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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: 2) by ikanreed on Sunday June 21 2015, @01:30AM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 21 2015, @01:30AM (#198879) Journal

    A host choosing to follow the law rather than not isn't surprising.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:12AM (#198915)

    The host wasn't in violation of any laws, and until a court verdict, neither was the hosted service. Innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:02AM (#198951)

      > The host wasn't in violation of any laws, and until a court verdict, neither was the hosted service.

      Yeah and it isn't burglary until the burglars are caught and convicted.

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