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We’ve all read the news: Twitter has banned the President of the United States and many of his supporters from their service. Hosting enterprises like Amazon Web Services have tossed conservative-leaning sites from their servers. Apple and Google have removed apps like Parler from their app stores.
So, is Ricochet vulnerable?
No. This community is hosted by Astroluxe, a hosting enterprise founded by like-minded businesspeople. One of them is an old friend of Ricochet’s, Charles Cooke, the original Conservatarian. The other is John Ekdahl, who in addition to being a web developer extraordinaire, is also a fierce 1st Amendment advocate. We’re proud to be in business with them.
Charlie had this to say about hosting Ricochet in this perilous moment: “The Internet was designed to be a distributed, open platform on which people could speak without permission and argue as they saw fit. Astroluxe is committed to that idea, even as others rush to abandon it. We’re proud to host Ricochet, and a host of other websites, on which a broad range of opinions are shared.”
All of which is to say this: Ricochet is here to stay. We’re not worried about being “deplatformed” or tossed off a hosting site. Our hosting partners and our members have the same unwavering bedrock commitment to liberty, freedom of speech, and spirited civil conversation.
To our fellow members, our deepest thanks. To those who have yet to join, we’re eager to have you. To the entire community, we are here to stay.
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I see a HUGE money-making opportunity here. If you have the server and the software in place already, why not make it available for others to rebrand after they get de-platformed.
I recently joined a Facebook group devoted to close reading of literature (tied to the Close Reads podcast of the Circe Institute) and yesterday I saw posts from members complaining that they have to use Facebook to be part of that community. Some seemed to want to leave FB because it is a time drain but others seemed to want to leave for moral/political reasons. Maybe such a group could migrate to a truly “safe space”?
Time for someone to create a protected credit card? And if that can’t be done, there is alway Uncle Vito. Ways are always found.
There might be a fairly large-scale shift – or “pivot” as the kids seem to say now – to cash in many areas.
Mark Steyn opines on why he dosn’t use social media.
https://www.steynonline.com/10931/looking-for-the-great-escape
Hey, @britanicus! Nice to see you! I’m glad you’re still here.
Dear Founders: Don’t you think it’s a little early to thump your chests about this? The fun is just beginning.
Fake John/Jane Galt
Those types of nodes are everywhere, though, and it’s largely built due to demand for data, for residential and commercial uses. For utilities, roughly millions of devices in the field use carrier networks to send and receive data (AMI meters being a more obvious example), but not just to look at data, but to control devices in the field.
Self-healing networks. Reclosers. More particularly, gas pipelines, which have pressure monitoring and controls to increase or decrease flows, and supply from 3rd-party providers of gas.
It’s worse than a facility like AT&T. Those pipelines and devices in the field are often laughably easy to break into, even if the devices are behind a cage. They’re locked with a padlock, that any set of bolt cutters can cut easily.
Or go the easy route and just set something on fire. Then it won’t work. But the vulnerabilities are legion, which is also why that bombing was so strange, no one got hurt, no big reason given.
It would really take very little to set a municipality back six months. Impact tens of thousands of people. And here we are, worried about which chowderhead gets to beclown himself as president.
The chowderhead president can impact tens or even hundreds of millions of people.
Bitcoin and ETH
Gab offers e-checks
Visa cut them off last summer
ACH might have rules that prevent the credit-card chicanery. Although I’m more wary of giving my bank info to a “chat service.”
kedavis – you can also mail them a check
or pay with bitcoin
https://help.gab.com/faq/how-to-donate-gab-com
Your checks have the same information on them: bank routing number, and account number.
Plus your home address…
A cashier’s check, then.
Gab’s bitcoin address: 3DjemruRRvunHTHxNJbwoRCzCFWagw6vo2
Thanks honey. You’ll note that that is always going to be true, regardless of which one is in office.
Get the point?
It will be funny if the government stance against conservatives forces the abandonment of the American dollar as we all to for the bit coins of the world.
A cashier’s check won’t have your personal bank account numbers on it, but when you buy it from the bank it will have your name and home address on it.
A money order could be traced too, back to where you bought it, and even if you paid cash for it the store might have you on video.
I’m not honey.
But I do understand, although apparently you don’t.
Do too! Do too understand!
Was this the article also referencing ham radio? Being a ‘ham’s myself, I am wondering….