They're about to lose their DNS host, it seems. So, ya

only place we can have free speech is gone

They have until tomorrow at 6pm MST to find a new host

they probably won't

_"GetOnGab @ 127.0.0.1 - where you don't need a DNS entry, just an IP address."_ RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP

I didn't realize Gab was ever alive

Gab was doing pretty well

A ton of Brazilians got on it

They got like $10 million in crowdfunding, or somesuch. They have tons of money

i sure hope that 10 million can do something.

is a web host that difficult to start up? with that cash and talent, i don't see why they couldn't just be a host themselves

Yes, a DNS service is ungodly expensive.

$10M expensive? 🤔

triple, minimum.

You basically need to buy an entire backbone's worth of infrastructure

Closer to 10x @Asatru Artist - MD

oof

its pretty disheartening that these megacorps can destroy free speech like this

The "guys" who got in the game in the early 90's are running a serious racket on DNS hosting across the internet backbone(s). You have to duplicate everything they've done both electronically and physically with hardlines to get it all to "work" together.

in a blink of an eye

@Phillip Wiglesworth - FL additionally new DNS services cannot be created, due to recent legistlation, if memory serves.

Only the purchase and transfer of existing DNS registrars, no?

I don't even want to try to imagine it. I just know how much of an issue it was back then when we complained about it, and the predictions obviously came true.

@Papa Pizzagate “if you don’t like the rules, just create your own platform”

RIP freedom.

There's tens of thousands of servers in just the USA alone that redirect domain names to a set few DNS hosts, which then redirect IP traffic to IP's based on what those domain names are registered to. Creating a new DNS host would be 100x the daunting task that "Y2K" created...for those of you familiar with that insanity we dealt with in the late 90's

perhaps 10000x

b/c the internet has grown exponentially since then

Theoretically, the Right could have a pure FOS platform if they 1.owned their own Domain Registrar 2. owned their own bank or credit union, but even then CC companies (not processors, companies) could refuse to work with them.

Notably, a few months ago Robert Spencer (not Richard) of ShariaWatch was denied CC processing through either Discover or Mastercard.

https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/1056561979169607682?s=20

In other words: "The Right" would have to create an entirely new financial backbone which operates on an entirely separate global internet backbone, recognized by every country of the world. It's just not possible with any amount of money thrown at it, so long as politics and media reject it

This sort of thing should be opening people's eyes to the dangers of globalism, btw.

@Papa Pizzagate Yeah, but, and not to wax nihilistic here, what good does it do to found all of the entities necessary for a FoS platform if there are anti-discrimination laws in the place that *guarantee* that parties likely to subvert it, too, will inevitably find their way into management...? 😑

Just moaning to moan. Obviously, something does have to be done.

What if we just make our own internet?

@Logan it's honestly really weird how the magabomber, the shooting, Gab shut down happened all in the same week leading up to the midterms. It's extremely sketchy.

🤔

I think that would really alleviate all the issues we see tbh

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Especially since gab was doing well with the support for bolsonaro and all that.

Anyways...this DNS host discussion just reminds me of the theories about how the USA will come to a screeching halt: when we're attacked electronically by just merely taking down the few DNS hosting services.

I doubt it would be that easy though

tbh

I went to the air force recruiter a couple weeks ago and they are really pushing for cyber people

everything is connected to the internet, and very few people nowadays know how to use it without typing a domain name. They don't even know about how to use the internet by merely typing IP addresses.

Hey guys . . I have an idea . . What if we eventually moved AWAY from the dependency of the internet and had on-the-ground connections so strong that we worried less and less about our platforms being broken? @Bjorn - MD @Phillip Wiglesworth - FL

I don't really know anything about any of it, I just feel like it's not going to be super easy or fast for that to happen.

Stop dividing the movement bro

@The Morrígan

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>advocates irl frens

>divides movement

🤔

@Phillip Wiglesworth - FL TOR doesn't have DNS problems. It also can't be DDOSed. I think one of the reasons the globalists mock TOR is that it is actually very effective technology for connecting people in a way that can't be taken down.

Bro. A lot of the activism that I've done was done in a car . . Traveling and meeting people face to face. It was small few that created a massive. . Even international web of connections. @Trashboat

Bruh that was sarcasm

I even added a pepe

smh

Oh. Hahahaha

Ok. Pepe makes it all better.

Thanks pepe.

👍

I think a nice idea for our members would be to focus on their personal "IE travel savings" . . .

Save a few bucks every paycheck

^

And for the rich members to pay for my plane tickets so I can go to every rally.

Yeah and for rich people to pay for my bills

@Selma we often do raise travel funds actually

YOU DO?

@Selma yes

Not everyone can be funded

Preference usually goes to people who are closer

But sometimes partial subsidies as well

Saving money is how I've survived everything. You can do it. I promise. @Selma

I'm saving for nursing school

: (

@Trashboat the sarcasm comes off as passive aggressive, please knock it off

Deal

Closer isn’t always cheaper. There’s a round trip ticket from BWI to Denver under $200, wish I could go

I have an annoying school project due shortly after DTR otherwise I'd go, I hope to make the next national event

I just wonder if people would make an "IE travel savings" an actual priority. . . How nice that would be? It would lead to something far more than just a plane ticket.

@Valaska that guy is definitely not mad

@Valaska So stunning and brave!

How very peaceful of him. He's not violent at all.

I was just thinking... that waxy paper can’t be healthy

Hahaha

He assumes that he got them all, I bet he didn't

He didn't

Bone apple teeth

No need to rile that guy up

I guess you just gotta put up even more 🙃

what a horrible person

@Valaska wow, what a loser

He only took down two

Just lol

Roasted!!

identity Evropa NAZIS DESTROYED by Jewish patriot!

yeah Nemets I was aware that was a huge effort

with coordination. but idk who it is