Tag: censorship

Revealing Truth Forbidden Under Punishment of Law

Judge Overseeing Case to Release Covenant Killer Manifesto Warns of Contempt If Parties ‘Usurp’ Sealed Materials [More]

What filthy politics must be in play for this to even be an issue on as story of such public importance that’s being exploited to ratchet down on our rights?

If I had the information, I’d defy this robed tyrant in an instant and protect my sources to the end.

[Via bondmen]

And It Continues?

Comment left under a post:

It would seem that your site has disappeared from my web browser. Had to go a very circuitous route to find you today. Thought I might have been in the public library in Cleveland, where your site is blocked by the libraries there………… Johny Gee

This after my weekend adventure?

I’ll check it out when I get better from this cold that I came down with. Hudson’s library is part of the CleveNet system, and if I can’t access it I may have a First Amendment claim.

Special Circumstances Necessitate Saturday Post

I typically don’t post here on weekends because I’m working on articles, behind-the-scenes sausage-making, and spending time in pursuit of happiness with my family, but something came up I thought I need to address immediately, plus the LaPierre story broke after I’d knocked off work yesterday.

Danger, Will Robinson?

I’ve talked before about how this blog and advocacy media are really the only ways I have of sharing links to my articles (aside from asking readers, which has for the most part been historically unreliable). I hope regulars here will agree they get information and insights you won’t get from the “real reporters” who dominate public perceptions (otherwise, why keep coming back?). So I was surprised (and more than a little p!$$ed) to see this reply to my X announcement about my latest AmmoLand article on California Democrat gun-grabbers harassing the “law-abiding” while their criminal constituents get another pass:

Like the man asked, WTF?

I use both Malwarebytes and Webroot, and have never had a problem with AmmoLand (albeit some readers who haven’t figured out ad blockers are prone to grouse about the price of “free”). So I clicked the Bitly link to see what the grievance was, and the only thing that makes “sense” is:

The link may have been reported to Bitly by a member of the public.

That’s it? And I don’t suppose you’re going to tell us who snitched? It’s not like I haven’t had stuff suppressed based on troll complaints before.

Without defining an issue and proving it, URL shortening service and link management platform Bitly is willing to disparage reputations and cast suspicion and fear about visiting websites just on some anonymous person with an unknown agenda’s say-so…?

So is AmmoLand a risky place to go? Not according to Google’s Safe Browsing check (WoG comes up clean as well):

And drive away business? That seems actionable.

So what might be relevant to know about Bitly in trying to untangle this attack suppressing my work? Maybe it’s not about ideology at all?

The link they’re deeming unsafe, with the link shortener beginning “go.shr.lc,” uses Shareaholic (“300,000+ forward-thinking businesses of all sizes rely on our software”), a COMPETITOR of Bitly.

And this may or may not mean something, but the Bitly CEO Toby Gabriner is based in San Francisco. Open Secrets shows he has donated to two candidates over the years, Josh Harder and Catherine Cortez Masto, both Democrats, and if you look at their links, both extremist gun-grabbers advancing Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown agenda.

Now it’s back to X to try to undo the damage.

UPDATE

We are working with Bitly to get these linked unblocked ASAP. [More]

I hope that means you’re going to sue their @$$es if they don’t issue a public apology for reputation damages and compensate for any monetary damages you can determine they’ve caused you and your 300,00 customers by scaring readers away from their content.

Wayne’s World

Former NRA chief Wayne LaPierre misspent gun rights group’s money and owes more than $4M, jury finds [More]

Some are saying being able to put all the blame on Wayne will now work in the Association’s favor in terms of all being forgiven and people coming back.

Not until the rubber stamp board and complicit top officers are replaced.

I’ve been asked to endorse the four “bullet vote” candidates. My response:

Only if they answer my questionnaire correctly.

Crickets. That was two-and-a-half weeks ago.

And this was long before that.

We’re the Only Ones Nonspecific Enough

Student accused of Ontario school shooting plot found support for extremism online, police say… Ramirez declined to identify those internet sites. “We do not want to go into more specifics as we do not want copycats going to those sites or giving those sites attention and cyber traffic,” she said. [More]

Criminals might abuse it so we have to ban it for everybody? Where have we heard that before?

[Via bondmen]

Lies of Omission

Responding to my Bill of Rights Day post, War on Guns Correspondent Antigone sends two links:

  • Holiday Today figured the appropriate image to accompany their article was multicultural fists and didn’t feel the Second Amendment was worth mentioning.
  • It looks like they sourced their piece from the government’s U.S. Courts website. A “Students Sound Off about the Bill of Rights” video posted there does very briefly mention 2A, first with an ignorant young gelding who declares it “is no longer relevant to members of the general public and should only apply to a professional military.” He’s countered by a girl whose only reason for supporting it is “…because I’m a member of the NRA.”

Related UPDATE

Don’t forget the Preamble!

[Via bondmen]

He’s Ba-ack…

Elon Musk reinstates Alex Jones’ on X [More]

And the DSM goes spittle-flecked wild…

I know some of you think he’s a controlled opposition false influencer. That was Mike’s opinion.

Perhaps. But when I was on (video taken down, natch), I found his questions interesting and fair and appreciated the opportunity to reach a much wider audience–when he would let me get a word in edgewise.

Adding Fuel to the Fire

New York AG Tells Platforms to Disclose What They Are Doing About “Calls for Violence and Other Materials That May Incite Violence” [More]

That seems like an excellent way to encourage responses to state actors initiating violence.

Can you imagine Letitia James with unchecked power?

[Via Michael G]

‘Community Standards’ Strike Again

This was waiting for me this morning on Facebook:

Again…? And with the not-so-veiled threat to banish me forever…?

Looks like their AI is going full tilt to enforce GIGO. This is what must be suppressed.

Mustn’t allow anything to cast doubt on the directed narrative… like the truth.

I wonder how long it will be before Google removes it from Blogger… along with everything else I’ve posted. Don’t forget what prompted this new incarnation of WoG.

They evidently find voluntary humanitarian relief by believers in the Constitution goes against everything they stand for.

William Tell Overture

Swiss writer who called journalist ‘fat lesbian’ sentenced to 60 days in prison, LGBTQ groups applaud decision [More]

Latter-day Swiss betray their forebears and once more bow to the tyrant’s cap.

It’s gone from civil rights to civil rule. At least when it all blows up we’ll know “progressives” side with the totalitarians.

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word ‘Abridging’ Is

The multinational software company Oracle is cutting ties with the Global Disinformation Index, a State Department-funded group that the Washington Examiner revealed has been secretly blacklisting conservative media outlets. [More]

That DOJ hasn’t slapped this down hard from the outset is all I need to see to know what we’re dealing with.

[Via Michael G]

Mystery Solved


Remember the reason I left Blogspot and started this site?

I have an old gmail account I never use and found Google’s reply in there:

Your post titled “Further Adventures in Baselessness” was flagged to us for review. We have determined that it violates our guidelines and have unpublished the URL http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2022/03/further-adventures-in-baselessness.html, making it unavailable to blog readers.

In other words, some twitching leftist saboteur snitched me out just to get me censored and Google encourages that. It’s not like that surprises me, but I did want to just create a record of it.

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