It appears that one of my newest favorite websites, Activist Post (www.activistpost.com) has been taken down by its host, Blogger.com. Activist Post posts original articles and articles from other websites that highlight the news items of what various government agencies and the military are up to, and investigative reporting on the latest injustices, corruption and crimes, that we don’t hear about from cowards government lapdogs gutless weasels mainstream news sources.
I am suspicious of this, especially given that Blogger.com is owned by Google. And we know about the cozy relationship between Google and the Obama Administration. It’s very suspicious. TPTB do not like their corruption and crimes being exposed, and they have been very happy lately with the complicity and cover-ups of the mainstream media, the subservient, obedient stenographers of the so-called “free press.” It would not surprise me that Blogger shut down Activist Post for political reasons, not particularly from the web people and managers of Blogger.com, but from pressure from TPTB.
Does this mean that they are going to shut down MY website, too? Or LewRockwell.com, Infowars, Future of Freedom Foundation, Antiwar.com, Strike the Root, The Daily Bell, Washington’s Blog, Economic Collapse Blog, the SHTF Plan, The Burning Platform, Glenn Greenwald, the Tenth Amendment Center, and many other “challenging the status quo” websites and blogs? These websites and blogs are openly critical of the status quo of statism and centralism, and have been trying to expose how governments in America, federal, state and local, have been removing our liberty and our rights, from the left and from the right, and the people who cherish freedom DON’T LIKE THAT!
I can see why those people in power don’t like being exposed for what they are. But they do have power, that’s for sure.
In fact, just recently, the other major blogging website (in competition with Blogger.com), WordPress.com, had threatened to suspend Rick Rozoff’s website, Stop NATO, but it is still up. The message from WordPress was: “Warning: We have a concern about some of the content on your blog. Please click here to contact us as soon as possible to resolve the issue and re-enable posting.”
Do you think the same kind of thing happened to Activist Post? But this time, they’ve been taken down without warning, without the chance to copy their material to transfer to a different blog? (Jeepers, I hope it doesn’t happen to me, after two years of a lot of writing and hard work that I put into this website.)
9 Responses to “Where Is Activist Post?”
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This is suspicious, but may have been an honest, or even “honest” error. If it is not corrected in good time, we will have to raise some form of hell. Such a loss would be too great.
Censorship by Google is simply not acceptable.
Thank you very much for writing this article. We are already working on a new design . . . on a more independent platform. Probably a blessing in disguise what happened here. Thanks for your support!
It would be prudent to have entire sites backed up so they can be uploaded elsewhere at once (hopefully found with a redirect). My best to activist post, and to any others that are threatened. Until you are restored, you will be sorely missed!
Still down….
I hope activist post comes back soon and if not please take my email address and forward the new website, as this blog is a true resource of information not like that phony stuff we see on tv and hear on the radio at least for the most part.
I was always fearful about hosting or utilizing generic blog/forum pre-made templates.
They sort of got yuh by the curlies.
So, I just used a computer as a server in my own home since about August 2004. I sort of felt good about having my own server and saving the commercial hosting costs involved through these past 7 years or so. Every bit of software required to run your own server is available for free at UseNet, so the cost of having your own server is just the purchase of some cheap dual core computer. (Maybe 600 bucks.) Google and The Clowns still index the content on my server.
Actually, I am somewhat offended to see Google at my site because they never asked for my consent before stealing everything I had. Google never asked about “copyright”, they just steal it and then it is up to me to identify copyright issues and complain so that they could remove my content, or whatever from their servers.
It irritates me that Ordinary Joe’s are being charged or sued by media groups for posting copyright content from Reuters and whatever, but they got no qualms about stealing everything I have and without my consent.
I change the URL to my website the minute that I see Google and The Clowns arrive. I have noticed that if I was to send an email to a friend which contained the new URL address, Google would be at my site within 48 hours. Which means that they are clipping e-Mail address for any URL content.
This month I decided to purchase a commercial host and paid the hundred bucks per year, but I have continued posting on my own server first and then upload a copy of the post to the commercial hosting service.
Over the yearsI have seen too many instances of where Google or generic template blog/forum sites are being shut down.
Calm
I guess I should of mentioned that I sort of have the same kind of website (news aggregator) which Information Clearing House has, and I opened my site a year later than ICH. Since 2004, I have created about 30 thousand pages which contain about 100 thousand or more articles and commentary which I found (stole) while travelling around in Mouse Land. (It is almost a full time job.) I believe that I have the largest “privately owned” news aggregator website in North America. My site has at least 5 times the content which ICH has.
So you would understand why I prefer my own server rather than worry about some faceless corporation simply deleting it all.
The only thing which irritates me about sites like ICH is that Tom Feely the website owner is always begging for money when all he does is steal every bit of content like I do from different sources around Mouse Land. ICH has no writers on staff and don’t generate or produce any content themselves, and ICH is not sharing any of the money raised with those who created or wrote the content in the first place.
I might steall everything (like Google does), but I don’t beg for money because I think it is unseemly to do so.
Calm
I just clicked on http://www.activistpost.com/ and it is up. It would be easy to just contact them and ask why they were down.