Tag: Free speech

Twitter Sends Me a Notice: They Investigate a German’s Complaint About My Post Yesterday

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 8 Comments

If you missed it, that post where I reported on an interview with retired General Thomas McInerney who called the election heist we have been witnessing a treasonous act, is here.

Imagine my surprise to get this notice (below) from Twitter.  And, imagine my further surprise to learn that someone in Germany can use a German law to silence my speech!

Here is a screenshot.  I am assuming this is legitimate as the link in the e-mail takes you to a Twitter page, here.

 

Oh joy, Twitter ruled in my favor….

But, what the heck is the Network Enforcement Act?

It is a controversial GERMAN law passed in 2017!

Reporters Without Borders and other critics spoke of a “rush job” that “could massively damage the basic right to freedom of the press and freedom of expression“.

So Germans can complain to Twitter about something I, an American citizen, is saying about an American election! 

I wonder if Twitter asks the complainer for proof of German residency or citizenship?

By the way, I know that Twitter has messed with my account @RefugeeWatcher there for a very long time, so I am not worrying about gathering more followers, nor do I tweet much, but it is, for now, a very handy place to get real time news on the election fraud such as the President’s tweet about the Hannity interview in my previous post.

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!  

Media Matters Does What They Think is Major Hit Piece on Delaware Senate Candidate

~ Ann Corcoran

But, their hysterical, vitriolic piece is a treasure trove of information that many of you will find useful.

Republican Senate Candidate Lauren Witzke wants a MORATORIUM on immigration to America!

Perhaps the most valuable reason for you to read their screed against the remarkable Lauren Witzke is so you know where you might find information on who the Hard Left/Marxists hate the most.

It looks like the news site VDARE is at the top of their list.

Someone asked me yesterday about why anyone would sign up for news alerts from the likes of CAIR (for example) or Media Matters, and of course it is because you must know about the enemy and what they are doing and saying.

So here is Media Matters going after a long-shot Senate candidate in Joe Biden’s Delaware linking her to their most feared boogeymen—white nationalists.

Since calling someone a “racist” is losing its power, the Left has settled on “white nationalist” as the next best epithet that could cause good/weak people (they hope) to run in horror.

GOP-backed Senate candidate Lauren Witzke frequently shares content from white nationalist site VDare

 

U.S. Senate candidate Lauren Witzke has frequently shared content from VDare, a leading white nationalist site that also pushes anti-Semitism. Witzke, a QAnon supporter who also has the backing of the Delaware Republican Party, has additionally twice thanked anti-Semitic commentator Faith Goldy for supporting her campaign.

Witzke is a Republican who is running a longshot campaign against Democratic incumbent Sen. Chris Coons. She has expressed support for QAnon and recently defended the conspiracy theory as “just a bunch of people who want pedophiles held accountable and from what I understand it’s absolutely harmless.” In reality, the conspiracy theory has been repeatedly linked to acts of violence and the FBI has labeled it a potential domestic terror threat.

This is what the Soros-backed Media Matters is most afraid of!

One of Witzke’s main policy plans is “a full 10-year moratorium on all immigration,” a proposal that VDaresupports.

VDare is a white nationalist site that heavily attacks immigrants. The Southern Poverty Law Center states that it “regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites.”

VDare publishes posts that carry such headlines as: “One Problem With These Hispanic Immigrants Is Their Disgusting Behavior,” “Indians Aren’t That Intelligent (On Average),” “Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Hispanic Immigrants Taking Over FBI’s Ten Most Wanted,” “America Does Not Need ANY Immigrants From Africa,” and “Roll Over, JIHAD—There’s Also HIJRA, Muslim Conquest By Immigration.”

Continue reading here and add VDARE to your regular reading list!  Big tech has been going nuts to block VDARE  from your view.

CAIR Sucks Up to Black Lives Matter

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 4 Comments

I know, nothing you didn’t already assume, but I’m posting this to encourage you to follow the opposition. Knowledge is power!

Sign up, as reader Bob did, and receive regular missives from those groups working to transform America, two prime examples being the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

As I have reported recently, there is tension between Arab/South Asian Muslims and blacks so the leadership at CAIR obviously determined that it needed to suck up to BLM.

NYT Opinion: White Muslims Must Face their Anti-Black Racism

 

See CAIR unfurl its banner over its Washington, DC headquarters:

This is a screenshot. Go here to see the story and video. https://www.cair.com/press_releases/watch-cair-marks-anniversary-of-george-floyds-killing-by-unveiling-black-lives-matter-banner-on-capitol-hill-headquarters-in-dc/

And now see them chortling over a couple of white scalps in California.

Here see Ibrahim Hooper cheer the removal of California school officials whose facebook posts offended them.

CAIR Central CA Welcomes School Officials’ Resignations after Bigoted Posts

(FRESNO, CA, 6/25/20) – The Central California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CC) today welcomed the recent resignations of two school officials after they posted bigoted content on their Facebook pages.

Fresno’s Central Unified School District trustee Richard Atkins came under fire for a bigoted Facebook post he shared last weekend. He posted,

“If you don’t Love the Country you live in, then go back to the country you or your ancestors came from. I’m SICK of this S***.”

He resigned Tuesday from his position.

Sara Wilkins had the nerve to say she was proud to be white.

At the beginning of this week, the private Facebook account of Sara Wilkins, the president of the Madera County Board of Education, shared an image of a Confederate flag and stated: “I am proud to be white.” The post also read, “I bet no one passes this on because they are scared of be called a racist.”

A change.org petition, “Sara Wilkins needs to step down, resign, or be fired,” gained more than 1,500 signatures.

The Madera County Superintendent of Schools announced Wilkins’ resignation Thursday. In a statement, CAIR-CC Outreach Director Sukaina Hussain said: “We welcome the resignations of these public officials after their disturbing posts.

You will find a ‘sign-up’ opportunity on CAIR’s website. It is extremely useful to know what they are doing.

It is about silencing you and making you fearful, an important first step in their goal to destroy our cherished American way of life.

What Does the Gruesome Murder of Dorothy Dow have to do with You? Nothing or Everything?

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 19 Comments

Leo Hohmann has been hitting the mark time after time lately and his post today is one of his best yet as far as I am concerned.

A high school football announcer expressed an opinion in a Facebook post about the murder of 83-year-old Dorothy Dow and he was fired from his job.

America at the crossroads: The silent majority vs. the advancing power of the mob

 

Take, for example, the case of Ray McKnight. He worked as an announcer for the Newnan High School football team in Newnan, Georgia, in ultra-conservative Coweta County. But he was fired over a Facebook post he made this past weekend that his employer deemed “controversial” and offensive, even hurtful, according to the Times-Herald.

What did McKnight say that was so horrible as to warrant his immediate termination?

He said that four people deserved to “hang” for beating and burning 83-year-old Dorothy “Dot” Dow in her Meriwether County home in 2016.”

 

I bet you know where this is going already, you don’t even need to see who is sitting in jail charged in the murder.

 

 

Hohmann continues….

History is littered with examples of folks hunkering down and waiting for a leader to rise up from the silent majority and protect them from the mob.

Please read it all and think about it.

Do you realize that as imperfect as Donald Trump is, because of the beating he takes daily from the mob (on the Left and yes, some on the Right), there will likely be no one person who will be able (or foolish enough) to try to protect us from the vicious mob.

Have we reached a point of no return?  Or, can we muster the strength to fight back now, before it really is too late?