Barcelona report.




A suspicious absence of the word "immigrant."

The totalitarian purge of wrong thinkers continues:

In the past few days alone:

Both Red Ice servers were hacked, as were the site owners’ Twitter accounts, and still have not recovered.
VDare, AltRight.com, and AmRen were bounced from PayPal.
VDare’s conference next April has been shut down by the venue.
TRS was taken down by their webhosting company, but got a new host and were back online in 3 hours.
Mike Enoch was banned for the fourth time from Twitter.
KickStarter, GoFundMe, and IndieGoGo have all vowed to shut down campaigns related to White Nationalist concerns.
Pax Dickinson’s Twitter has been shut down.
Hatreon is offline.
PolNewsForever’s Twitter has been shut down.
The Daily Stormer has been targeted with massive DDOS attacks.
The Daily Stormer domain registration was dropped by GoDaddy, transferred to Google, and then seized by Google.
The Daily Stormer discord server has been shut down.
The Altright.com discord server has been shut down.
Vanguard America’s WordPress and Facebook accounts have been shut down.
Spotify has removed 27 “hate” bands as defined by the SPLC.
GoFundMe has taken down campaigns to help James Fields.
72 books on WWII revisionism have been banned by Amazon https://www.darkmoon.me/…/complete-list-of-books-banned-by…/
RootBocks has been taken down by its hosting company, but is back online.
Xurious has been removed from Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
Daniel Friberg and Christopher Dulny, both Swedes, have been barred from entering the United States because of their presence at Unite the Right.
Lauren Southern’s Patreon account has been taken down.
Lauren Southern’s Instagram has been taken down, but is now back up.
NPI’s Paypal account has been shut down.
Two upcoming speeches by Richard Spencer have been canceled.
Identity Europa’s PayPal has been shut down.
Christopher Cantwell’s Facebook, PayPal, and website are gone.
Weev’s LinkedIn account has been shut down.
The Paranormies and other podcasts have been kicked off of Soundcloud.
YouTube had demonitized controversial videos, making it impossible for dissident video bloggers to make a living from their work.
Airbnb combed through the social media of people with Charlottesville-area registrations on Unite the Right weekend, and canceled the reservations and accounts of Unite the Right attendees
Uber has cancelled Baked Alaska’s and James Allsup’s accounts.
Squarespace is dropping multiple Right-wing sites.
Toronto free speech event with Faith Goldy, Jordan Peterson & Gad Saad has been cancelled.

https://www.counter-currents.com/2017/08/counter-currents-under-attack-2/

> The totalitarian purge
> wrong thinkers continues:
>
> In the past few days alone:

[1.] Too many colons in a row.

[2.] Not the kind of judgment we ought entertain from a self-confessed, and desperately presumptuous, racist.

The tweetstorm is a spectacularly poor venue for information, but we take it where we find it, so let's hit the road.

> Too many colons in a row.

:::::::::::

Editing punctuation has a very low ROI.

> Not the kind of judgment we ought entertain

I'm sure Amy's readers are intelligent enough to make their own judgment.

> racist

You're virtue signalling - see, I'm not racist! Pathetic.

Amy, here is the EFF describing why it is wrong for Google and GoDaddy to take down DNS registration and for Cloudflare to stop proxying for the Daily Stormer.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-future-free-expression

My summary: it's not a simple matter of a company's 1A rights when they exist to provide a critical, irreplaceable resource in the Internet architecture, when the companies wield so much power to broadly censor so much of the internet.

Today Cloudflare killed ghostgunner.net a site that seems to provide:

1. A very cool "home" CNC machine
2. That machine designed to create AR-15 "receivers"

It seems the site itself is very controversial and the guy behind it is very very controversial, but the site seems to have no hate speech or anything like it anywhere on it, and if the machine is illegal, a judge's order should be required to shut it down.

@Snoopy,

And I wonder.. This looks awfully coordinated between tech companies and the media.

Will this bite them eventually?

Nah.

They're pretty cozy with politicians all over the world these days. They might pretend to fight the establishment by doing the opposite of what Trump says, but over Europe and China, I wouldn't be surprised at all the governments don't even need a court order to unlock and decrypt a smartphone.

Update on the "Cloudflare takedown of ghostgunner", Cloudflare says (paraphrase)

a) it's not true
b) the site being removed from Cloudflare's protection was the result of the site moving itself to godaddy months ago [looks to be around April]
c) hey come on back, no probs

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/898606829994876930

Time to make DNS services a public utility?

Note to self: remove the google dns servers from my resolv.conf file. They are...unreliable.

The needful bosom of the Trump voter pulses in spasms of pride.

> You're virtue signalling

No, it's actual virtue.

You little darlings are in the mood for a conspiracy, arncha? Well, go sick with this.... You are precisely aligned to the idiocies of our age:

Presumably, this is not explained by the implicit bias of the solar system. It is a matter of population density, and more specifically geographic variations in population density by race, for which the sun and the moon cannot be held responsible. Still....

As always, with PinkNews, it's better to head straight -Ha!- to the comments

A Google engineer who was sacked for a sexist blog post has claimed that being conservative now is like being gay in the 1950s.

The claim comes from James Damore, who has identified himself as the software engineer who was sacked from Google this month after sending an unsolicited memo to all staff arguing that women are biologically ‘unsuited’ to work in the tech industry.

In an interview with Business Insider, Mr Damore claimed that “anyone with a dissenting view can’t even express themselves”.

He added: “Really, it’s like being gay in the 1950s. These conservatives have to stay in the closet and have to mask who they really are.
“And that’s a huge problem because there’s open discrimination against anyone who comes out of closet as a conservative.”

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/08/18/sacked-google-engineer-claims-being-conservative-is-like-being-gay-in-the-1950s/

It's disappointing to see so many idiots laugh at Damore for comparing being conservative at Google to being gay in the 50s.

One common idiot attack is that Alan Turing was chemically castrated.

So apparently for our heroes on the internet, the bar for being able to suggest discrimination for political views is now chemical castration.

Even Popehat retweeted this tweet:

https://twitter.com/AHosselet/status/898326437312069632

Alan Turing, well-known and hugely influential computer scientist, was forcibly chemically castrated for being gay in the 50's.

In the interview he is being criticized for, Damore never compares himself to Turing, and says only:

> James Damore: Obviously, no one should feel attacked. I was simply trying to fix the culture in many ways. And really help a lot of people who are currently marginalized at Google by pointing out these huge biases that we have in this monolithic culture where anyone with a dissenting view can’t even express themselves. Really, it’s like being gay in the 1950s. These conservatives have to stay in the closet and have to mask who they really are. And that’s a huge problem because there’s open discrimination against anyone who comes out of closet as a conservative.

And there is lots of evidence that in tech, and in academia, what Damore says is exactly accurate.

Others at Google have backed that up.

And the Google SocJus absolutely brags of having blacklists and refusing to work with people whose political views they dislike.

What the hell is Popehat doing retweeting that nonsense?

> Time to make DNS services a public utility?

Well I R A Darth Aggie, I think it's a strong reason to support strict net neutrality and even go back to regulating providers of critical infrastructure as common carriers.

I understand that hosting a site can be considered to be speech but I don't see how providing DNS service is more protected speech than writing a message on a cake.

Wait, people have lost their jobs for even less than this

https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/898605843305943040

> it's actual virtue.

LOL. You don't know what "virtue" means.

"I think it's a strong reason to support strict net neutrality and even go back to regulating providers of critical infrastructure as common carriers."

If we're going to do that, we need to do it all the way. Treat ISPs, registrars, etc., exactly like phone companies. That means that they cannot refuse traffic from anyone who pays for service. It also means that they bear no responsibility whatsoever for whatever traffic they carry. They cannot be made to censor undesirable political content, or enforce copyrights for Hollywood studios, or tattle on customers who are using encryption. It also means law enforcement gets no access whatsoever to the inside of the system until they show up with a proper warrant.

The problem with the previous "net neutrality" proposals was that they were half-assed, restricted freedoms rather than protecting them, and were chock-full of carve-outs and special favors. Propose a real, all-the-way common carrier status for Internet utilities, and I might get behind it. I would at least give it serious consideration.

> If we're going to do that, we need to do it all the way. Treat ISPs, registrars, etc., exactly like phone companies. ...

Yes, I am for this. If you are operating a DNS registrar or other critical pieces, you must provide service to all customers up until a court tells you not to.

I'm willing to believe that's orthogonal to other issues of net neutrality, and even that it's more fundamental than the other issues.

As a point of information, Pax Dickinson, who is both a jerk and not a jerk, looked into setting up a domain registrar and found that the minimum cost is about $500K, which comes to something like $1K in hardware costs and $499K in salaries, legal costs, office costs etc., as the powers that be demand (and I think somewhat reasonably) a certain level of sophistication in the business plan and the to be created business. The point being that these are not services that are reproducible by some hacker for little cost in a basement, these are critical services that either cannot be replaced at all, or are prohibitively expensive, making our free speech subject to and lower priority than Google's "free speech".