John Richardson’s blog (formerly here) has been taken down by Google. He announced it via twitter here.
This is the danger for anyone who doesn’t own their platform. I happen to have plenty of space here if anyone wants to register a domain. Or anyone who gets googled can publish here.
I posted this on another site earlier this afternoon:
“It’s called “Battle-space Preparation.” The Left is prepping the battlefield (and it is a Battle) for 2020. They intend on taking power (NOT office) in November. Plan accordingly.”
Hmm. Yes, even after all this time, there’s still a little pot simmering on one of the back burners of my mind, and sometimes it whistles, quietly, “you should blog again”. And then I ponder hosting, etc. I would never use WordPress. I think Jekyll, or something like it. And then I think about all the other stuff I’m not getting around to.
Yeah, until we have a disagreement and you deplatform me!
I got off Blogger right after Google acquired them and now I run my own domain. But what’s to stop my webhost from deplatforming me? I guess I could host it locally, but I’d still need to have a third provider for DNS and a connection to the interwebs.
Ravenwood? Dear Lord! I remember that blog. Uh, but not where it went. Now I’m remembering some other old-school folks too. The Spoons Experience? Smoke My Gun? Where the heck did everybody go? (Same place I went?)
August 7th, 2019 at 7:16 pm
I posted this on another site earlier this afternoon:
“It’s called “Battle-space Preparation.” The Left is prepping the battlefield (and it is a Battle) for 2020. They intend on taking power (NOT office) in November. Plan accordingly.”
August 7th, 2019 at 10:54 pm
Hmm. Yes, even after all this time, there’s still a little pot simmering on one of the back burners of my mind, and sometimes it whistles, quietly, “you should blog again”. And then I ponder hosting, etc. I would never use WordPress. I think Jekyll, or something like it. And then I think about all the other stuff I’m not getting around to.
In re. deplatforming, this is part of the plan, discussed at length: https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives/ — actually, more acurately, “weaponizing” the platforms, which of course means denying them to the opposition.
Anyways, I’ll keep your offer in mind.
August 8th, 2019 at 7:35 am
Yeah, until we have a disagreement and you deplatform me!
I got off Blogger right after Google acquired them and now I run my own domain. But what’s to stop my webhost from deplatforming me? I guess I could host it locally, but I’d still need to have a third provider for DNS and a connection to the interwebs.
August 8th, 2019 at 9:56 pm
Ravenwood? Dear Lord! I remember that blog. Uh, but not where it went. Now I’m remembering some other old-school folks too. The Spoons Experience? Smoke My Gun? Where the heck did everybody go? (Same place I went?)
August 8th, 2019 at 10:48 pm
And, this just in, which confirms for me my lost affection for WordPress:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-team-working-on-daring-plan-to-forcibly-update-old-websites/
Exactly how they plan to accomplish this, I have no idea.
August 10th, 2019 at 1:39 pm
He is back up with the usual vague BS explanation from Google.