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

If you object to censorship, of any kind, please fill out a form on automattic.com and request that these blogs are reinstated.

Please support our friends who wish to do nothing but tell the truth. If enough of us make an appeal, they will listen.

…and if this website disappears, well, you know what happened.