AR15.com Deplatformed
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 10 months ago
I learned today at AR15.com was down, and currently if you go to their site you get their backup website.
Ammoland gives a little more detail.
AR15.com Backup Site [is now] Live, Switching to First Amendment Friendly Site Registrar On Monday, January 11, 2021, I received notice from our site registrar that AR15.com had violated their terms of service and that AR15.com would be shut down immediately. The registrar’s decision to de- platform AR15.com was final and no method to appeal was offered.
It remains unclear specifically what content allegedly violated the registrar’s terms of service. However, I am happy to report that we have found a new, First Amendment-friendly site registrar and we have begun the process of transitioning AR15.com to the new registrar. We expect the switchover to take up to 5 days. During that time, our famous “AR15.com” URL will not be usable. Once the switchover is complete, AR15.com will be fully restored to normal function. In the meantime, I welcome freedom lovers and firearm enthusiasts to visit us at our temporary URL: www.ar15-backup.com. We will post on the backup site when the normal AR15.com has been completely restored. ~ Juan Avila, President & Co-Founder, AR15.com.
I’m just keeping you posted. These are the initial shots over the bow. More to come.
Go Daddy (whomever that is) is responsible. I consider it to be an unwise decision.
On January 12, 2021 at 6:22 am, Pat Hines said:
Because a certain tribe, which I will not name on this blog, attacked Gab early on, Andrew Torba moved Gab to its own server system about three years ago. Mr. Torba anticipated what’s happening now. Mr. Torba tried to warn others that they were vulnerable to communists, far too many poo-poo’d that warning, to their current dismay.
I’ve been on Gab for four years now, I love it.
On January 12, 2021 at 7:37 am, Wes said:
I’ll respectfully disagree that these are shots across the bow, as in warning shots to stop a certain behavior. These are targeted rounds; the war is on. If you don’t think like them and are deemed ungovernable they want you gone.
In the internet tinkerer’s department, 2 primary name servers on the internet belong to Google (these translate English you type to network IP address). If you think they can’t tweak those to fail to resolve a name to a network think again. If you configure that little Wi-Fi router that connects to your ISP’s modem I would recommend changing:
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google’s) to use the OpenDNS servers of:
208.67.220.220
208.67.222.222
…or have a nerdy kid or friend do it for you, say thank you, and go back to cranking the lever on the Dillon.
On January 12, 2021 at 8:01 am, Fred said:
Deplatformed is an odd term, you see, it never will be your platform until every last commie is hunted down and feed to the woodchippers.
They day is coming when they will simply remove sites they don’t like from the DNS record. Poof, no more internet comms for you.
Your being herded.
On January 12, 2021 at 8:07 am, HempRopeAndStreetlight said:
Fred is right. The nephew is working on a “road-map” for when they nuke all the interweb’s road signs, as he explained it. Said he’s gonna give it to guys he trusts, let them figure out how ta spread it.
On January 12, 2021 at 8:54 am, June J said:
Ensure you have paper (preferable) or digital copies of all information that is necessary for your long term survival. All internet based information can be shut down or denied to you. DNS workarounds will only be viable until the communists see that the websites/information is still being accessed. After that a few keystrokes will simply erase the routes to badspeak sites.
On January 12, 2021 at 9:34 am, Fred said:
*yore
On January 12, 2021 at 9:58 am, Bill Sullivan said:
Fred- “you’re” is the contraction of “you are”.
On January 12, 2021 at 2:01 pm, Jimmy the Saint said:
Ahhh, Go Daddy, the company that used to run ads with a scantily clad Danica Patrick with promises of a porn-ish “If you want to see more, go to our website”, then changed to ultra-woke. Gotta hand it to ’em, they definitely go where the money seems to be.
On January 12, 2021 at 2:47 pm, Fred said:
parlor is moving to the same hoster as gab. Stoke of a pen, they’re gone.
You’re being herded.
On January 12, 2021 at 3:00 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@Fred,
No. Parler is going to the folks who USED to host Gab. Gab now has their own servers and infrastructure.
On January 12, 2021 at 3:44 pm, scott s. said:
A distributed blockchain model will probably be the solution. Even if you own your server, you are still dependent on specific connections.
On January 12, 2021 at 4:53 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@scott s.,
This. ^^^^
I expect this to go the way of BitTorrent servers scattered throughout the world in freer countries than the U.S.
On January 12, 2021 at 5:20 pm, Fred said:
@Herschel, ah, so they learned nothing and are making the same error? got it.
On January 12, 2021 at 5:24 pm, Herschel Smith said:
Fred,
I suspect their CEO is looking for a way to get back online quickly, and then possibly do what Gab did.
On January 13, 2021 at 1:33 am, tballard said:
Actually, Parler is using the same company that GAB currently uses for domain registration, except Parler is going to use their hosting services as well (which Gab does not). Hopefully, they will learn their lesson and eventually get their own servers, but my understanding is that they were being denied access to server equipment in the short time frame they had, so needed to go with a hosted service. It was a dumb move to host their site in enemy territory, in spite of all the warnings, and they paid the price.
On January 13, 2021 at 8:54 am, Frank said:
They are not “deplatformed”. AR15.com is up and working, it’s just you are using the wrong DNS service (Google, probably– and they are evil), and you can’t get to it.
Switch to OpenDNS and go about your business.
On January 13, 2021 at 8:56 am, Frank said:
…which you should have done years ago, but I digress. Whoever you are using now is tracking every single web page you visit, and selling that info. OpenDNS and 1.1.1.1 don’t do that, at least today.
Unless you are using a good VPN, you are vulnerable to that DNS monitoring and sale.
On January 13, 2021 at 9:52 am, Herschel Smith said:
@Frank,
It should be back up and working for everybody now. It was a web hosting issue. They’re apparently with a diff web hosting service now.
On January 13, 2021 at 11:59 am, ambigousfrog said:
You can own the servers and the hosting. Even if they worked around that, I suspect the red sympathizers own the backbone too. They could offshore the hosting I suppose, but again the fiber and traffic is controlled possibly by unfriendlies.