Category: Blogging

WordPress Deplatforms Conservative Treehouse, NOT the First and Won’t be the Last!

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 6 Comments

Many of you have sent me the news that the Conservative Treehouse (aka The Last Refuge) has been notified by WordPress.com that they are being given the heave-ho and now must find a new host for their popular site.

When I saw the news of course I felt bad for them because I have been there.

Longtime readers here and at my blog, Refugee Resettlement Watch, which was birthed and began being hosted by WordPress in 2007 (and into early 2019), know that the same thing happened to me.

But, at least the Treehouse was given notice and time to remove their material.  I was shut down without notice and had to hire a professional webmaster to help me get my material, but even with that, all of my photos/graphs/charts and all of my thousands of subscribers did not make it to the new RRW.

Search engines (Google at least) still directs people to the old closed site.

(In the meantime, I had started Frauds & Crooks and got it removed from WordPress before they could do a job on it too.  I am at a hopefully safe host for now!)

By the way, I was not alone.  Creeping Sharia and Bare Naked Islam got the WordPress ax before I did.  I should have known it was coming.

I discuss all of that here in a panel discussion on Censorship at the Social Contract gathering in the fall of 2019.

So when I saw the news about the Conservative Treehouse, my first thought was why hadn’t the blogger(s) there made the move sooner.

You can read all about my communication with WordPress.com over their censorship by going here.  They said I had violated their “terms of service” after I contacted them to ask where was my site?

Upon review of your WordPress.com site we have determined that your content does not align with our Terms of Service or User Guidelines.

Signed by the Aline, the Community Guardian (that is not a joke!)

So, on July 2nd (this is all happening in 2019) I went back to the “community guardian” and asked these questions:

Can you tell me exactly what caused your concern about Refugee Resettlement Watch. This month marks the 12th anniversary of the launch of that blog with you. And, in recent months there has been little new activity there. So just wondering why it is now, after all this time, [it’s] not aligned with your terms of service.

Is there a particular post(s) that concerned you and if so could you direct me to them?

Have you had recent complaints about the blog even as it hasn’t been active for many months?

Were references to certain organizations a concern?

Would really love to know as I find another host for the nearly 9,000 posts archived at RRW.

Greatly appreciate any feedback you can give me!

Thank you!
Ann Corcoran

The Community Guardian responded.  She says flat-out they don’t have to give me any reasons!

Here is what I received in response on July 3rd.  We can call it the ‘go pound sand’ brush-off e-mail:

Upon review of your WordPress.com site we have determined that your content does not align with our Terms of Service or User Guidelines. As stated in our Terms, we may choose to stop providing service to an account at any time, for any reason, or none at all. We aren’t able to offer any further specifics.

We’ve canceled your WordPress.com subscription and refunded the purchase….

[….]

To download your content and take it elsewhere, the export tool below will be available for the next two weeks…

[….]

If you would like to continue using WordPress software for your site, you can import this file into a self-hosted WordPress installation with a different host.

Notice the threat!

Please keep in mind that other hosts may have similarly restrictive policies regarding this type of content. 

[Signed] Community Guardian

But, they never admit what exactly is the “type of content” they are censoring!

All of that was to preface my comments on this story at The Lid:

TECH TYRANNY: Silencing Conservative News With A Sick New Tactic — This Is Big

 

Go read it.  But, The Lid beware!  This form of censorship is NOT NEW! You are nuts to stay on WordPress.com. They will find you as soon as you become a threat to some group or individuals on the Commie Left.

If Biden and his comrades have their way we will be communicating by quietly traveling around the country and meeting in peoples’ basements!

Endnote:  Story for another day!  Someone should investigate WordPress.com and the company that owns it Automatic!  

Tucker Carlson: Big Tech Censors Busier Than Ever

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 5 Comments

In case you missed it, Tucker Carlson had a great opening monologue last night about how Google and Facebook are, more than ever, blocking your ability to see anything that goes against the Leftwing narrative about Donald Trump’s presidency and especially his handling of the Chinese Virus panic.

Normally I try not to post information that is widely available, but you need to see this (surprisingly as of this writing it has only 122 views).

I was especially interested in the discussion with Breitbart editor Alex Marlow that begins at the 9:40 mark where he explains how the tricky b******* at Google have limited Breibart’s reach.

 

And, I guess you have already seen how the Leftwing media has viciously attacked the African doctor speaking on the video that was taken down yesterday.  Just a reminder that ALL Black Lives Do Not Matter!   Clearly, she is one African immigrant the Left would love to deport!

And, one more thing.  I have argued for years that you all should consider setting up blogs and websites of your own.  You know if Biden wins that most alternative media will be wiped out, probably me too.  But, I’m thinking if thousands of you are blogging, they might not be able to silence everyone.

The Coronavirus Curse May Spell the End for Media as We have Known it….

~ Ann Corcoran

….which means there is a great opportunity for any of you who want to launch your own web-based media either national or more importantly state and local websites and blogs.

I have for years—a dozen actually—been urging all of you to consider writing your own blogs.

There is a crying need for citizen investigative journalists who would follow various government programs as watch dogs.

And, as local newspapers die, you should consider becoming the news outlet in your own community, county or state. What are you waiting for!

There may be silver linings to be found with this COVID crisis after all.  Small local newspapers are likely to go down, see here at The Hill last week:

Local news outlets struggle to survive coronavirus fallout

Sad (maybe), but if your city or county is like mine, the local newspaper was long ago gobbled up by a Left-leaning mega media company blatantly putting its slant on the local news.

Enough of the nagging, here is what I wanted you to see that should bring a smile to your faces.

From Kurt Schlichter writing at Town Hall (hat tip: Paul):

Our Super Smart Elite Shines During This Pandemic!

We Americans are truly blessed by having a mainstream media full of brilliant renaissance men, women, and gender non-specific entities who are masters of so many varied and intermittently useful skills and who are eager to share their knowledge with us benighted souls. The pandemic has revealed that every urban Twitter blue check scribbler, MSNBCNN panelist, NYT/WaPo doofus, and barely legal “senior editor” of a website you never heard of, is a Nobel Prize-winning epidemiologist, a master logistician, and a diversity consultant too boot.

They may all be lousy journalists, but damn it, they are also lousy at other jobs that they didn’t even pretend to train to do.

It’s awesome to see people with zero life experience in any relevant field weighing in as if we shouldn’t just laugh in their pimply faces.

[….]

The media largely fell for the Imperial College Apocalypse Flu scenario, but then they wanted to. It’s more fun to be chronicling the Fall of Rome than Just Another Day in the Third Century A.D. under Emperor Elagabalus. The doomsayers ended up walking back their zillion dead to a few thousand dead, and the media just sort of ignored it because “Phew! Dodged a bullet!” doesn’t have the same resonance as “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE (and it’s Trump’s fault, not our ChiCom friends’ fault).”

[….]

Our media is garbage, full of clowns and dilettantes with no experience and less common sense. The media is now complaining that the pandemic is hurting its industry badly and that some of the media may go under because of the Woking Pneumonia.

Read it all because we all need a good laugh these days!

Why is the Daily Caller Shilling for the Refugee Industry?

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 3 Comments

To readers at ‘Frauds and Crooks:’  Some days I just run out of time to write at both Refugee Resettlement Watch and at ‘Frauds and Crooks.’  This is one such day.

Tucker Carlson founded the Daily Caller in 2010

I spent several hours this morning writing this post at RRW and hope you will go there to see it because I can reach more potential readers here now than at RRW.

When WordPressdotcom took RRW down I lost my subscribers which numbered around 5,000 and so far have only recovered a few hundred of them (I know it takes time!).

Here is today’s post at RRW, I hope you will go read it.

It is frustrating to see that a conservative publication like the Daily Caller knows so little about the US Refugee Admissions Program.  The reporter is very young, but gee where are the editors?

 

 

Moving!

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 1 Comment

Update!  We are almost done, a few more additions/subtractions and glitches to find!

We are starting the process of moving‘Frauds and Crooks’ to a new secure hosting company. Hopefully all will go smoothly, but just in case some glitches occur, do not worry, we are not going away!

It is not clear yet, but we might not be able to move all followers and subscribers.  If you don’t get an e-mail notice in a couple of days, come back and see if posting has resumed.

In the meantime visit RRW by clicking here.

Sorry for any inconvenience, but this is a necessary move!

Ann Corcoran