AbovetopSecret forum is censoring any mention of Conspiracies.Win. Been a member of ATS for over a decade and made a post advertising the standup of this .win site. ATS went up for sale recently and they are in the process of closing negotiations with AT&T(not formally announced yet). Mods who were always moderate politics wise are now showing the evident future of what members should expect. The left has gobbled up another of the bastions if free speech I Guess... makes this site that much more important. I urge others to spread the word to ATS any way you can. I’ve already been threatened with a ban via a private message from the moderators there.
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Sounds like ATS was absorbed by the usual suspects involved in censorship.
Par for the course.
Good thing is that (for now, at least) the internet routes around censorship. This has happened since the dig days. Once that site turned to shit, everyone went to reddit. Now that reddit has turned to shit, we are here or in the chans (I suppose some us never really left the chans tho, lol).
ATS was compromised years ago.
Fuck ATS. ATS was never a "bastion of free speech".
I was a long time member there. They locked my account because I denied the moon landing. A dipshit mod I was arguing with in the moon landing thread said via PM he'll unlock it if I admit I was wrong. I told him to go fuck himself and quit the forum.
Reason: I remembered that another user also went through the same ordeal, i.e., he was locked out and was asked to admit he was wrong. But after he admitted he was "wrong" the mod banned him. Absolute scumbag move.
Another thing I remember about ATS was that there was a certain clique of members (mods and users) who'd start fights with users in their threads and get their posts removed, their threads locked and the users warned or banned.
I can definitely agree there are cliques of posters who like to throw their weight around due to their join dates and mass amounts of posts. But if anything the mod I contacted was obviously upset that I questioned him or even dared spark controversy in a thread. Really pathetic but often a trait of people willing to moderate the remanence of the old VB bulletin forums. Bodybuilding.com and it’s MISC forum is another of the old forums still around but with a bit more lenience.
Hahaha. You have listed head mod here and at Reddit Axo's favorite MO. In fact he will post a topic as a honeypot, been dissent, delete the topic, post it again, been dissent, delete the topic, river repay until he is gets mostly replies agreeing with him.
Check out openmodlogs.xyz to see this in action.
To hell with ATS. Annie is a total leftist retard, AugustusMasonicus needs his ass beat, DontTreadOnMe (mod bitch) is a over zealous asshole, willtell is a punk, tony Mcguire is a complete moron, gortex is a brit who needs a rope, Southern Guardian is a leftist retard P.O.S! I hope the place fails and dies. There is only a handful of members and it's one big echo chamber there anymore.
I don't know if it's firefox or some other program, but opening .win links can be a pain sometimes. I just got in the habit of copying the .win link, opening a new tab and paste&go.
This political shit, restricting information flow because of ideology, is well past being some messed-up bullshit.
Guess one of us is gonna have to pull up our big girl panties and invent a new internet. I'm not free until Tuesday, so if any of ya'll want an new internet before then, best go on an' get a wiggle on the DIY :)
srsly, tho, besides meshnet type comms, what WOULD be the next communication step?
That website kinda sucked anyway lol, but can't blame em for not wanting other websites advertised over there
ATS and GLP were compromised a long time ago, but certainly I’ve seen some good research from there before. It would be cool if any vets of those forums had “best of” posts to back up here, but I never browsed enough to collect that kind of thing.
It’s still weird for a conspiracy forum to not allow mention of other conspiracy forums IMO
I followed up with a moderator and went back and forth, they said because I was diverting traffic/users that it was against the T&C. But I called them out Because that’s simply not a real rule, I think the larger issue was be spilling the beans on the buyout (Only the owners of ATS are suppose to know who’s purchasing the site content) that AT&T/Warner media were the ones in contract negotiations. Regardless I’ll have to tread lightly with my posts there. sucks because I’ve heard that they (Warner Media and other child companies of AT&T) will be leveraging user Generated content to create new IPs/used to do AI machine learning, and will own the intellectual property rights. Users will have 0 claim to any profits made from their posts/content... it’s almost 20 years of material being absorbed. Crazy stuff
I used to go on GLP to see crazy stories and breaking news