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posted by takyon on Saturday June 20 2015, @11:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the downvoat dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @11:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @11:06PM (#198822)

    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_