Yeah, the Gatekeepers get all manner of bent out of shape and out of sorts when you say things they don't like... especially if those things are true, and they can't legitimately come up with a counter-argument.
In my case, when WordPress banned our blog and memory-holed it, I fought back... but not on their turf. That would have been picking a losing battle. Instead, what I did was write an entire book about the incidents surrounding the WordPress blog, throwing the information out into the public sphere anyhow. I released the book for free as a download at several different venues so that if one got taken down, the rest would still be available.
Some of those venues HAVE gone down in the interim, but for other reasons. No one ever got it successfully taken down on account of the book. It was available at ATS until ATS went down. It's still available at ScribD. There was also a torrent for it if everything else failed, but I've not checked to see if the torrent was still alive in several years now.
The title of the book is "The Hoax Heard Round the World".
An interesting turn of events was that the miscreants accused us of "Google bombing" them after the book release, and in their efforts to explain "Google bombs", actually Google-bombed themselves, which actually promoted the book they were trying to bury, and shot themselves right in the foot thereby. Some folks are just too damned dumb to live.
"You can't stop the signal, Mal"... especially if you piss the wrong person off. They'll release it anyway, but just move the release to venues beyond your control.
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In my case, when WordPress banned our blog and memory-holed it, I fought back... but not on their turf. That would have been picking a losing battle. Instead, what I did was write an entire book about the incidents surrounding the WordPress blog, throwing the information out into the public sphere anyhow. I released the book for free as a download at several different venues so that if one got taken down, the rest would still be available.
Some of those venues HAVE gone down in the interim, but for other reasons. No one ever got it successfully taken down on account of the book. It was available at ATS until ATS went down. It's still available at ScribD. There was also a torrent for it if everything else failed, but I've not checked to see if the torrent was still alive in several years now.
The title of the book is "The Hoax Heard Round the World".
An interesting turn of events was that the miscreants accused us of "Google bombing" them after the book release, and in their efforts to explain "Google bombs", actually Google-bombed themselves, which actually promoted the book they were trying to bury, and shot themselves right in the foot thereby. Some folks are just too damned dumb to live.
"You can't stop the signal, Mal"... especially if you piss the wrong person off. They'll release it anyway, but just move the release to venues beyond your control.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake