Matt Mullenweg’s Ministry of Truth

Sandy Hook Research Tossed Down Memory Hole

By James F. Tracy
(Updated 8/19/18)

The individual who oversaw an across-the-board, content-specific evisceration of WordPress.com-hosted websites is none other than Matt Mullenweg, the 34-year old chief executive of Automattic Inc. and creator of WordPress.com. A supporter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and purported advocate of “Free Speech” and “Open Source” technology, Mr. Mullenweg caved to a New York Times story highlighting the alleged plight of individuals related to the dubious Sandy Hook mass shooting event.

WordPress.com and former Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, who on August 14 abruptly pulled the plug on numerous WordPress.com client websites. Image Credit: Wikipedia

Mullenweg promotes himself and his companies as alternatives to the “tech giants” and “big platforms” such as Google and Amazon. Yet if the world’s super-wealthy blog czar ever did have the personal integrity and zeal to defend the right of expression and open source philosophy via his enterprises, his recent management appointments and the flagrant censorship of his WordPress clients below indicate that these have clearly been forgotten.

OffGuardian
(August 15, 2018)

Just a week or so after Spotify, Google, Apple and Facebook made the curiously synchronized move to kick Alex Jones and InfoWars off their platforms, and just days after Facebook shut down Venezuelan news network TeleSur’s facebook page (for the second time), the war on the free internet has opened up another front.

Small independent blogs are being shut down, seemingly without reason and certainly without explanation.

AmericanEveryman.com has been closed without notice or warning, according to the blog’s owner Scott Creighton. Allegedly for violating WordPress’ “terms of service”, although they have apparently been entirely vague about how.

#censorshipisreal @21wire @Jay_D007 (https://t.co/cCbWgsRyNP)@willyloman1 (https://t.co/QHT2cnvWC8)
—@wordpress @wordpressdotcom @wpdiscover @automattic
—@willyloman1 & @jay_d007 has NOT violated the Terms of Service, and the bans are absolutely unfair because of this!

— Abdul Hussain (Abdul-Kareem Hu) • v.gd/cdawg (@abzhuofficial) August 15, 2018

Other such blogs – fellowshipofminds.com and jaysanalysis.com – have suffered the exact same fate, on the exact dame day. There is undeniably a push to silence dissent and purge it from the internet. There may well be dozens – even hundreds – of other examples.

No, there are real targeted take-downs happening now. Our friend @Jay_D007 website removed by host. Wake up people. Censorship is real…. pic.twitter.com/5AdL95B1q4

— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) August 14, 2018