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According to an announcement by Voat administrator Atko, HostEurope.de has shut down the servers of Reddit alternative Voat on the grounds of Voat hosting "political [sic] incorrect" content. This was done without warning and without reference to any specific content. Voat has since moved to CloudFlare.
takyon: CloudFlare is displaying Error 520 for the site, so here are some other articles about Voat:
Censorship, fat-shaming and the 'Reddit revolt': How Reddit became the Alamo of the Internet's ongoing culture war
Reddit users flee to Swiss copy Voat after harassment clampdown
Amid censorship brouhaha, Reddit clone Voat has its servers closed by hosting provider
Anti-censorship community Voat dropped by hosting service over 'political correctness'
From VentureBeat:
"Our hosting provider, hosteurope.de, has terminated all our contracts and shut down all our servers without issuing a warning or trying to talk to us," wrote Atko. "This includes my private server which was only used to host my girlfriend's blog. She is a scientist. She published her research papers on that blog (preformatted papers to which she owns the copyright). That server contained no other data whatsoever."
Atko says the only reasons he was given by the host were: "We have received significant information that the content on your server includes political incorrect parts that are unacceptable for us" and "we cannot keep bond of trust to you as our customer."
Original Submission
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 20 2015, @01:58PM
Officially, the US won the Cold War. Behind the scenes, the focking commies converted damned near everyone to their way of thinking. Politically correct? That shit really chafes my ass. Being politically correct only means that you are not man (or woman) enough to speak your own mind, so you're willing to parrot the sons of bitches on television, who are happy to tell you what to think. I'd rather you insult me for being American, than to give me all those fake smiles. I'd rather you mock me for my Polish heritage, than listen to you singing Kumbaya. Hate me for being a veteran, instead of smiling vacuously, and telling me that everyone is equal. Because, I have zero respect for the politically correct zombies of the world. I'd rather take an ass whipping, than to sit and listen to metro sexual little weenie heads blathering on and on about how alike we all are. Communists, all of you!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @02:42PM
Communism/Zionism won and they control media. TV tells people what to think and what to do. TV gives people weak male role models (Homer Simpson, etc).
Beer belly? OOh yeah! Everybody has it.
Beauty queens in their 20's and fugly in their 30's? Yes, its expected; fugly is normal; not taking care of yourself is your duty.
Afraid of real Mathematics? Everybody is; nobody studies such boring, useless things.
Mindless sports? Lets go Yankees!
Everything is going according to plan. Soon NWO will take over if men of character do nothing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @11:06PM
the US won the Cold War
The USA permanently tied its economy to the production of weapons and a perpetual state of war to use up those weapons so that more weapons would "need" to be produced.
If your lens is really distorted, I guess that would be a "win".
As all of WOPR's simulations clearly demonstrated, in some undertakings there are no winners.
the focking commies converted damned near everyone to their way of thinking
...and coerced groupthink was/is completely foreign to The American Way.
{Wave flag here}
not man (or woman) enough to speak your own mind
You failed to mention McCarthyism and the black lists--and the purges that occurred decades before that.
{Wave flag here}
-- gewg_