Texas anti-abortion tip website gets new home with controversial provider known for neo-Nazi sites | Salon.com
By: Brett Bachman (Salon)
that makes sense. cyber home to neo-nazis, white supremacists, and now bible thumpers. the majority of the GOP coalition all finally under one roof.
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A controversial "whistleblower" website set up to anonymously report people providing or assisting Texans with abortions has a new home after GoDaddy, the popular domain hosting service, booted the site earlier this week for its collection of personal information.
According to public domain registration data first reported by the technology publication ArsTechnica, ProLifeWhistleblower.com was added to the client roster of Epik, an infamous provider known for working with neo-Nazi and other extremist sites.
The "snitch hotline," as critics online have taken to calling it, was created by the anti-abortion evangelical group Texas Right to Life. Immediately upon its creation, the website generated intense controversy and was eventually flooded with bogus tips and Shrek porn — crashing the website due to overwhelming traffic.
The online drama was the latest fallout from a near-total abortion ban which went into effect in the state this week, after the Supreme Court refused to block the measure Wednesday night. The law bars doctors from performing the procedures after six weeks, long before many women are even aware they are pregnant. It also incentivizes people to sue providers and those who assist people seeking abortions, such as ride-share drivers or social workers.
It all began last Thursday when GoDaddy terminated the website's domain registration, saying Texas Right to Life "violated multiple provisions," including one which bars sites hosted by the company to "collect or harvest... non-public or personally identifiable information" without written consent from the subject.
In a defiant blog post, Texas Right to Life spokesperson Kimberlyn Schwartz blasted the decision: "We will not be silenced. If anti-Lifers want to take our website down, we'll put it back up."
"No one can keep us from telling the truth. No one can stop us from saving lives. We are not afraid of the mob. Anti-Life activists hate us because we're winning. Hundreds of babies are being saved from abortion right now because of Texas Right to Life, and these attacks don't change that."
Within 24 hours the site had moved to Epik, which has made a name for working with extremist websites that other companies have deemed too toxic: neo-Nazi propaganda, QAnon home base 8chan, Alex Jones' conspiracy theory network InfoWars, as well as right-wing social media sites Parler and Gab.
But even Epik founder Robert Monster appears to have his limits: late Saturday night it appeared the Texas Right to Life website disabled its anonymous tip submission form.
"We received complaints about the site," a representative for Epik told The Daily Beast, saying the website "violated Epik's Terms of Use," an apparent reference to the collection of third-party personal information without consent.
"We contacted the owner of the domain, who agreed to disable the collection of user submissions on this domain."
As of 1 a.m. Monday, it appears the site had shut down completely.
It remains unclear whether Texas Right to Life will continue to solicit anonymous whistleblower tips in some other way.
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seems perfectly logical to me...
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Doesn't North Korea and Russia allow these sites?
two new possibilities...
It should be called “The Rat Site”
Wasn't spying on your neighbors a national pastime in Nazi Germany?
Spying on your neighbors is an activity promoted by most authoritarian regimes.
Well, this part is hopeful, anyway:
gosh, it seems like those so willing for a fight this time last year are especially sensitive to litigation this year.
What ever did happen to Parler, anyway?
don't ask me, probably stuck in some backwater eddy well off the mainstream of social media like frankspeech and the rest of the seditionist klan sites, where they belong.
It's available for free on the Freedom phone, remember that promotional disaster?
good read
The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives (yahoo.com)
Or the pillow guys new twitter site...
I still don't see how he made so much money off of a fake currency...
speculation
I understand it but I have never been able to benefit by the ignorance of others who have supported such nonsense.
Parler is running on an Eastern European server. The company was taken over by Rebekah Mercer and forced out Jahn Matze who has since filed suit. One of the issues between them was advertising and the selling of user information and money seems to always win. It's interesting to note that Mercer is selling the user information from Parler to another marketing company that Mercer also owns. One of the other ways they make money is to have "influencers" pose as regular posters and talk about some product or service.
Conservatives have to have their own phones???? What's the matter Apple and Samsung not good enough for them?
Talk about preying on people's gullibility.
Also for fictional Oceania of George Orwell's "1984".
Stupid Texans are always saying it isn't that bad...
Well, you know what? It is bad and the gop did it!
You've gotta be a Dumbass Texan not to be aware.
One of NT’s members always refers to dems as brown shirts. The irony of that after this fiasco is laughable.
Brown shirts? Pfft! We're Blackshirted SS Commies all week and Bambi Bashers on weekends, ya get no respect around here.
Hey Rodney! How ya been? I heard you died a few years ago. I really miss ya
Aww. Who would have thought that collecting data from users about other people would be frowned upon...
Right? Scared of being microchipped with a vaccine needle, but perfectly ok with strangers trying to find out somebody's private medical information. The stupidity and hypocrisy boggles the mind.
It does, doesn't it? I don't know how these people live with themselves
If you have a tip that helps Texas persecute women for having miscarriages then you can earn ten thousand $.
What can possibly go wrong when justice miscarries?
Those who perform, aid, or abet in the termination of a pregnancy are the targets. If a wife miscarries then maybe they’ll go after the husband, her boss, the Karen next door, the puppy that isn’t housebroken, etc. - anyone who stressed her out. Heck, go after Joe Biden or Donald Trump, depending on her political affiliation.