, we will develop a new and better website for CTH, possibly based on Node.js, or making improvements to the self-hosted Wordpress (Personally I think Wordpress anything is useless overhead compared to what ‘pedes can do)
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
FINANCE - If you have the pockets, there are few better causes right now. Funding can be applied to the specialty things volunteers can’t do.
HOSTING - If you have a robust hosting solution, please provide.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Need someone to manage the people aspects and interface with the CTH team
TECHNICAL MANAGER - Answer the big questions, create the shared programming interface, oversee the packages, get the server setup right.
ARCHIVE TEAM LEAD - Archive, scrape, store, process using batch scripts
WORDPRESS TEAM LEAD - Oversee the self-hosting migration
MIGRATE TEAM LEAD - Research and get the new site going, with a focus on CMS ease-of-use, Security, and high-latency robustness. JavaScript expert needed.
VOLUNTEERS WITH ‘SPECIAL SKILLS - What else can you do?
Thanks, I just donated. It was only $50 as I already made a huge contribution to Project Veritas. If all of us make even little donations it will add up. Also with all of us who want to donate to .win and there is no way to do it, we can donate to the Treehouse
Boomers gon’ boomer. That’s why they need help. Set ‘em up a bitcoin drop or whatever, if you know the way — don’t just bitch about it, BE the solution
It would destroy their SEO. All they have to do is convert from wordpress.com to wordpress.org which would give them complete control over their website. You do not need to use wordpress.com's services to use Wordpress.
This is true. I had a pro Trump website back in 2016 and I was getting natural organic traffic from various search terms via Google. It was a few months after the election when all of that stopped, like just dropped off completely one day. Google was putting all conservative sites at the back of the search engine bus.
None of those is what they are looking for. Wordpress is two things: a blog engine and a platform that hosts blogs using that engine.
The page you linked to has options to substitute Wordpress in either of those roles, but there are problems. The engines would still require a platform and the platforms listed there are all owned by Google.
If there is a based platform, choosing which engine to run is usually easy.
A little more complicated then that. Wordpress isn't just a hosting company, they provide the backbone template for the website.
They would need to completely re-make their website, either quickly with another similar provider that could then dump them, or build from scratch which is very expensive
I'm of the opinion legislators are content to let EOs happen because they don't have to go on record with a vote AND they can decide to run for or against an issue as is convenient.
The government is fill of corruption, we have no legitimate political party fighting for America and our values. The Republicans are happy being controlled opposition.
More pressingly than 230 reform is that companies that handle online transactions (Paypal, patreon, GoFundMe, etc.) will strip any alternative social media sites of funding, try to rob content creators they don't like of income, deny financial support to people in need of backup for reasons they personally disapprove of, etc.
Even this is not safe from the totalitarian lords of tech. They have already caused domain registrars to cancel entire domains, essentially making the site unreachable and therefore deplatforming it from the internet.
but the problem is that the domain registrar cancels your domain. its icann that's the problem. You can still access the site just not through its recognizable address
Also, as you may or may not recall, the US relinquished control over ICANN years back and now it is clear that it was all done under Soetero's subversive supervision for this specific end result of eliminating conservative assemby of digital content and people everywhere.
We've got a coup, civil war and a revolution all rolled into one now.
I'm not very technologically gifted, so does that mean we could still reach it via the site's ip address? Can we find out what the ip address is and spread that around so we can continue to backup content even after they are deplatformed?
They are having a problem with wordpress but may have more problems later as they step up their campaign against conservative sites.
Losing wordpress simply makes it harder for them to publish their content. The content already published on wordpress will need to be adapted and republished using different content management software. Years of comments and user accounts will probably be lost.
However, switching away from wordpress does not affect the site's address which will remain accessible as long as icann does not cancel their domain registration or assign it to someone else for breaching some vague TOS. It is still possible to access the server by other means, such as an ip address, but the lack of an easily remembered address basically kills traffic.
Imagine if someone deplatformed ebay or amazon by taking away their domain. Sure the sites could be accessed by bookmarking an ip address but very few would do that, and that is the plan all along.
They have gone so far as to pursue certain sites as they tried registering new domains, getting them deplatformed from there and essentially killing their internet presence
On top of that the assholes will block all credit card transactions. This is what happened to gab, making it impossible to sell membership or advertising, even though for now they retain their domain.
Just needs more apolitical content to be a true competitor, right now it's all political.
And all these people saying it has problems...hello? Its a new platform, they dont have everything perfect yet. Was Twitter a perfectly optimized platform when it started? Give it time.
I’ve heard
Lots
Of weird stuff about that platform coming out the last few days. Especially regarding ownership? No one will be straight on who owns it. It’s weird
This is what early stage communism looks like. It will be accerated rapidly in the coming years. The left are going to lock down conservative or even non leftist speech everywhere they can find it.
This is what's so weird to me. what, like 10k would build a balls to walls handle all normal traffic server? That's tiny for a business trying to secure their future.
All these conservatives bitching about getting de-platformed, but nobody has made a freespeech style wordpress.
They can’t revoke the license (last time I looked). They can change their license and block them from future upgrades. Running it yourself removes them from any perceived liability. Yes, it means you have to worry about keeping it running but you at least didn’t have to build it.
WordPress is an open source CMS platform written in PHP. The code is all public. Anyone can use it. Setting up your own WordPress server from scratch with no technical know-how, however, would be a nightmare
But the thing is that you're responsible for the complete and total security of it at that point. Self-run WP sites - especially the ones that run a lot of 3rd party modules - get smoked all the time, WP is notoriously shitty in its security. It's almost a full-time job keeping it safe and secure.
Granted, this is probably the best immediate option forward while something more long-term is determined, unless CTH were to get someone strong in the InfoSec field, that is.
agreed: they could just run WP on their own server. you've really got to know what you're doing to keep WP secure. source: me. I ran a top 500 (alexa ranking) site for 4 years that ran wotdpress. it's a piece of shit.
I've worked on message boards, CMSs and other PHP applications since I was in the 6th grade (back when YaBB was still a thing and IPB was still free, so, back in 2004-2005ish?). I can confirm that WP is, hands down, the biggest POS FOSS on the market that I've ever used for running a website.
I mean if that's what it takes, that's what we should do.
They've started minibanks to make purchasing weed easier, and you're telling me we can't do it for freedom?
More do nothing conservatism. This is why we lost up until Trump.
You fuckers never ask yourself, "How do I do this?"
You always start with "This isn't even possible. I haven't thought about it at all. I just know I can't do it. And because I can't, there's not a single other person in this 6 billion people world that can do anything I can't. It's hopeless."
Some low energy, low self-esteem, defeatist bitches in here.
Nothing more than a quick search brings up since they don't have them in my state yet, but CA was doing it. It's mainly credit unions, but it should be way easier to set one up for conservatives as opposed to setting one up for drugs.
https://www.mmjfinsol.com/ is an example, but the reviews are less than stellar. It just shows that an extra type of money management system is possible. I would trust conservatives to manage their money more than opportunistic young start ups anyways.
It's what white South Africans ended up having to do after the ANC took over. And looking at how many banks are going all in on "diversity" bullshit, I'd say you're absolutely right, we do need our own banking.
I'm trying to imagine a bunch of guys at ebay sitting around saying "I don't know, it's it okay to build our own money system?" No one gave anyone permission to build PayPal, they just built it. Stop waiting for someone else to solve problems. Be high energy and go solve them.
The upvote/downvote ratio is probably a good indicator of the ratio of "internet users" to "people who actually know how to run services on the internet".
Guys you don't need to use wordpress.com to utilize Wordpress for your CMS. Essentially all they are is a hosting provider for your WP site. They are 100% not needed.
It honestly surprised me that CTH was hosted on Wordpress.com servers. I never use them as they are always overpriced compared other company's hosting plans.
I imagine it was probably one of those scenarios where they just took the easy/straightforward route in the beginning to get it running and left it that way for a decade while working on content. Never really reconsidered their infrastructure.
Most people don't think about redundancy and the benefits of a private server until shit hits the fan.
Just wait until you see what they’ll do to you if Trump is removed. He was the only one standing between America and uncontested election fraud. The GOP will never win another election if Biden wins, the fraud will be unbreakable. Biden will pack the courts with his cronies so that the jury box option is eliminated. The only way out from a Biden victory is with the last resort solution.
They’ll also make an example out of Trump. He, His family and anyone who ever sold him a case of Diet Coke will be arrested and charged with falsified charges, maybe even executed if they feel like pushing it. It’s the final battle, right here, right now.
This would be pure insanity not even 5 years ago. The left has moved so fucking far into authoritarianism and they don't even see it. True evil is taking root all around us.
They' not blind to it, in any way. They revel in it. "Hah hah, those nazis got deplatformed!"
Our country has been utterly polarized, thanks to people like Hillary Clinton, Barrak Obama, and the MSM. They have convinced the left that we are literally the enemy, who deserve no rights. Too many of them think we should be dead.
Even if Trump secures his second term, we still have to deal with the fact that half the country thinks we don't deserve civil rights. And probably never will at this point. They're too programmed.
Honestly, I know you mean well, but people like you who are completely blind to what is going on are a large part of why they are getting away with it. They think you are dumb, and you are kinda proving it here.
Oh they definitely see it, but they think they're "on the right side of history". My leftist ex-boyfriend literally told me that while he acknowledges people have the right to free speech, he didn't think they should.
Scared the absolute hell out of me to hear that since he's not even that far left. Imagine how bad the extreme leftists are!
"Free speech ackchyually hurts my fee fees. These nazibigotracistproudboyz should be banned from any ackchual discussion because they are wrong and I iz smart and on right side of history!"
Sadly, and to my shame, he actually ended it with me. I'd seen him waiver in his support for the Dems a couple of times when I pointed out some of their lies, so I kept hoping he'd wake up. Unfortunately, after the last red pill I dished out he freaked out and ended up doubling down after he talked to his lefty 'friends'.
I had something very similar happen to me! But my mistake was to disprove some claim about immigration he made in front on his friends, by pulling up statistics. He got very butthurt all night but I thought it was the alcohol. Two weeks later he announced that he couldn't accept how "radical" I was and that his friends had told him we should break up. It was the biggest BS excuse ever lol.
I'm sorry you've been through the same thing, but you know, I think we're both better off. Any guy who can't handle facts is not the kind of person you want to make a life with - I see that now, I just wish I'd seen it sooner.
Oh I am sure they wish they could do more than take our free speech away. They probably want to put us in gulags or straight up kill us, take our stuff and murder our families. Yet they call us nazis.
They had to. They milked the "Trust Us" approach to the point of losing the trust of their typical supporters. Now at that point you either go authoritarian or spend years trying to rebuild trust. Which do you think politicians would chose?
Our Republic for which we Stand! For Generations now,
the Democracy Party trys to destroy our Republic, to make muh Democracy (aka mob rule, tyranny of the majority, evil.
the Marxists in the Dem Party, then want to turn that Democracy into a Commietopia. (even more evil); and yes Marxists like to attack at night!
Marxism (light) = Socialism
Marxism (medium) = Fascism
Marxism (heavy) = Communism
Marxism is evil in all its forms, and attracts all other evils too it. Marxism is an ideology which promotes violations of at least 3 of the 10 Commandments: Stealing, Covetting, and Killing/Murder.
“Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will."
— Adolf Hitler
“The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.”
—Adolf Hitler
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
—Hitler, May 1, 1927; quoted in Toland 1976, p. 306.
On “the money pigs of capitalist democracy”: “Money has made slaves of us. “Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.”
—Joseph Goebbels,
“The worker in a capitalist state—and that is his deepest misfortune—is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker. He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces.”
—Joseph Goebbels
It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If Europe were to become once more the Europe of bankers, of fat corrupt bourgeoisies, we should prefer Communism to win and destroy everything. We would rather have it all blow up than see this rottenness resplendent. Europe fights in Russia because it [i.e., Fascist Europe] is Socialist. …what interests us most in the war is the revolution to follow. The war cannot end without the triumph of Socialist revolution.”
—Leon Degrelle,leading National Socialist figure, speaking on behalf of the Nazi SS in occupied Paris, 1943
We will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. … We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.
—Adolf Hitler
As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.
—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
"We do not, however, accept a bill of rights which tends to make the individual superior to the State and to empower him to act in opposition to society.”
—Alfredo Rocco, 1925
Have you actually ever listened to a Hitler speech? The Nazi party was around for over 20 years. It had over 5 million members. Every single member was a socialist who was completely against capitalism. None of them have ever said anything different. They were even giving speeches in occupied France telling people they were there to destroy capitalism.
What do you think it was all just a giant conspiracy where all of those 5 million members were all just pretending to be socialists but none of them ever spoke a word about their clever plot to anyone, not even each other?
The problem is you are a dumbass socialist who doesn't understand what socialism actually is. Every different socialist in history hated every other socialist. Leninists hated stalinists. Stalinists hated trotskyites. Maoists hated Soviets. Anarcho Communists hated the Soviets too. National Socialists hated Jewish Soviets...etc...etc They all hated each other. The fact that your group hated every other group doesn't make you special, in fact it is proof that you guys are leftists.
What all these socialists had in common, and why they are hated, is because they all hated freedom, loved big government, and hated capitalism (and national socialists are just the same)
Capitalists do not give a flying fuck about your stupid and imaginary ideological differences, only retard socialists like you do.
In the eyes of normal people, there is freedom and capitalism, and then there is human garbage socialists. It doesn't matter how many feathers you stick up your ass, you will always be a socialist.
In fact if you trace the leaders of marxist governments during the 20th century, so many of them even travelled directly or indirecty to the same cafe's in Paris, Berlin, etc.
How those marxist leaders impliment it in their countries, depends on their cultures and on the businesses/leaders in that country. So for instance, Like Commie Gov of CA has marxist Chi-Comm Valley on his team, he doesn't need to take them over in policy; just as Adolf didn't need to take over some of his industry directly or the German People wouldn't go for "total war" economy (see the famous speech after the loss of the Army in Stalingrad, pleading with the German people to go to a total war economy).
Fascism was the flavor which Benito Mussolini, put in and others also adopted; was what they needed for their taking over their countries.
Arguing about the differences between Mao and Stalin or Lenin or Maduro or Pol Pot or the long list of marxist movement/party leaders: Iran, India, Turkey, Egypt, Denmark, Vietnam, Cuba, and all the rest of Communism/Fascism/Socialism are arguements about to the degrees of the evil philosphy of Marxism/Engels (1848):
[GEOPOLITICAL Redpill, you can't unsee once you see it.] The goal (by the Dems/globalists/marxists/interventionists) as an example, who got the US into Vietnam, was to deplete the US, and our resources, grind up American Patriots & local (Vietnamese) Patriots & monarchy; thus the marxists here in the US and in Vietnam could rise with less competition to power.
Same thing in other countries too, like China in the '40s; WW1, WW2, Post 9/11 etc. All over the map for 120 years now (including Russia 1917, etc.). Most of the entire 20th Century warfare and conlfict, and still today in 2020, is this.
Marxists start crap, escalation, countries fighting over some other pretense with the help of Marxists in power in those countries controlling policy/news/etc. And when a country or monarchy is weakened from war, the other marxists strike either overtly, or Long March through the Institutions; and the map grows in marxism both internationally and WITHIN countries.
I am not confusing it, the information is all there if you really want to read/watch it. Seriously you can spend the time listening to Benito youself if you like, read his and all the other leaders of Socialism, Fascism, Communism's books.
"Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and a journalist at the Avanti! newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI),[6] but was expelled from the PSI for advocating military intervention in World War I, in opposition to the party's stance on neutrality. In 1914, Mussolini founded a new journal, Il Popolo d'Italia, and served in the Royal Italian Army during the war until he was wounded and discharged in 1917. Mussolini denounced the PSI, his views now centering on Italian nationalism instead of socialism, and later founded the fascist movement which came to oppose egalitarianism[7] and class conflict, instead advocating "revolutionary nationalism" transcending class lines.[8] ...
Mussolini thought of himself as an intellectual and was considered to be well-read. He read avidly; his favorites in European philosophy included Sorel, the Italian Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, French Socialist Gustave Hervé, Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, and German philosophers Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, the founders of Marxism.[33][34] Mussolini had taught himself French and German and translated excerpts from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Kant.
Mussolini was so familiar with Marxist literature that in his own writings he would not only quote from well-known Marxist works but also from the relatively obscure works.[39] During this period Mussolini considered himself a Marxist and he described Marx as "the greatest of all theorists of socialism."[40]
Redpill: BTW most all leaders of Marxism (who achieve(d) power) don't actually believe it it, they just use whichever version to achieve power; and purge out their fellow "true believers" or other rivals/leaders; which is why things rapidly devolve (under more marxism) into dictatorship(or as you say authoritarianism).
The narrative that "fascism" is "rightwing or not like Socialism or Communism" is pure propaganda provided by boatloads of propaganda during and since WW2; provided by the marxists themselves, as masterful misdirection, just like how they keep repeating and asking Trump or others to "disavow white surpemacy" when it's the Dems who are the KKK and all other flavors of La Raza raycysts and class warfarists.
Sorry I'm not conflating either. When you understand how these flavors of marxism all think the power of government exists, and where that power comes from; How economic production "works", etc. they stem from the same work Marx/Engels.
Not saying there aren't differences between the evil flavors of ice cream, but it's still all ice cream from the same spoiled milk of Marx/Engels.
People like yourself, that seem to want to say one flavor like chocolate is nothing like vanilla or strawberry; fail to see how and why the various flavors came about to be in the first place.
Just as Christians broadly are people whom believe in Christ, and the teachings of Christ. There are lots of flavors in Christianity. But it's undeniable to say, they didn't stem from the same person/people/books.
Marxism in its various forms are:
Socialism (light marxism)
Fascism (medium marxism)
Communism (heavy marxism)
And these forms are based on how much marxism there is, be it just a little or medium or a lot.
WRONG on all levels. Fascism and Nazism and Communism were all based on Marxism. The Communists had a globalist view, the Fascists had a nationalist view. Other than that, they had most of the same policies. And they based all of it on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Those two guys were considered "great philosophers" in Germany during the time Hitler and his fellow travelers began forming a new party.
The German Nazis didn't hate the Communists because they were opposites. They hated them because they were competition for the same thing. The populace was already swinging hard towards the political Left due to the problems created after WWI, and Nazism and Communism had to compete in Germany for power on the Left.
The Right wing in Germany at the time which were the monarchists and conservatives posed zero threat to the Nazis, because the populace already blamed the Right for the war and giving into the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. They represented the failure of the Kaiser in most German's minds.
So the political battle for power was between Nazis and Communists on the LEFT. The Nazis won and the populace, who were already primed for a Marxist style government, quickly fell in line behind the NSDAP banner. During all of this, few thought ill of Marx or his ramblings and most in the world saw both the Nazis and the Italian Fascists as part of a new wave of Marxism.
It wasn't until the war and the uncovered atrocities that the Nazis became a universal euphemism for evil. And once that happened, the political Left in every country made a concerted effort to claim the Nazis were "far right". And now people like you believe that lie.
If you actually look at their policies, they are distinctly in line with Marxism.
HOLD THE LINE. They wouldn't be deplatforming where our news comes from if the information that would be shared there wasn't about to drop. I love CTH, and I have no doubt that they will get picked up by another webholder. But the timing of this shows us exactly what we need to see. CTH is a platform that will share the fraud, and they're trying to get in front of it.
They wouldn't be deplatforming where our news comes from if the information that would be shared there wasn't about to drop
lmao what a retarded thought. They've been deplatformng for years with or without news. They do it because they hate us, and because they can, and they know we will never do anything visceral in return.
It isn't because something is about to drop, it is because they are literally in the middle of launching a coup (in front of everyone's eyes), and they don't want the people resisting, so they are cutting off our lines of communication.
It was a tactical weakness using mainstream hosts and services.
There should be hundreds of patriot run software companies fighting this by now, but far to many expect "the market" to solve - you are the market, let's start solving this.
Wish there was a place to organize the alt-tech effort.
The site started 10 years ago. Are you expecting people to foresee them going full gestapo and tyrannical? All these companies are the product of a free market and now that their owners and investors have goteen rich they see themselves as gods. Fuck these CCP tech tyrants.
"Google is such a cool company, 'don't be evil' is right in their mission statement. The future will be defined by the free exchange of ideas that will bring us all together. Thank you Google!"
Yeah I've been saying this for a while too, but the sad truth is conservatives are inherently individualistic, and sadly, often selfish. While the left is working together taking over everything, any right winger involved in media who was somewhat successful was just saying "I got mine" and fighting off other conservatives for viewership.
Yes, many are. But for the handful of folks who want to make their own things, we need to be the model for others to follow.
I'm thinking about just setting up some of conservative technology forum and resource center myself. I just would want to know that other people would be interested first.
what we need is a search engine. The competitors to google have pathetic algorithms. I can't use duck duck go because I can never find the results I need.
Conservatives are very bad at connecting the brains with money. The money is usually intimidated by academic like types, or easily conned by idiots who don't know what they are doing. It isn't hard to set up good and cheap search technology, but it isn't getting done.
It'd be difficult, but I'd agree that that is pretty key. The challenge is that trying to make good search by with a crawlers indexing the internet wouldn't be better than what already exists.
One option is to make a niche search service that gets the results google suppresses but nothing else. Focus on just searching the suppressed stuff.
Another option is to get those sorts of suppressed results and piggy back the search results from goolge and other providers and then hydrate the censored contents back in.
Could make it a plugin like dissenter that has scored content for suppressed results and inserts them back into google's results (assuming that's legal).
The challenge is that trying to make good search by with a crawlers indexing the internet wouldn't be better than what already exists.
this isn't quite right. Crawlers are a trivial, 20 year old technology. Its connecting what you type with what you want. Google excels at that.
All that conservatives need is a search engine that is as good as google and doesn't censor, and 50% of the country will switch to it immediately.
Another option is to get those sorts of suppressed results and piggy back the search results from google and other providers and then hydrate the censored contents back in.
Yeah that would definitely be the starting point, but it is surprising that even duck duck go and bing have a hard time copying google. When I tried to work out why, it turned out that the number of possible searches is so infinitely large that it is mostly impossible to store all combinations. Google needs to search all its data every time you type a search. They do store results for the most common searches in a large cache, but they only get a cache hit about 60% of the time.
Could make it a plugin like dissenter that has scored content for suppressed results and inserts them back into google's results
this kind of thing is a great idea. Definitely needed.
They'll still cut off your internet access, whether you have your own power or not. There needs to be legislation to protect political opinions from discrimination, and it needs to be backed with massive enforcement (I'm talking actual jail time for tech execs, not weak-ass fines).
I'd love to start a company. There is a giant market here. I don't yet have the software skills (starting a comp sci MS soon) but do have an MBA. Would love to be involved in an effort to create something.
If you don't know how to program, I'd strongly suggest learning it. The best business and executive folks I've worked with (even folks like lawyers) know how to make their own programs and automation.
As a tech lead, the business manager I work is also a programmer - and it makes my job so much easier because he can actually explain what he wants new features to do and understand the questions I ask.
I do know how to program, but I have not ever done it professionally (I am an electrical engineer). I need to up my skills because I don't think my code would be production quality at this point.
If you want to make a business with software, you don't need to be able to make a twitter or google quality product - you just need a low quality first version that lets you test your ideas, business plan, and marketing.
The aim is to get the product to work, test the crap out of it (there are always more bugs) and find out what people want - focus on tweaking a cheap version.
Once the product works overall, you can build a better version of it with higher quality code.
As you work on it, take notes of what went wrong and catalogue the skills you need to make the the next thing work. Take lots of notes, store them in a searchable system like a private wiki.
Fail fast, cheap, and often and focus on learning. And always use source control.
There is an outstanding book that goes over this iterative mechanism, I believe it is called "Running Lean".
Everything you say is true. You need to get your business off the ground as cheaply as possible, using your early adopters to give you feedback to tweak the product and add features that add value to your product.
There is a gigantic market opportunity with conservatives, especially regarding being able to communicate ideas without censorship.
What kind of company would you start? I can't believe there are no widely popular conservative friendly alternatives to facebook and twitter. Seems like there is a potential community of tens to hundreds of millions of freedom loving people.
There's lots of $$$ being made in the blogosphere.
So much so that little guys are being pushed out. And the middle sized bloggers pay for plugins and services to help them get noticed by search engines.
If you want to run a Wordpress website don't use wordpress.com use wordpress.org this way you can pick any hosting provider you want. You will have complete control over your website when using wordpress.org.
They're probably not to technical, contact them and let them know about this option, even as a temporary solution. (why else would someone be using wordpress.com?)
People new to Wordpress have a tendency to start out with wordpress.com because of the following:
Benefits of using wordpress.com
Despite the limitations of WordPress.com, there are some benefits. These may help you realize the difference between wordpress.com vs wordpress.org, according to your needs:
Your site can be set up in minutes.
It offers free 3GB storage space.
You can focus entirely on creating your content as you do not have to worry about server hosting, updates, and file backups.
It is a perfect choice for hobby blogging, portfolio, and family WordPress sites because you can immediately build a website with their 100% free plan.
You have access to technical support.
Limitations of hosted wordpress.com
Despite the few benefits of a WordPress.com site, there are major limitations you want to seriously consider:
On the wp.com platform, wp.com hosts your site, so you do not have full control of your site.
You run the risk of losing your site if you go against the rules of WordPress.
WordPress.com is a commercial platform. To make their profit, they place ads on all websites hosted on the free plan. This means there really is nothing you can do about it unless you upgrade to a paid WordPress.com business plan.
The free plan only allows you to install a limited number of themes on your website.
You are not allowed to upload custom or premium themes and plugins. This is because the extensibility of wordpress.com is very limited.
Unless you upgrade to Premium and business plans, you cannot add custom CSS.
The only way to remove the powered by wordpress.com or blog at WordPress.com is to upgrade to a paid Business plan.
There are no provisions for eCommerce website builders and integrated payment gateways.
If your site is able to generate a lot of traffic, you will get the privilege to advertise with WordAds on request, and share the revenue with them.
Holy shit, that's scary and describes exactly what they're trying to do.
"It’s a technology that makes mobile page results load very quickly on Google, it displays the content in a more uniform fashion. But there’s a problem.
The content loads off of Google’s own server, not from the website itself.
Like Medium, where you get all these amazing advantages of content publishing—but only if you write on their service—Google AMP is progress that takes us backwards.
I’m not one to claim that original ideas always need to be perfectly preserved. Sometimes old ideas need to die out and be replaced by better ones. But this isn’t one of those.
The entire point of the Internet was to directly connect content.
The idea is to have different people create things that were connected to each other. That’s why they called it a web.
web
But now we’re seeing these new models that are looking to break the system. Create central platforms and get everyone using it. Build a search engine and display people’s content without passing the user through to it.
It’s poisonous to the underlying concept of an open internet.
If this were to become widely adopted, you’d search for something, get results, consume the content, and you’d never leave Google."
We believe in democratizing publishing and the freedoms that come with open source. Supporting this idea is a large community of people collaborating on and contributing to this project. The WordPress community is welcoming and** inclusive**.
*****UNLESS WE DISAGREE WITH YOU
FUCK WORDPRESS. AND FUCK THE FUCKING DIAZ BROTHERS.
YOU KNOW.... Silicon Valley is a real place in California, where HORDES of angry patriots could form up and protest continually. If you're busy, no problem! Show up when you're able. Leave when you want! Come in for a few hours opposite your shift, BS a bit, bring some street food and then go home for a shower. There's no need to disrupt your life if we kept the protest going continually, as is ENTIRELY justified. Consider it a replacement for televised sports.
Not a huge deal technically - they need to find a new web hosting service. But very troubling that they’re now coming for your websites. No longer just banning you from their platforms. This does not end well.
They are better off without Wordpress, though migrating is weeks of work and a lot of money to essentially be right back at zero and with lost viewership/readership.
You ever do a flat file site? I am making some (mostly) static sites for friends and personal use and I feel like this is juuuust easy enough for my casual ass to implement. Slap a free css/javascript framework on the outside, fill in content and leave it up for ads to be sent towards the site.
I built and managed a few Wordpress sites and the .org version is a god damn nightmare now with something the Javascript Cult in charge call "Gutenburg" - which has broken the whole ecosystem.
It is a shame and I am sure there is more to it. This software was an incredible tool for letting little people like me make fairly nice web sites independently and without a lot of overhead vis a vis money and maximum freedom to take my data and go to any server space I liked.
There's a plugin that keeps WP in Classic instead of the new Gutenberg. Since I do my own programming, I didn't like the idea of Gutenberg when it was announced and have avoided it.
If you do not know HTML / CSS, ETC. when using Wordpress then the best builder to use in my opinion is Elementor which is fantastic. I don't mess with Gutenburg.
Lend an ear...we are going to have to put aside "social media" platforms and go back to the original roots of the web to protect ourselves and assure we have the ability to deliver our thoughts and messaging to the world.
What I mean by that is, back in the day, before browsers supported images, movies and the like, "the web" was text only, if you wanted to say something online, you learned basic HTML, registered a domain, found a hosting company and put up your website. One didn't sign up for Blogger or Wordpress because they simply didn't exist.
While there is certainly a convenience to using their software, IF THE PRICE IS CENSORSHIP AND TYRANNY THEN CONVENIENCE IS OF NO VALUE TO US AS INDIVIDUALS OR A SOCIETY!
Anyone who uses this site, has a smart phone, can cook a meal from a recipe or put gasoline in their own car is intelligent enough to do this. Pure, old fashioned HTML isn't "programming". It's simply a series of simple "tags" that are put at the front and back of words, sentences or paragraphs.
If you can remember to put an "<h2>" at the start of your headline and "</h2>" at the end of it, you are halfway home! (for example: <h2>My headline</h2>)
Other "tags" surround your paragraphs. This can be done without special software, even with the clunkiest of computers, using a text editor. Every computer since Windows 1.0 (or a Mac) has a text editor program on it. (Windows: Notepad, Wordpad ; Mac: TextEdit, TextMate)
Will these sites be as "cool" as the fancy, select a theme to suit your mood Wordpress or Blogger sites? Probably not unless you dig a little deeper into building web pages, which again is nice but wholly unnecessary to accomplish the goal of keeping your site out of the hands of the censors.
This is only scratching the surface. Look into it yourself or reply to this post to ask questions. Mishima is here for America!
I made my own web pages (on places like Geocities) using that old-fashioned hand-coded HTML more than 20 years ago. <hr> horizontal lines separating sections!
It worked just fine; we don't need all the bells and whistles of today's blogs to get our content out.
At this point, it's safe to assume that any service that is not explicitly and proudly MAGA will "deplatform" us. I've been saying for a long time that reliance on woke platforms for communications is a huge vulnerability. They will all legally and effortlessly turn us off. This site is a perfect example of how to address that problem.
We'll start seing more and more of this as conservatives and republicans wash their hands of Trump and indicate they are not willing to put out a fight.
If only there were more than one web hosting company or perhaps the ability to run one's own server(s)! Dammit, but there's NOT! Their current host is THE ONLY WAY to have an Internet presence! They're DOOMED!
Someday we'll be an apartheid state based on ideology where conservatives have things like Parler, Rumble, and small community banks/credit unions and the only ones left on Twitter will be radical leftists in an echo chamber, who ironically will be left with the big banks they claim to despise.
I have a suggestion: how about we all deplatform/
demonetize/delegitimize the entire MSM propaganda apparatus in a thunderous crescendo?
[A copy of a post I made earlier]
The Way to Crush Them All in the MSM in One Fell Swoop--and Stop Funding the Enemy Propaganda Machine within (HINT: CUT THEIR FUCKING BALLS RIGHT OFF!!)
Hello all from a noob to this fantastic oasis! I stumbled on this site after the Great Steal began and have been amazed that I never knew it existed. I see why Judge Jeanine gave you a shout out. :)
Please stick with me, as I have a very serious proposition that I think you all may be able to help with to affect a very real and very serious change on the effect of the MSM propaganda machine, and very quickly. If I were tech savvy, I'd insert an animation of a nutsack being lopped off, but I am not. If I had a huge platform with which to spread the idea, I'd do it there, but I do not. BUT, if you've got the judge's attention you do. So, please, spread this idea (or a better version of it).
Basic idea up front: whether we hate the MSM (and the propaganda they spread) or not they get paid every month by every cable or satellite tv subscriber. Oddly enough, based upon demographics, the more likely you are to be a MAGA maniac, the more likely you are to be a cable or satellite subscriber. We are funding our enemy's propaganda machinery. That is insane! The great news about that is that WE CONTROL THAT CONTINUING OR CEASING IMMEDIATELY!
The basic stats are there about 90 million cable subscribers and about 25 million satellite subscribers. Whether you ever watch the MSM channels or not, the MSM outlets get a piece of that, some of them over $1 a month. So, while we rage at them they laugh and pocket about $100 million a month. Let that sink in. $100 million a month. That's a lot of money and power to spread their filth.
I don't know what forces are behind what's going on to try and rip our country apart and I don't know what actually motivates the executives and personalities at the MSM outlets as I am not clairvoyant, but I have a pretty good idea that for most of them it is the age old desire for power and money.
We can rip that away from them. We can effectively slice that ballsack of money right off each outlet and cripple their machine because it grinds to a halt without the money we feed it. STOP FINANCING THE ENEMIES OF OUR COUNTRY AND BY RESULT US AS INDIVIDUALS AND OUR CHERISHED WAY OF LIFE!!
If you can help spread the idea to that vast sea of patriotic Americans out there that there is a real impact if we all en masse cancel our cable or satellite subscriptions NOW we will watch the propaganda machine begin to disintegrate before our very eyes.
GOAL: LESS THAN 69 MILLION CABLE AND SATELLITE SUBSRIBERS BY NEXT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH!
I am reaching out to the group of Americans that is: willing to endure hours-long lines and any weather to attend a GEOTUS rally, willing to spend hours seeking information about topics pertinent to the Great Steal, willing to take to the streets in their cities in (actual and absolutely) peaceful protest (while risking life and limb knowing that ANTIFA and/or BLM thugs may show up and do them harm), willing to sacrifice what is necessary to be a part of the process of rescuing the integrity of our election system, and willing to do all the things that may be asked of them to save our republic from the evils of those who wish to fundamentally change (read: destroy) America. For all that you are willing to do that involves real effort and real sacrifice, this is easy, but don't underestimate how impactful.
None of us need anything that is being pumped in through that cable box or satellite dish to lead free, healthy, informed, contented lives. But, we do need to maintain the way of life that the extreme, violent, Marxist, globalist left and its willing accomplices in the MSM are trying to tear asunder. We can't all be Rudy, Sidney or L Lin fighting the legal battles. We can't all drive across the country to be a part of a historic protest in DC. We can't all do a lot of things. But, we can all do this.
LESS THAN 69 MILLION CABLE AND SATELLITE SUBSCRIBERS BY NEXT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH
Please, treat this with the same (or greater) seriousness that you would've with spreading logic to on the fence acquaintances or family before the election, or with trying to make sure that your like-minded acquaintances or family members voted. This is even more important. Try and get at least 3 people that you know that have cable or satellite to commit to you personally that they will cancel their subscription by next Friday. Giving up cable or satellite is nothing like giving up the way of life that we used to enjoy.
They are deplatforming a lot of companies. Also a lot of reporters kicked off twitter. Also a lot of users are being kicked off everywhere that isn't being seen.
They are possibly the single biggest platform on the web. An insane number of websites use Wordpress. It's not just blogging. It's businesses, stores, ecommerce, tons of stuff. If it's going the way of Twitter, and it looks like it is, it's going to hurt. But we must do what we must. If businesses or others want to stay they will have to
"behave" now right? Wrong.
Which raises a good question: Wordpress is ubiquitous but it’s not the only platform is it? If Wordpress has gone to the dark side then Blogger which is owned by Google is certainly not even an option. It might be a good thing to have a resource sticky that keeps a list of “kosher” (for
Now anyway) platforms.
I assume they are using wordpress.com hosting? This means they are being kicked off wordpress.com's hosting. They still can download the wordpress software (it's open source), and host an exact copy of their current site somewhere else.
Since they own their domain, it's less than a day of work to move.
Buy hosting somewhere else.
Use wordpress's "export data" feature to get everything from their old site.
Set up wordpress on the new hosting vendor, along with whatever plugins and css they were using.
Import the data.
Set up hosts on your local PC, pointing theconservativetreehouse.com to your new IP. Verify everything works.
Yeah really it's not a big deal technically. But a hosting company shouldn't refuse service based on political ideology. (of course legally they have the right)
Now to the legal part... This would make their business a publisher not a platform. They now have to be very careful with thier other clients...
Maybe maga.win will host them
THIS!
And CTH are among the best of us..... So let that sink in......
HOLY FUCK. THIS IS COMMUNISM.
WE FIGHT THIS.
CTH IS BASED IN SOLID SOURCES AND UNDISPUTED FACTS. THERE IS NO LEGAL BASIS FOR DEPLATFORMING.
THIS IS COMMUNISM. YOU GET DISAPPEARED FOR DISAGREEING WITH A POLITICAL FACTION.
Wow. I JUST postd about this last week. Specifically the treehouse!
I said they rely on WordPress too much, and WordPress could take them down, and WordPress probably would!
I didn't know CTH uses WordPress as their actual HOST! But ANY site using WordPress as their platform/Content Management System has very deep
connections todependencies on WordPress. A LOT of the functionality relies on WordPress, even if your site is actually hosted somewhere else.And they need to get their domain registered somewhere else, preferably overseas.
I would never use WordPress. I've used them on several sites in the past, for ease of setup, but that was for some black hat SEO type stuff. I don't use WP anymore.
I hope the mods and devs here at TDW have multiple backup plans, for hosting and for domain registration. Isn't there something that the government could do to seize the domain name if they wanted to? This is serious
This is why blockchain is so important. We have to decentralize the internet again. The corruption will just keep spreading and once-noble organizations like WordPress will be infiltrated and consumed.
Blockchain is not the magic solution. Blockchain is like socialism, all it takes is one greedy asshole to corrupt the whole system. Neither socialism nor blockchain will work at scale. What's to stop Bill Gates and George Soros from buying enough datacenters to control 80+% of the ledgers?
Torrents are a much better model for decentralization, perhaps blockchain can help with unofficial trust management of seeds, but should not be relied upon entirely.
You got a link to a good primer on blockchain?
A wise man once said: "Do not put all eggs in one basket."
CTH Editors: do not freak out. WordPress website may have banned them. But there are many other companies who also offer WordPress Hosting. You can export all existing articles (with comments) and migrate to another web host. Heck, you can buy your own webserver, install WordPress and host it yourself!
Hopefully CTH has already exported the content. WordPress could easily just delete them at any moment. These guys suck.
This is what I don't understand. Is the WordPress website and hosting service kicking them off their hosting? I work with WordPress a lot and so I assumed that WordPress was using this moment to go woke and start pulling its actual software use from site builders who built on a WP platform regardless of hosting. Which would be insane and incredible. I don't remember terms of service though for the software. So if it's just hosting, then CT just has to roll up their sleeves, get to work, and then maybe file a lawsuit after.
First they should get a protonmail account to back up all their content (in addition to physical drives they hold themselves). I don't think protonmail does hosting, but they will not look at your files or erase what is there.
Protonmail rocks!
We need an online bill of Rights that punishes these platforms for acting as publishers with huge fines that will make their eyes roll back.
Just define "publisher" and "platform" clearly in 220 and they will not legally qualify. Let the lawsuits put them out of business.
Let me guess, the San Francisco Bay area
This guy CTH's!
Yup, it's finally come to your home. The fight has come to your doorstep. Even if you just have an online business, big tech will come after you for political opinions.
It's actually capitalism, WP is a private company and has the right to run its business however it wants
You're actually a gigantic faggot. Go back to /r/politics until you quit shaving your armpits.
You sound like one of those neocons in DC who excuses everything Big Tech does, including shutting down free speech if it doesn't go along with their groupthink.
CTH doesn't have one ounce of toxicity or even "fringe" content.
This is straight out of the CCP playbook. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
It doesn't meet the CCP standards.
Sidney Powell posts comments on The Conservative Treehouse. Let that sink in . . .
In addition to Sidney Powell, Lou Dobbs and Sarah Palin comment at the Treehouse from time to time.
The WordPress T&C: If the CCP doesn't like it, we don't like it.
Does anyone know if Wix is cucked?
At this point, I think it's safe to assume they're all cucked.
100% is . Our website got taken down by them because we supported MAGA. After BLM and fenty floyd, a lot of shit was flung at us and leftist assholes reported our site in numbers because we dared to post about our support for law enforcement on social media pages.
We learnt a good lesson - to have our own hosting and not depend on any fucking service provider.
Wix is. Don't rely on it.
Well damn, indeed.
https://www.wix.com/blacklivesmatter
Remember, this is open support for a terrorist organization. It is just a matter of time.
Do they still link to actblue.com when you donate?
I have my business site on Wix, what is an alternative that is not cucked?
If you have a business, then you likely have a business internet connection. If you know how to do it, you could get a Raspberry Pi (or similar), use Cloudflare's free plan, and self-host your website.
But only do this if you have a business internet connection. Residential internet connections typically have a "no servers" clause in their ToS.
If you want someone else to host it, then Epik perhaps?
I self host my family business's website using Wordpress (even though I use Wordpress, they can't deplatform me because I am self hosting) with Elementor. I am considering a switch to something like Django CMS, though, because PHP (the programming language that Wordpress is written in) is kinda bad (resource hogging, a little slow).
Doesn't work at business scales.
Neither at the scale of td.win or CTH.
This setup would work in a small scale.
Thank you for this, I'll definitely need to dig more on it. My residential internet has provisions for home servers, it's a case by case so I just have to get on the phone and explain what kind of uses. Video hosting or being a torrent node is a no no but a simple contact page and portfolio of work is negligible they shouldn't have a problem. Friends who use the same ISP have home servers for when they need to get files from office or vice versa and host their own sites.
IDK. I used wix only for the front end that led to my stuff on cloud.
Never hosted since I don't really create content.
Those you mentioned are big name hosts, unfortunately.
"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 first sentence is the violation, Duh! cant have honest open discusions in a free society
Yeah, we need to de-legitimize Wordpress. There needs to be a concerted effort to make them bankrupt and irrelevant.
conservativetreehouse.win What is hard about this, people? 😎
EDIT: A TLD change does not solve their problem (which is that they are losing hosting). I hope that our devs can in some way help conservative voices that get the deplatformed, maybe with hosting advice or something...
DIGITAL WARRIORS, REMEMBER YOUR OATHS! IT’S TIME TO ASSEMBLE!
Here’s what we need to keep CTH up and running. What part can you play?
SITREP:
CTH is a critical platform for MAGA conservatives. They are smart but no /u/doggo type of tech wizards. They have used Wordpress.com for content and probably hosting, so that the writers can upload the ‘easy way’. Stallman was right. Wordpress is pulling the rug out from under them after fucking them over in subtle ways all year to drain their tech budget.
CTH has three immediate tactical objectives:
PLAN OF ACTION:
SAFEGUARD: Archive, Scrape, and otherwise process the site content into locally-held drives in JSON format. Text formatting (bullets, bolding, etc) preferred (?) but not critical. Datekeeping of posts critical. Keywords would be nice but could be handled downstream.
REMAIN ONLINE: Set up hosting and migrate to a functional PHP server based self-hosted Wordpress. WORDPRESS DEVELOPERS NEEDED
Wordpress.org is FOSS solution for this step.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
FINANCE - If you have the pockets, there are few better causes right now. Funding can be applied to the specialty things volunteers can’t do.
HOSTING - If you have a robust hosting solution, please provide.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Need someone to manage the people aspects and interface with the CTH team
TECHNICAL MANAGER - Answer the big questions, create the shared programming interface, oversee the packages, get the server setup right.
ARCHIVE TEAM LEAD - Archive, scrape, store, process using batch scripts
WORDPRESS TEAM LEAD - Oversee the self-hosting migration
MIGRATE TEAM LEAD - Research and get the new site going, with a focus on CMS ease-of-use, Security, and high-latency robustness. JavaScript expert needed.
VOLUNTEERS WITH ‘SPECIAL SKILLS - What else can you do?
ACTION
Let’s start here. Post with the role you can do.
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=RZ4BWXR87UTLW
You can Independently use the donate button at https://theconservativetreehouse.com
(Right side of screen under the candle where it says “Support The Treehouse”)
/I am not affiliated with CTH
Thanks, I just donated. It was only $50 as I already made a huge contribution to Project Veritas. If all of us make even little donations it will add up. Also with all of us who want to donate to .win and there is no way to do it, we can donate to the Treehouse
I know you don’t care about virtue points, but good on ya, ‘pede!
Boomers gon’ boomer. That’s why they need help. Set ‘em up a bitcoin drop or whatever, if you know the way — don’t just bitch about it, BE the solution
You should copy/paste this into a new post and update your comment here to crosslink to it.
It would destroy their SEO. All they have to do is convert from wordpress.com to wordpress.org which would give them complete control over their website. You do not need to use wordpress.com's services to use Wordpress.
They are already SEO screwed. The SEO is word of mouth now, for all non-neoliberal content.
This is true. I had a pro Trump website back in 2016 and I was getting natural organic traffic from various search terms via Google. It was a few months after the election when all of that stopped, like just dropped off completely one day. Google was putting all conservative sites at the back of the search engine bus.
This is the correct answer.
Great correction/Learning opportunity for me, RFM - Appreciated👌
not losing the domain - just the hosting.
Thanks - good correction
they could take a look at pocketnet.app or similar concepts
Or some of these?
https://alternativeto.net/software/wordpress/
None of those is what they are looking for. Wordpress is two things: a blog engine and a platform that hosts blogs using that engine.
The page you linked to has options to substitute Wordpress in either of those roles, but there are problems. The engines would still require a platform and the platforms listed there are all owned by Google.
If there is a based platform, choosing which engine to run is usually easy.
A little more complicated then that. Wordpress isn't just a hosting company, they provide the backbone template for the website.
They would need to completely re-make their website, either quickly with another similar provider that could then dump them, or build from scratch which is very expensive
Big tech just censored you via auto correct. Dicks.
Joe?
It's not as simple as Trump declaring anything. An executive order still has to be enforced and it can easily be undone.
There needs to be legislation and not just for online. No discrimination in banking, housing, jobs, etc for political belief.
legislation also needs to be enforced and can easily be undone, look at election laws.
I'm of the opinion legislators are content to let EOs happen because they don't have to go on record with a vote AND they can decide to run for or against an issue as is convenient.
not disagreeing with that, just adding that legislation is similar to that. Logan Act as an example.
The government is fill of corruption, we have no legitimate political party fighting for America and our values. The Republicans are happy being controlled opposition.
DACA's continued existence is explained by corrupted judges who are nakedly partisan.
DACA is not over.
And the President does not rule by decree.
We have legislation for that, we have the First Amendment.
More pressingly than 230 reform is that companies that handle online transactions (Paypal, patreon, GoFundMe, etc.) will strip any alternative social media sites of funding, try to rob content creators they don't like of income, deny financial support to people in need of backup for reasons they personally disapprove of, etc.
I'm old enough to remember commerce before e-commerce. Not nearly as fast or convenient but it worked.
Even this is not safe from the totalitarian lords of tech. They have already caused domain registrars to cancel entire domains, essentially making the site unreachable and therefore deplatforming it from the internet.
But just memorize the ip address
/s
"Dank Web"
Or just call it what it is... "Tor Network" or "Onion Network"
When people refer to the dark net or dark web, they are referring to tor. Your comments look dumb and "iamverysmart"
If it comes to that, then the tubes will find a way. We can call bookmarks whatever we want.
Use ENS then. Also consider hosting through IPFS.
Yeah, now try explaining this to your grandmother who is 900 miles away.
but the problem is that the domain registrar cancels your domain. its icann that's the problem. You can still access the site just not through its recognizable address
Exactly.
Also, as you may or may not recall, the US relinquished control over ICANN years back and now it is clear that it was all done under Soetero's subversive supervision for this specific end result of eliminating conservative assemby of digital content and people everywhere.
We've got a coup, civil war and a revolution all rolled into one now.
Thanks Obama! https://archive.is/BC64u
I'm not very technologically gifted, so does that mean we could still reach it via the site's ip address? Can we find out what the ip address is and spread that around so we can continue to backup content even after they are deplatformed?
They are having a problem with wordpress but may have more problems later as they step up their campaign against conservative sites.
Losing wordpress simply makes it harder for them to publish their content. The content already published on wordpress will need to be adapted and republished using different content management software. Years of comments and user accounts will probably be lost.
However, switching away from wordpress does not affect the site's address which will remain accessible as long as icann does not cancel their domain registration or assign it to someone else for breaching some vague TOS. It is still possible to access the server by other means, such as an ip address, but the lack of an easily remembered address basically kills traffic.
Imagine if someone deplatformed ebay or amazon by taking away their domain. Sure the sites could be accessed by bookmarking an ip address but very few would do that, and that is the plan all along.
They have gone so far as to pursue certain sites as they tried registering new domains, getting them deplatformed from there and essentially killing their internet presence
On top of that the assholes will block all credit card transactions. This is what happened to gab, making it impossible to sell membership or advertising, even though for now they retain their domain.
Google will use this time to de-index URLs as well. Need a sharp SEO on it.
https://www.coinbureau.com/education/blockchain-domains/
why is it the donald hasn't been shut down by now? I'm convinced this is a government platform
They've gone through great measures and effort to maintain control over the various aspects of this site.
something something MINECRAFT!
We aren't hosted on wordpress
It's pretty easy to run your own instance of the wordpress software fwiw.
We do have our share of tards.
Who did they register the domain with?
Or use Parler. They’ll be long threads though.
It's really not..it is growing A LOT.
Do I still have to dox myself to do something as basic as send a DM?
But the problem is it's all conservative.. it'll create an echo chamber.
There's no middle anymore. Pick a side.
I second this. My normie parents all have Parler.
Just needs more apolitical content to be a true competitor, right now it's all political.
And all these people saying it has problems...hello? Its a new platform, they dont have everything perfect yet. Was Twitter a perfectly optimized platform when it started? Give it time.
Larry the Cable guy amuses me
I’ve heard Lots Of weird stuff about that platform coming out the last few days. Especially regarding ownership? No one will be straight on who owns it. It’s weird
Thanks for the great reply. I do appreciate that.
Sundance is having a fight with Bongino right now on Twitter, something about fear of misuse of Parler data.
Both are fine options
Just get a fucking server going, its not rocket science.
To some people it is.
They should hire the IT guy who got Bidens laptop!
Clinton’s servers
Yea host there. Ain’t nobody doing shit to that.
Still though they should host on friendly servers.
Same as outsourcing medicine to China.
This is what early stage communism looks like. It will be accerated rapidly in the coming years. The left are going to lock down conservative or even non leftist speech everywhere they can find it.
True but not so important. There are more than enough people who can help.
Then hire someone who knows rocket science.
This is what's so weird to me. what, like 10k would build a balls to walls handle all normal traffic server? That's tiny for a business trying to secure their future.
All these conservatives bitching about getting de-platformed, but nobody has made a freespeech style wordpress.
Wordpress is free to use with your own install
correct.
They can’t revoke the license (last time I looked). They can change their license and block them from future upgrades. Running it yourself removes them from any perceived liability. Yes, it means you have to worry about keeping it running but you at least didn’t have to build it.
WordPress is an open source CMS platform written in PHP. The code is all public. Anyone can use it. Setting up your own WordPress server from scratch with no technical know-how, however, would be a nightmare
But the thing is that you're responsible for the complete and total security of it at that point. Self-run WP sites - especially the ones that run a lot of 3rd party modules - get smoked all the time, WP is notoriously shitty in its security. It's almost a full-time job keeping it safe and secure.
Granted, this is probably the best immediate option forward while something more long-term is determined, unless CTH were to get someone strong in the InfoSec field, that is.
There are so many security plugins and services for Wordpress.. one example would be Wordfence which is only $100 a year.
agreed: they could just run WP on their own server. you've really got to know what you're doing to keep WP secure. source: me. I ran a top 500 (alexa ranking) site for 4 years that ran wotdpress. it's a piece of shit.
I've worked on message boards, CMSs and other PHP applications since I was in the 6th grade (back when YaBB was still a thing and IPB was still free, so, back in 2004-2005ish?). I can confirm that WP is, hands down, the biggest POS FOSS on the market that I've ever used for running a website.
Maybe we should be making our own banks.
All I see is the cat with glasses looking over the top of the newspaper meme.
Eh, I made it. https://i.maga.host/bJxIdMo.png
Is the caption "I think I need to buy a server" or "I think I need to buy a rocket launcher"?
Why not both?
I like it!
Citizens First Bank gave money to only republicans in 2020. There are few other right leaning banks out there. Suntrust Bank is another one.
Will have to worry about the commies nationalizing all banks before it’s over.
We are probably going to have to make our own everything pretty soon. I say sooner the better.
I've been arguing for conservatives doing this for 30 years.
https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf
I mean if that's what it takes, that's what we should do.
They've started minibanks to make purchasing weed easier, and you're telling me we can't do it for freedom?
More do nothing conservatism. This is why we lost up until Trump.
You fuckers never ask yourself, "How do I do this?"
You always start with "This isn't even possible. I haven't thought about it at all. I just know I can't do it. And because I can't, there's not a single other person in this 6 billion people world that can do anything I can't. It's hopeless."
Some low energy, low self-esteem, defeatist bitches in here.
You got any info on those minibanks? Knew there were issues with banking/Marijuana but never heard of that.
Nothing more than a quick search brings up since they don't have them in my state yet, but CA was doing it. It's mainly credit unions, but it should be way easier to set one up for conservatives as opposed to setting one up for drugs.
https://www.mmjfinsol.com/ is an example, but the reviews are less than stellar. It just shows that an extra type of money management system is possible. I would trust conservatives to manage their money more than opportunistic young start ups anyways.
It's what white South Africans ended up having to do after the ANC took over. And looking at how many banks are going all in on "diversity" bullshit, I'd say you're absolutely right, we do need our own banking.
I'm trying to imagine a bunch of guys at ebay sitting around saying "I don't know, it's it okay to build our own money system?" No one gave anyone permission to build PayPal, they just built it. Stop waiting for someone else to solve problems. Be high energy and go solve them.
There already is.. just use wordpress.org instead of wordpress.com. Then you have complete control over your website. This is such an easy fix.
And Remember go old school, dont use marxist controlled advertising middlemen, direct ads sells from the companies only (if using advertising sales).
Then they come after your internet provider. It never ends until we are silenced.
I assume, you never got "a fucking server going" for a public web service, that got 500k-1mill unique visitors?
The upvote/downvote ratio is probably a good indicator of the ratio of "internet users" to "people who actually know how to run services on the internet".
yes :)
It took me weeks to figure out how to run a server...
They’ll find a new home But I urge everybody to call Wordpress non-stop next week to voice displeasure. I will be.
Guys you don't need to use wordpress.com to utilize Wordpress for your CMS. Essentially all they are is a hosting provider for your WP site. They are 100% not needed.
It honestly surprised me that CTH was hosted on Wordpress.com servers. I never use them as they are always overpriced compared other company's hosting plans.
I imagine it was probably one of those scenarios where they just took the easy/straightforward route in the beginning to get it running and left it that way for a decade while working on content. Never really reconsidered their infrastructure.
Most people don't think about redundancy and the benefits of a private server until shit hits the fan.
YES! Fuck Ubuntu.
Gross.
Redhat is responsible for almost everything that's wrong with Linux nowadays. Systemd, Gnome 3, GTK 3... They're horrific.
CentOS
And while we are at it spam the shit out of them.
These people would put your family to the wall and execute them. You think they are going to be bothered by some phone calls?
Communist take over. If they win any conservative will be effectively removed from every platform.
Just wait until you see what they’ll do to you if Trump is removed. He was the only one standing between America and uncontested election fraud. The GOP will never win another election if Biden wins, the fraud will be unbreakable. Biden will pack the courts with his cronies so that the jury box option is eliminated. The only way out from a Biden victory is with the last resort solution.
They’ll also make an example out of Trump. He, His family and anyone who ever sold him a case of Diet Coke will be arrested and charged with falsified charges, maybe even executed if they feel like pushing it. It’s the final battle, right here, right now.
This would be pure insanity not even 5 years ago. The left has moved so fucking far into authoritarianism and they don't even see it. True evil is taking root all around us.
They see it. They are just such a massive cult that they dont care. Zealots for their cause and nutjobs with no nuts
They really are blind to it. They are the embodiment of everything they claim to despise.
I used to think they were blind. Not anymore.
They' not blind to it, in any way. They revel in it. "Hah hah, those nazis got deplatformed!"
Our country has been utterly polarized, thanks to people like Hillary Clinton, Barrak Obama, and the MSM. They have convinced the left that we are literally the enemy, who deserve no rights. Too many of them think we should be dead.
Even if Trump secures his second term, we still have to deal with the fact that half the country thinks we don't deserve civil rights. And probably never will at this point. They're too programmed.
Honestly, I know you mean well, but people like you who are completely blind to what is going on are a large part of why they are getting away with it. They think you are dumb, and you are kinda proving it here.
Oh they definitely see it, but they think they're "on the right side of history". My leftist ex-boyfriend literally told me that while he acknowledges people have the right to free speech, he didn't think they should.
Scared the absolute hell out of me to hear that since he's not even that far left. Imagine how bad the extreme leftists are!
"Free speech ackchyually hurts my fee fees. These nazibigotracistproudboyz should be banned from any ackchual discussion because they are wrong and I iz smart and on right side of history!"
That was basically it, yeah! Hahahaha!
I can see why he's the ex. I'd be running so fast if my gf ever said that.
Sadly, and to my shame, he actually ended it with me. I'd seen him waiver in his support for the Dems a couple of times when I pointed out some of their lies, so I kept hoping he'd wake up. Unfortunately, after the last red pill I dished out he freaked out and ended up doubling down after he talked to his lefty 'friends'.
I had something very similar happen to me! But my mistake was to disprove some claim about immigration he made in front on his friends, by pulling up statistics. He got very butthurt all night but I thought it was the alcohol. Two weeks later he announced that he couldn't accept how "radical" I was and that his friends had told him we should break up. It was the biggest BS excuse ever lol.
I'm sorry you've been through the same thing, but you know, I think we're both better off. Any guy who can't handle facts is not the kind of person you want to make a life with - I see that now, I just wish I'd seen it sooner.
Absolutely agree! And no need to dwell on the past, you've already learned your lesson :)
Yea people who are just “meh” democrats these days hold the most extreme positions and don’t know why. It’s a tragedy
Oh I am sure they wish they could do more than take our free speech away. They probably want to put us in gulags or straight up kill us, take our stuff and murder our families. Yet they call us nazis.
They had to. They milked the "Trust Us" approach to the point of losing the trust of their typical supporters. Now at that point you either go authoritarian or spend years trying to rebuild trust. Which do you think politicians would chose?
Makes it easier, when we finally kill Nazis again. I have no regrets or "regraetz"
Modern day book burning
Krystalnacht is more appropriate
and the anniversary is this week
The German book burning began with students burning pro-trans literature.
Lefties/marxists are marching their way back up to Pol Pot levels, to make fields of bleached bones full of eyeglass frames.
A Whole WIN & WIN Enchillada to clean this Election Cycle now and for our Posterity:
https://thedonald.win/p/11Q8EhtERu/for-everyone-who-wants-djtpence-/
I'm okay burning those.
DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS CREATED BY DEMOCRATS RIGHT NOW
Our Republic for which we Stand! For Generations now,
the Democracy Party trys to destroy our Republic, to make muh Democracy (aka mob rule, tyranny of the majority, evil.
the Marxists in the Dem Party, then want to turn that Democracy into a Commietopia. (even more evil); and yes Marxists like to attack at night!
Marxism (light) = Socialism
Marxism (medium) = Fascism
Marxism (heavy) = Communism
Marxism is evil in all its forms, and attracts all other evils too it. Marxism is an ideology which promotes violations of at least 3 of the 10 Commandments: Stealing, Covetting, and Killing/Murder.
LONG LIVE OUR REPUBLIC!!
“Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will." — Adolf Hitler
“The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.” —Adolf Hitler
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” —Hitler, May 1, 1927; quoted in Toland 1976, p. 306.
On “the money pigs of capitalist democracy”: “Money has made slaves of us. “Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.” —Joseph Goebbels,
“The worker in a capitalist state—and that is his deepest misfortune—is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker. He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces.” —Joseph Goebbels
It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If Europe were to become once more the Europe of bankers, of fat corrupt bourgeoisies, we should prefer Communism to win and destroy everything. We would rather have it all blow up than see this rottenness resplendent. Europe fights in Russia because it [i.e., Fascist Europe] is Socialist. …what interests us most in the war is the revolution to follow. The war cannot end without the triumph of Socialist revolution.” —Leon Degrelle,leading National Socialist figure, speaking on behalf of the Nazi SS in occupied Paris, 1943
We will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. … We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly. —Adolf Hitler
As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement. —Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
"We do not, however, accept a bill of rights which tends to make the individual superior to the State and to empower him to act in opposition to society.” —Alfredo Rocco, 1925
Have you actually ever listened to a Hitler speech? The Nazi party was around for over 20 years. It had over 5 million members. Every single member was a socialist who was completely against capitalism. None of them have ever said anything different. They were even giving speeches in occupied France telling people they were there to destroy capitalism.
What do you think it was all just a giant conspiracy where all of those 5 million members were all just pretending to be socialists but none of them ever spoke a word about their clever plot to anyone, not even each other?
The problem is you are a dumbass socialist who doesn't understand what socialism actually is. Every different socialist in history hated every other socialist. Leninists hated stalinists. Stalinists hated trotskyites. Maoists hated Soviets. Anarcho Communists hated the Soviets too. National Socialists hated Jewish Soviets...etc...etc They all hated each other. The fact that your group hated every other group doesn't make you special, in fact it is proof that you guys are leftists.
What all these socialists had in common, and why they are hated, is because they all hated freedom, loved big government, and hated capitalism (and national socialists are just the same)
Capitalists do not give a flying fuck about your stupid and imaginary ideological differences, only retard socialists like you do.
In the eyes of normal people, there is freedom and capitalism, and then there is human garbage socialists. It doesn't matter how many feathers you stick up your ass, you will always be a socialist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism
Redpill: It all stems from Marx and Engels.
In fact if you trace the leaders of marxist governments during the 20th century, so many of them even travelled directly or indirecty to the same cafe's in Paris, Berlin, etc.
How those marxist leaders impliment it in their countries, depends on their cultures and on the businesses/leaders in that country. So for instance, Like Commie Gov of CA has marxist Chi-Comm Valley on his team, he doesn't need to take them over in policy; just as Adolf didn't need to take over some of his industry directly or the German People wouldn't go for "total war" economy (see the famous speech after the loss of the Army in Stalingrad, pleading with the German people to go to a total war economy).
Fascism was the flavor which Benito Mussolini, put in and others also adopted; was what they needed for their taking over their countries.
Arguing about the differences between Mao and Stalin or Lenin or Maduro or Pol Pot or the long list of marxist movement/party leaders: Iran, India, Turkey, Egypt, Denmark, Vietnam, Cuba, and all the rest of Communism/Fascism/Socialism are arguements about to the degrees of the evil philosphy of Marxism/Engels (1848):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
[GEOPOLITICAL Redpill, you can't unsee once you see it.] The goal (by the Dems/globalists/marxists/interventionists) as an example, who got the US into Vietnam, was to deplete the US, and our resources, grind up American Patriots & local (Vietnamese) Patriots & monarchy; thus the marxists here in the US and in Vietnam could rise with less competition to power.
Same thing in other countries too, like China in the '40s; WW1, WW2, Post 9/11 etc. All over the map for 120 years now (including Russia 1917, etc.). Most of the entire 20th Century warfare and conlfict, and still today in 2020, is this.
Marxists start crap, escalation, countries fighting over some other pretense with the help of Marxists in power in those countries controlling policy/news/etc. And when a country or monarchy is weakened from war, the other marxists strike either overtly, or Long March through the Institutions; and the map grows in marxism both internationally and WITHIN countries.
I am not confusing it, the information is all there if you really want to read/watch it. Seriously you can spend the time listening to Benito youself if you like, read his and all the other leaders of Socialism, Fascism, Communism's books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
Redpill: BTW most all leaders of Marxism (who achieve(d) power) don't actually believe it it, they just use whichever version to achieve power; and purge out their fellow "true believers" or other rivals/leaders; which is why things rapidly devolve (under more marxism) into dictatorship(or as you say authoritarianism).
The narrative that "fascism" is "rightwing or not like Socialism or Communism" is pure propaganda provided by boatloads of propaganda during and since WW2; provided by the marxists themselves, as masterful misdirection, just like how they keep repeating and asking Trump or others to "disavow white surpemacy" when it's the Dems who are the KKK and all other flavors of La Raza raycysts and class warfarists.
Sorry I'm not conflating either. When you understand how these flavors of marxism all think the power of government exists, and where that power comes from; How economic production "works", etc. they stem from the same work Marx/Engels.
Not saying there aren't differences between the evil flavors of ice cream, but it's still all ice cream from the same spoiled milk of Marx/Engels.
People like yourself, that seem to want to say one flavor like chocolate is nothing like vanilla or strawberry; fail to see how and why the various flavors came about to be in the first place.
As an examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu
and his
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
and his
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament
Are not marxism.
Just as Christians broadly are people whom believe in Christ, and the teachings of Christ. There are lots of flavors in Christianity. But it's undeniable to say, they didn't stem from the same person/people/books.
Marxism in its various forms are:
Socialism (light marxism)
Fascism (medium marxism)
Communism (heavy marxism)
And these forms are based on how much marxism there is, be it just a little or medium or a lot.
WRONG on all levels. Fascism and Nazism and Communism were all based on Marxism. The Communists had a globalist view, the Fascists had a nationalist view. Other than that, they had most of the same policies. And they based all of it on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Those two guys were considered "great philosophers" in Germany during the time Hitler and his fellow travelers began forming a new party.
The German Nazis didn't hate the Communists because they were opposites. They hated them because they were competition for the same thing. The populace was already swinging hard towards the political Left due to the problems created after WWI, and Nazism and Communism had to compete in Germany for power on the Left.
The Right wing in Germany at the time which were the monarchists and conservatives posed zero threat to the Nazis, because the populace already blamed the Right for the war and giving into the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. They represented the failure of the Kaiser in most German's minds.
So the political battle for power was between Nazis and Communists on the LEFT. The Nazis won and the populace, who were already primed for a Marxist style government, quickly fell in line behind the NSDAP banner. During all of this, few thought ill of Marx or his ramblings and most in the world saw both the Nazis and the Italian Fascists as part of a new wave of Marxism.
It wasn't until the war and the uncovered atrocities that the Nazis became a universal euphemism for evil. And once that happened, the political Left in every country made a concerted effort to claim the Nazis were "far right". And now people like you believe that lie.
If you actually look at their policies, they are distinctly in line with Marxism.
You are correct.
Democrats are the real darkness.
HOLD THE LINE. They wouldn't be deplatforming where our news comes from if the information that would be shared there wasn't about to drop. I love CTH, and I have no doubt that they will get picked up by another webholder. But the timing of this shows us exactly what we need to see. CTH is a platform that will share the fraud, and they're trying to get in front of it.
We're going to win champs.
lmao what a retarded thought. They've been deplatformng for years with or without news. They do it because they hate us, and because they can, and they know we will never do anything visceral in return.
The timing is certainly interesting.
It isn't because something is about to drop, it is because they are literally in the middle of launching a coup (in front of everyone's eyes), and they don't want the people resisting, so they are cutting off our lines of communication.
I would agree.
It was a tactical weakness using mainstream hosts and services.
There should be hundreds of patriot run software companies fighting this by now, but far to many expect "the market" to solve - you are the market, let's start solving this.
Wish there was a place to organize the alt-tech effort.
The site started 10 years ago. Are you expecting people to foresee them going full gestapo and tyrannical? All these companies are the product of a free market and now that their owners and investors have goteen rich they see themselves as gods. Fuck these CCP tech tyrants.
"Google is such a cool company, 'don't be evil' is right in their mission statement. The future will be defined by the free exchange of ideas that will bring us all together. Thank you Google!"
No, I'm saying we need a wordpress.win, a google.win, a gmail.win, amazon.win, etc. Drop in replacements for communist platforms.
I'm building what I can (also have a full time job) but other patriots need do to learn to code, to hack, to network, manufacture, etc.
Its clear the market won't fix this for us and we are incredible danger by not having a robust set of alternatives.
We also need somebody with some clout to galvanize and orient the effort, get forums and resources aggregated, etc.
Yeah I've been saying this for a while too, but the sad truth is conservatives are inherently individualistic, and sadly, often selfish. While the left is working together taking over everything, any right winger involved in media who was somewhat successful was just saying "I got mine" and fighting off other conservatives for viewership.
Yes, many are. But for the handful of folks who want to make their own things, we need to be the model for others to follow.
I'm thinking about just setting up some of conservative technology forum and resource center myself. I just would want to know that other people would be interested first.
what we need is a search engine. The competitors to google have pathetic algorithms. I can't use duck duck go because I can never find the results I need.
Conservatives are very bad at connecting the brains with money. The money is usually intimidated by academic like types, or easily conned by idiots who don't know what they are doing. It isn't hard to set up good and cheap search technology, but it isn't getting done.
It'd be difficult, but I'd agree that that is pretty key. The challenge is that trying to make good search by with a crawlers indexing the internet wouldn't be better than what already exists.
One option is to make a niche search service that gets the results google suppresses but nothing else. Focus on just searching the suppressed stuff.
Another option is to get those sorts of suppressed results and piggy back the search results from goolge and other providers and then hydrate the censored contents back in.
Could make it a plugin like dissenter that has scored content for suppressed results and inserts them back into google's results (assuming that's legal).
this isn't quite right. Crawlers are a trivial, 20 year old technology. Its connecting what you type with what you want. Google excels at that.
All that conservatives need is a search engine that is as good as google and doesn't censor, and 50% of the country will switch to it immediately.
Yeah that would definitely be the starting point, but it is surprising that even duck duck go and bing have a hard time copying google. When I tried to work out why, it turned out that the number of possible searches is so infinitely large that it is mostly impossible to store all combinations. Google needs to search all its data every time you type a search. They do store results for the most common searches in a large cache, but they only get a cache hit about 60% of the time.
this kind of thing is a great idea. Definitely needed.
They won't give our private server centers a license to operate. They just regulate us right out of business.
LOL when their beloved alternative energy makes it impossible to shut off our power.
They'll still cut off your internet access, whether you have your own power or not. There needs to be legislation to protect political opinions from discrimination, and it needs to be backed with massive enforcement (I'm talking actual jail time for tech execs, not weak-ass fines).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
I trust Elon to give us free access once Starlink is online.
Edit: When I say free I don't mean the service will be free...
Hot tap.
I'd love to start a company. There is a giant market here. I don't yet have the software skills (starting a comp sci MS soon) but do have an MBA. Would love to be involved in an effort to create something.
U/jokerpede posted below you with skillz
Maybe this is where it starts?
If you don't know how to program, I'd strongly suggest learning it. The best business and executive folks I've worked with (even folks like lawyers) know how to make their own programs and automation.
As a tech lead, the business manager I work is also a programmer - and it makes my job so much easier because he can actually explain what he wants new features to do and understand the questions I ask.
I do know how to program, but I have not ever done it professionally (I am an electrical engineer). I need to up my skills because I don't think my code would be production quality at this point.
If you want to make a business with software, you don't need to be able to make a twitter or google quality product - you just need a low quality first version that lets you test your ideas, business plan, and marketing.
The aim is to get the product to work, test the crap out of it (there are always more bugs) and find out what people want - focus on tweaking a cheap version.
Once the product works overall, you can build a better version of it with higher quality code.
As you work on it, take notes of what went wrong and catalogue the skills you need to make the the next thing work. Take lots of notes, store them in a searchable system like a private wiki.
Fail fast, cheap, and often and focus on learning. And always use source control.
There is an outstanding book that goes over this iterative mechanism, I believe it is called "Running Lean".
Everything you say is true. You need to get your business off the ground as cheaply as possible, using your early adopters to give you feedback to tweak the product and add features that add value to your product.
There is a gigantic market opportunity with conservatives, especially regarding being able to communicate ideas without censorship.
Start networking.
You sound young and your youth will give you time to make a difference.
I'm almost 50 but ready to do something new. I look and feel 30. High energy here, people!
Did you contact that othe user I pinged?
It seemed coincidence that I saw you and his need to make shit happen so I made preliminary introductions.
I commented to his comment but no response so far.
Try messaging a user directly
Thanks
u/JokerPede claims to have the technical capabilities but needs a partner with the technical knowhow. You two should talk.
Thanks for the tip, will reach out.
If someone with business know how and capital wants to start one up I have the experience and technical know how
That u/fake name tag posted above you with an MBA supposedly.
What kind of company would you start? I can't believe there are no widely popular conservative friendly alternatives to facebook and twitter. Seems like there is a potential community of tens to hundreds of millions of freedom loving people.
Dammit
It begins, they feel very, very confident now. We must fight back hard!
"but I have a job"
Can they get a .Win. We need to help are brothers.
The CTH domain name isn't the issue (yet), it's their content host that is deplatforming them. They can point their domain at a new host.
It will be healthy for sites to become more self-sufficient on the Internet. There are too many middlemen that can wield influence.
There's lots of $$$ being made in the blogosphere.
So much so that little guys are being pushed out. And the middle sized bloggers pay for plugins and services to help them get noticed by search engines.
We should really build our own search engine as well.
True but, depending on the niche, it's no longer a matter of "if you build it they will come" any more.
Move to .win
This is just the beginning.
If you want to run a Wordpress website don't use wordpress.com use wordpress.org this way you can pick any hosting provider you want. You will have complete control over your website when using wordpress.org.
How to convert from wordpress.com to wordpress.org: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-move-your-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/
Honestly this is such an easy fix. Clone the website, fine a hosting provider and transfer the domain and contents to that provider.
They're probably not to technical, contact them and let them know about this option, even as a temporary solution. (why else would someone be using wordpress.com?)
People new to Wordpress have a tendency to start out with wordpress.com because of the following:
Benefits of using wordpress.com Despite the limitations of WordPress.com, there are some benefits. These may help you realize the difference between wordpress.com vs wordpress.org, according to your needs:
Your site can be set up in minutes. It offers free 3GB storage space. You can focus entirely on creating your content as you do not have to worry about server hosting, updates, and file backups. It is a perfect choice for hobby blogging, portfolio, and family WordPress sites because you can immediately build a website with their 100% free plan. You have access to technical support. Limitations of hosted wordpress.com Despite the few benefits of a WordPress.com site, there are major limitations you want to seriously consider:
On the wp.com platform, wp.com hosts your site, so you do not have full control of your site. You run the risk of losing your site if you go against the rules of WordPress. WordPress.com is a commercial platform. To make their profit, they place ads on all websites hosted on the free plan. This means there really is nothing you can do about it unless you upgrade to a paid WordPress.com business plan. The free plan only allows you to install a limited number of themes on your website. You are not allowed to upload custom or premium themes and plugins. This is because the extensibility of wordpress.com is very limited. Unless you upgrade to Premium and business plans, you cannot add custom CSS. The only way to remove the powered by wordpress.com or blog at WordPress.com is to upgrade to a paid Business plan. There are no provisions for eCommerce website builders and integrated payment gateways. If your site is able to generate a lot of traffic, you will get the privilege to advertise with WordAds on request, and share the revenue with them.
That's the same spiel I used when poached writers on the internet for my old publisher. LOL
Wordpress.org is the only way to go. Complete control. Honestly I can't believe a website getting that much traffic was using wordpress.com.
Can CTH migrate their shit and simply go the UGC route with the org version of WP?
u/Red_Dawn20
Do not post AMP links!
This is the actual link URL:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/15/the-treehouse-is-deplatformed/
See how it differs?
AMP is bad, do not share AMP links here or anywhere else.
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/
Mods, you stickied an AMP link. Please pay attention. At least fix the link before stickying.
Holy shit, that's scary and describes exactly what they're trying to do.
"It’s a technology that makes mobile page results load very quickly on Google, it displays the content in a more uniform fashion. But there’s a problem.
The content loads off of Google’s own server, not from the website itself.
Like Medium, where you get all these amazing advantages of content publishing—but only if you write on their service—Google AMP is progress that takes us backwards.
I’m not one to claim that original ideas always need to be perfectly preserved. Sometimes old ideas need to die out and be replaced by better ones. But this isn’t one of those.
The entire point of the Internet was to directly connect content.
The idea is to have different people create things that were connected to each other. That’s why they called it a web.
web But now we’re seeing these new models that are looking to break the system. Create central platforms and get everyone using it. Build a search engine and display people’s content without passing the user through to it.
It’s poisonous to the underlying concept of an open internet.
If this were to become widely adopted, you’d search for something, get results, consume the content, and you’d never leave Google."
*****UNLESS WE DISAGREE WITH YOU
FUCK WORDPRESS. AND FUCK THE FUCKING DIAZ BROTHERS.
YOU KNOW.... Silicon Valley is a real place in California, where HORDES of angry patriots could form up and protest continually. If you're busy, no problem! Show up when you're able. Leave when you want! Come in for a few hours opposite your shift, BS a bit, bring some street food and then go home for a shower. There's no need to disrupt your life if we kept the protest going continually, as is ENTIRELY justified. Consider it a replacement for televised sports.
Not a huge deal technically - they need to find a new web hosting service. But very troubling that they’re now coming for your websites. No longer just banning you from their platforms. This does not end well.
Might also be an excuse to not host them for practically free. They get an immense amount of clicks a day and are a drain on WP’s resources I’d guess
Wordpress is a terrible cancer.
It has been destroyed by a Javascript cult.
They are better off without Wordpress, though migrating is weeks of work and a lot of money to essentially be right back at zero and with lost viewership/readership.
WordPress is PHP, not JavaScript. It's also horribly insecure and wretched software besides that. Content management at its absolute worst.
Oh my, you have to take a look at the shit the have stacked on top of that fucking mess.
I swear to god, it is absolute shit.
I have no doubt. It's been garbage from the start. I refuse to touch any job that even mentions WordPress!
You ever do a flat file site? I am making some (mostly) static sites for friends and personal use and I feel like this is juuuust easy enough for my casual ass to implement. Slap a free css/javascript framework on the outside, fill in content and leave it up for ads to be sent towards the site.
I have done many. I recommend them for many companies.
We need to start a patriotic tech alliance of talent and financiers to build out our own, well, everything!
No it's fine, just don't use wordpress.com use wordpress.org! There is absolutely no need to have wordpress.com host your website.
I built and managed a few Wordpress sites and the .org version is a god damn nightmare now with something the Javascript Cult in charge call "Gutenburg" - which has broken the whole ecosystem.
It is a shame and I am sure there is more to it. This software was an incredible tool for letting little people like me make fairly nice web sites independently and without a lot of overhead vis a vis money and maximum freedom to take my data and go to any server space I liked.
There's a plugin that keeps WP in Classic instead of the new Gutenberg. Since I do my own programming, I didn't like the idea of Gutenberg when it was announced and have avoided it.
If you do not know HTML / CSS, ETC. when using Wordpress then the best builder to use in my opinion is Elementor which is fantastic. I don't mess with Gutenburg.
Cleaned up link https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/15/the-treehouse-is-deplatformed/
Lend an ear...we are going to have to put aside "social media" platforms and go back to the original roots of the web to protect ourselves and assure we have the ability to deliver our thoughts and messaging to the world.
What I mean by that is, back in the day, before browsers supported images, movies and the like, "the web" was text only, if you wanted to say something online, you learned basic HTML, registered a domain, found a hosting company and put up your website. One didn't sign up for Blogger or Wordpress because they simply didn't exist.
While there is certainly a convenience to using their software, IF THE PRICE IS CENSORSHIP AND TYRANNY THEN CONVENIENCE IS OF NO VALUE TO US AS INDIVIDUALS OR A SOCIETY!
Anyone who uses this site, has a smart phone, can cook a meal from a recipe or put gasoline in their own car is intelligent enough to do this. Pure, old fashioned HTML isn't "programming". It's simply a series of simple "tags" that are put at the front and back of words, sentences or paragraphs.
If you can remember to put an "<h2>" at the start of your headline and "</h2>" at the end of it, you are halfway home! (for example: <h2>My headline</h2>)
Other "tags" surround your paragraphs. This can be done without special software, even with the clunkiest of computers, using a text editor. Every computer since Windows 1.0 (or a Mac) has a text editor program on it. (Windows: Notepad, Wordpad ; Mac: TextEdit, TextMate)
Will these sites be as "cool" as the fancy, select a theme to suit your mood Wordpress or Blogger sites? Probably not unless you dig a little deeper into building web pages, which again is nice but wholly unnecessary to accomplish the goal of keeping your site out of the hands of the censors.
This is only scratching the surface. Look into it yourself or reply to this post to ask questions. Mishima is here for America!
I made my own web pages (on places like Geocities) using that old-fashioned hand-coded HTML more than 20 years ago. <hr> horizontal lines separating sections!
It worked just fine; we don't need all the bells and whistles of today's blogs to get our content out.
At this point, it's safe to assume that any service that is not explicitly and proudly MAGA will "deplatform" us. I've been saying for a long time that reliance on woke platforms for communications is a huge vulnerability. They will all legally and effortlessly turn us off. This site is a perfect example of how to address that problem.
Burn Wordpress to the ground.
We'll start seing more and more of this as conservatives and republicans wash their hands of Trump and indicate they are not willing to put out a fight.
That’s fine. We don’t need their platforms. This site is proof of that.
An inconvenience, yes, but really in the end Wordpress is the one who will lose. And lose bigly.
This is fucking awful. That is one of the best sites we have. I hope they can find a new home soon. I've been following them for years.
Epik.com host most conservative sites. I moved my stuff there years ago because they value free speech
Assuming you mean epik.com (for those who don't know). I highly recommend them as well.
Thanks, I did an edit on that!
If only there were more than one web hosting company or perhaps the ability to run one's own server(s)! Dammit, but there's NOT! Their current host is THE ONLY WAY to have an Internet presence! They're DOOMED!
It's the principal of the move as much as it is the inconvenience.
You really aren't paying attention
Meh, this will get their butts into gear into migrating to a more modern platform.
Conservative Treehouse doesn't really break news, so they'll be pretty much immune to ddos attacks and won't need advanced setups.
Just migrate to a modern platform and have a parallel backup as a static website so no server is even involved. ctlite (conservative treehouse lite)
And sue WordPress for discovery to find what their internal reasoning on this is.
All he has to do is:
...and just like that...he's back up and running - no shenanigins.
Too many people keep hosting with politically shady providers - and whining about it - instead of just hosting themselves.
What you see happening with hosting is what the big banks and online payment will do to you financially.
It’s already happening. Businesses that banks and online don’t agree with are being shut out.
Milo predicted all of this years ago. They don’t need to silence you, they just cut off your access to money.
Someday we'll be an apartheid state based on ideology where conservatives have things like Parler, Rumble, and small community banks/credit unions and the only ones left on Twitter will be radical leftists in an echo chamber, who ironically will be left with the big banks they claim to despise.
.win Website! Let's make it happen!
I have a suggestion: how about we all deplatform/ demonetize/delegitimize the entire MSM propaganda apparatus in a thunderous crescendo?
[A copy of a post I made earlier]
The Way to Crush Them All in the MSM in One Fell Swoop--and Stop Funding the Enemy Propaganda Machine within (HINT: CUT THEIR FUCKING BALLS RIGHT OFF!!)
Hello all from a noob to this fantastic oasis! I stumbled on this site after the Great Steal began and have been amazed that I never knew it existed. I see why Judge Jeanine gave you a shout out. :)
Please stick with me, as I have a very serious proposition that I think you all may be able to help with to affect a very real and very serious change on the effect of the MSM propaganda machine, and very quickly. If I were tech savvy, I'd insert an animation of a nutsack being lopped off, but I am not. If I had a huge platform with which to spread the idea, I'd do it there, but I do not. BUT, if you've got the judge's attention you do. So, please, spread this idea (or a better version of it).
Basic idea up front: whether we hate the MSM (and the propaganda they spread) or not they get paid every month by every cable or satellite tv subscriber. Oddly enough, based upon demographics, the more likely you are to be a MAGA maniac, the more likely you are to be a cable or satellite subscriber. We are funding our enemy's propaganda machinery. That is insane! The great news about that is that WE CONTROL THAT CONTINUING OR CEASING IMMEDIATELY!
The basic stats are there about 90 million cable subscribers and about 25 million satellite subscribers. Whether you ever watch the MSM channels or not, the MSM outlets get a piece of that, some of them over $1 a month. So, while we rage at them they laugh and pocket about $100 million a month. Let that sink in. $100 million a month. That's a lot of money and power to spread their filth.
I don't know what forces are behind what's going on to try and rip our country apart and I don't know what actually motivates the executives and personalities at the MSM outlets as I am not clairvoyant, but I have a pretty good idea that for most of them it is the age old desire for power and money.
We can rip that away from them. We can effectively slice that ballsack of money right off each outlet and cripple their machine because it grinds to a halt without the money we feed it. STOP FINANCING THE ENEMIES OF OUR COUNTRY AND BY RESULT US AS INDIVIDUALS AND OUR CHERISHED WAY OF LIFE!!
If you can help spread the idea to that vast sea of patriotic Americans out there that there is a real impact if we all en masse cancel our cable or satellite subscriptions NOW we will watch the propaganda machine begin to disintegrate before our very eyes.
GOAL: LESS THAN 69 MILLION CABLE AND SATELLITE SUBSRIBERS BY NEXT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH!
I am reaching out to the group of Americans that is: willing to endure hours-long lines and any weather to attend a GEOTUS rally, willing to spend hours seeking information about topics pertinent to the Great Steal, willing to take to the streets in their cities in (actual and absolutely) peaceful protest (while risking life and limb knowing that ANTIFA and/or BLM thugs may show up and do them harm), willing to sacrifice what is necessary to be a part of the process of rescuing the integrity of our election system, and willing to do all the things that may be asked of them to save our republic from the evils of those who wish to fundamentally change (read: destroy) America. For all that you are willing to do that involves real effort and real sacrifice, this is easy, but don't underestimate how impactful.
None of us need anything that is being pumped in through that cable box or satellite dish to lead free, healthy, informed, contented lives. But, we do need to maintain the way of life that the extreme, violent, Marxist, globalist left and its willing accomplices in the MSM are trying to tear asunder. We can't all be Rudy, Sidney or L Lin fighting the legal battles. We can't all drive across the country to be a part of a historic protest in DC. We can't all do a lot of things. But, we can all do this.
LESS THAN 69 MILLION CABLE AND SATELLITE SUBSCRIBERS BY NEXT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH
Please, treat this with the same (or greater) seriousness that you would've with spreading logic to on the fence acquaintances or family before the election, or with trying to make sure that your like-minded acquaintances or family members voted. This is even more important. Try and get at least 3 people that you know that have cable or satellite to commit to you personally that they will cancel their subscription by next Friday. Giving up cable or satellite is nothing like giving up the way of life that we used to enjoy.
https://godfatherpolitics.com/if-you-have-cable-you-are-paying-your-money-to-cnn/
They are deplatforming a lot of companies. Also a lot of reporters kicked off twitter. Also a lot of users are being kicked off everywhere that isn't being seen.
Theconservativetreehouse.win ??
So, lastrefuge.win, then?
COMMS CHECK
PRIMARY
thedonald.win, gab, voat, parler, telegram, riot.im
SECONDARY
email chains, 4chan, 8kun, memes, conservative treehouse, new popup sites
TERTIARY
churches, armories, city meetings, local demonstrations, adhoc wifi networks
SHTF
fire stations, police stations, cert meeting place, local schools, ham radio (IPoHAM), news couriers (trucks, trains, planes)
We really are in the middle of Soviet style censorship.
They are possibly the single biggest platform on the web. An insane number of websites use Wordpress. It's not just blogging. It's businesses, stores, ecommerce, tons of stuff. If it's going the way of Twitter, and it looks like it is, it's going to hurt. But we must do what we must. If businesses or others want to stay they will have to "behave" now right? Wrong.
Sounds like WordPress needs deplatformed
Which raises a good question: Wordpress is ubiquitous but it’s not the only platform is it? If Wordpress has gone to the dark side then Blogger which is owned by Google is certainly not even an option. It might be a good thing to have a resource sticky that keeps a list of “kosher” (for Now anyway) platforms.
This is a misleading post.
I assume they are using wordpress.com hosting? This means they are being kicked off wordpress.com's hosting. They still can download the wordpress software (it's open source), and host an exact copy of their current site somewhere else.
Since they own their domain, it's less than a day of work to move.
Yeah really it's not a big deal technically. But a hosting company shouldn't refuse service based on political ideology. (of course legally they have the right) Now to the legal part... This would make their business a publisher not a platform. They now have to be very careful with thier other clients...