On Sun, May 30, 2021, 2:51 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2021 14:38:38 -0400 Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
Juan, do you know anything about the fake-looking websites that replace the normal websites of controversial projects once they get well-known?
for instance?
I'm confused right now, no good links after my experiences, sorry. Here's a reasonable one: while i was volunteering with coal extraction resistance in west virginia some years ago, I learned that an activist effort had been lost because one of the members had portrayed the activism as illegal to authorities, and then testified to this at trial. What was unfortunate is that these activists were running a whistleblowing website, for workers and residents to leak misbehaviors of the corporation so they could be acted on and reversed, and this person who was no longet trusted by the community, stayed in charge of that website for the years going forward. Often when I ran into non-techy non-funded groups online or offline they were having serious website troubles and nobody knew how to get things onto it or change it.
One group I know lost access to their website multiple times, the old
website stayed up and google directed people to it, they had to register a new domain name ...
that sounds like the domain registrar stole-censored the domain name, which is exactly what I expect the ICANN mafia to do.
My dad used to run a domain registrar. Expiration deadlines are a big thing.
Do you have any opinions on this?
it's business as usual?
Kinda one-sided if the group's not a business I guess?