Blogger Tech Says Activist Post Taken Down by “Automated Process”

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 26, 2011

Blogger censorship is nothing new. The blogging platform owned by Google has a history of taking out blogs and websites it does not like or that are uncomfortable for the establishment.

Google worked closely with the authoritarian government in China to censor the internet. It’s video platform Youtube continually receives complaints that it removes controversial videos, especially politically controversial videos.

Google’s Youtube has not only dropped Alex Jones and other associated videos numerous times, they have also consistently fudged view count numbers used to judge the popularity of posted videos.

So it came as no surprise when the popular political website Activist Post suddenly disappeared and it turned out that Blogger had pulled the plug. It was eventually restored after a ground swell of complaints and criticism.

It is now a familiar pattern. A site suddenly disappears without explanation and after a couple days of news coverage it reappears. Blogger’s explanation for the Activist Post takedown – technical issues. Google has offered the same explanation after it has restored videos at Youtube.

Google usually backs down if the outrage is vocal and public enough, as it was in the case of the Activist Post takedown. Less popular sites that offend the elite and Google – a documented CIA front company – usually disappear forever.

The folks at Activist Post have posted a statement on the takedown. It is also posted below.

As many of you already know, this site was taken down by Blogger this past Friday.  It came as a shock to us and our loyal readers. Given the controversial topics that we cover, it’s perfectly understandable to speculate that Google removed us as a form of blunt censorship.  Indeed, that’s precisely what we thought happened.

We’re eternally grateful to those who made the story of our removal go viral.  Regardless of the actual reason Google erased this site, the power of the alternative community was proven this weekend. The incredible support and buzz generated by this story seemed to influence Google to respond quickly, and Activist Post was fully restored Sunday evening.

Here is the exact quote from their engineer:

I’m an engineer on blogger. I’d like to apologise on behalf of the team for the removal of activistpost.com. The removal was caused by an automated process, and we restored the blog as soon as the issue was brought to our attention.

Activist Post was started modestly on Blogger in June 2010 by average people who could no longer stand by quietly while the world descended further into the clutches of tyranny.  Because of the unyielding passion and conviction of truth, peace, and liberty activists, and the solidarity of the alternative news community, we quickly exploded beyond anything we could have imagined.  Until now, Blogger has served us well.

For the past few months we have discussed moving to an independent platform to avoid this exact scenario. This situation, however debilitating, has created the opportunity for us to do just that. Additionally, we realized that our content has outgrown our template’s ability to organize it properly. Over the next couple of weeks we will roll out our new platform.  In the meantime, we’ll continue our work as usual.

We are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support during this shutdown. Many amazing people from around the world in the alternative news community offered us servers and technical support.  Our stellar contributors and loyal readers made their voices heard loud and clear that censorship will not be tolerated.  We are humbled and more motivated than ever because of your heartfelt support.

Despite the tremendous challenges facing humanity, this situation proved to us that the human spirit, powered by truth and principle, is invincible.  We know now, more than ever, that peace, love, and liberty will indeed prevail over the darkness that currently shadows our world.  They cannot stop us when we work together, for we are many and they are few.






 
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26 Responses to “Blogger Tech Says Activist Post Taken Down by “Automated Process””

  1. Did anyone else find it impossible to ‘listen’ to the show this morning (My infowars screen was green…) Believed they’d be shut down…

  2. Look for more of this before net neutrality. The government will use it to justify their takeover. And then they will censor the internet while saying they are protecting the first amendment. It is a very sick Rothschild/Rockefeller joke.

  3. cngfratulations freedom fighters.one correction we have to offer to the final statement of the activist-

    they cant stop us because we are RIGHT and they are WRONG

  4. Try and find anti-Obama blogs. There aren’t any. I search daily and they must have been removed and censored like most of the media is now.

    This is the real story that the media is not and cannot report on. Here’s what Obama, Osama, Biden, Bin Laden, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists, and Sarah Palin had to do with the last election and the military’s overthrow of our government. Search PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot and learn why Sarah Palin really is a national hero.

  5. Wow…. yet another conspiracy theory.

    Heard another one last night – Michael Jackson is still alive and well. It was all a hoax. His ‘death’ was another staged event.

    • You must be new. This type of activity is nothing new, and follows the same pattern repeatedly. By the way, theories are theories because they hold only supposition and an educated guess without the factual basis required to elevate it from a ‘theory’. The fact that there are numerous conspiracies, provable and documented, is no theory. I encourage you to actually not look for an opinion from someone uneducated and/or unfamiliar with whatever topic you want to investigate, and invest some time into searching for material yourself regarding ‘conspiracy theories’…you will find that many that you yourself have written off in the past have since been admitted and proven (quietly, mind you) and entered into the public record. There was an article posted a few days ago that had a title something like ’10 conspiracy theories that have been proven fact’ or something similar to that…interesting read, and one of literally thousands of articles, government documents, white papers, memoirs of elitists, etc. etc. etc. that are available for anyone to read any time they like…unfortunately, Truth’s biggest enemy today is an asleep population, willing to believe the grey haired guy on the tv at 6 before they believe their own eyes.

  6. To Eric Blair and all our friends at Activist Post, BREAKING ALL THE RULES is greatly pleased to see you are back online.

    Kurt,

    Thanks for writing this featured arcticle.

    SARTRE

  7. I guess they want to make themselves a target of Anonymous

  8. I have a solution for activist post or anyone else planning to start a news site or blog. Use WordPress and manage your own site. It’s not a good idea to depend on third party services only such as Google or Facebook to “host” and “power” your content. You can download the WordPress blogging platform free of charge and install it on your own server very easily. Plus WordPress is a much better platform.

  9. With all the bullshit in and around Denver friday,
    I can report that other than terrorizing grade school students with the lock down of their schools, no sane adult was bothered by the terror “drill.” Just the children,
    And everyone knows how pleasant it is for young children to have armed,black clothing clad, mask wearing “authorities” burst into your class room to practice “WAR” while trying to learn what 2 plus 4 equals!!

  10. All you conspiracy theorists out there…just so you know…you are incorrect to call this censorship. When enough READERS flag this blog as objectionable, it will automatically go down pending review. READ THE TERMS OF AGREEMENT CLOWNS!

    The blog was NOT censored by Google. It was flag attacked by viewers of the blog.

    So, if you have a problem with Google’s system, be a grown up and host WordPress or something else yourself! Google is under NO OBLIGATION to host your website FOR FREE, ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN TERMS. Idiots!

    Anytime I see posts like this, it really has to make me wonder about just how dumb these infowars people really are. And I don’t mean the writers; they know full well that this is all B.S. They are using emotion to fire you up. They know full well that Google is a private company and according to the Terms of Service, they own EVERYTHING you write on their servers. Solution? USE YOUR OWN SERVER MORONS!

    Ah, but if you did that then what would you have to complain about? Personally, I find Google’s software to be very good and top notch, especially as a free offering.

    But seriously, to the readers who take this article seriously…honestly, are you really that dumb?

    Lastly, you have got to be joking about Google’s CIA connection right? Of EVERY LINK YOU POSTED, there is NOT A SINGLE SHRED OF EVIDENCE to support that. In fact, the closest you come if the marketwatch link, a link buried within a link that says “The Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a legal request for information on Google Inc.’s reported plans to team with the National Security Agency in analyzing a recent cyber-attack originating in China.

    On Thursday, the Washington Post, citing unnamed sources, reported that Google GOOG -1.79% plans to partner with the NSA – the U.S. government’s largest intelligence agency, with a specialty in electronic surveillance – to analyze the cyber-attack.”

    Google was cyber attacked by hackers in China. China is America’s enemy. The NSA wants information about China’s hackers for our own national security. Google has ALLEGEDLY, according to the article, cited by “unnamed sources” agreed to work with the NSA on this particular thing. So from that, HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU CONCLUDE THAT GOOGLE IS A CIA FRONT??? ZERO PROOF!!!! IDIOTS!!! And before you try to say I’m the idiot, don’t bother to try to lure me to the links because I have read every one of them and they prove ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. IT IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY AND NOTHING MORE!

    Why do I feel like I am the only reasonable person on this website?

    • simple:
      go away
      find people that think like you.
      “reasonable” my ass. you are a fool.

    • Blah blah blah. This is censorship. Freedom of speech doesn’t go away because the majority of people don’t like what your saying. Plus, Googles blogging platform isn’t as good as you make it out to be. Do you work for Google or are you just a fanboy/fangirl. WordPress blows it away.

    • The problem of censorship is a growing and increasingly wide spread practice by Google, Facebook and Yahoo and possibly others. Go to this website and read the experiences of some of those affected. (We are not allowed to put links here so you will have to put your own “dot”, and then paste into your browser.)

      www (dot) hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/77877/

      also go to: www (dot) wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/09/facebook-treating-skeptic-blog-articles-as-abusive/

      Indicting all of us, without proof of your claims is not negating any standard that we used, which is documentation that Alex Jones has provided and is available for you to obtain from him. Google has acted to censor at the behest of China for the net in China, and if don’t think that they would roll over an comply with any DHS, C.I.A., F.B.I. or court requests or orders you are the one is either dumb or just fronting for Google’s best interests for reasons known only to you.

      I can no longer post on Worldnetdaily comments sections of their stories, not for moderation, I was never informed of any of that, but most likely because I raised some embarrassing issues for Obama and other things not showing government in a positive light. When you are effective in the way you expose the fraud and danger that our government poses for us, you are eventually going to get censored. I could go into the way it was done involving Facebook and Yahoo, but for now, just know it is happening, there is ample evidence all over the web for it and you don’t know what you are talking about , just defending the oppressors of free speech and we have to wonder why you are here doing it.

    • IllFerris, what is your point in posting on this website? I think you like it when people dislike you. Do what Patrick says and go find like-minded people and post there.

      After reading your entire post, everything you said has already been proven/debunked. You keep telling us we have zero proof and yet, you bring zero evidence to your arguments yourself. Please come more prepared next time and may God bless your family.

      Do us all a favor and take the high road for once.

      END THE FED
      RON PAUL 2012

    • “So, if you have a problem with Google’s system, be a grown up and host WordPress or something else yourself! Google is under NO OBLIGATION to host your website FOR FREE, ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN TERMS. Idiots!”

      FYI- The host was not “free” moron-ActivistPost hosted several “ads by google”. You have got to be kidding me that Google hosts for “free”. You sound like a Hilliary Clinton lackey.

  11. Many are awakening now and realize that they must act if their way of life is to be preserved. Everyone knows that actions speak louder than words. It is now time for action! Unlike talking, more action is needed! If you are willing to take action read on?

    The technology now exists that will allow the constituents of each elected official to become that elected official’s ultimate check and balance. How? By giving the constituents the power to participate directly in the governing process alongside their representatives. A literal “People’s Branch” of government. Implementing a “People’s Branch” at each level of government, local, state, national, is a reasonable, non-violent, way to make government more transparent, less corrupt, more accountable, less wasteful, more fair and equitable.

    Why is it that even though everyone is for better government a political movement that would ultimately improve government at all levels by neutralizing special interest’s control is yet to be implemented? “The People’s Branch” is a realistic way to regain control of government. You can get involved with the real political solution at: ThePeoplesBranch(dot)org

    There has never been a greater need for the political solution(s) provided by The People’s Branch. But no one is saying it is going to be easy. Yet, neither was the Civil Rights movement or the Women’s Suffrage movement, etc., etc. Politicians fear this political movement because they know that if it succeeds then their power and control will come to an end and the people’s influence upon government will truly begin.

    Talk is always going to be cheep. However, if you want improvement in government then you should be willing to take action and get involved in the only political solution that has a chance to truly reform the evils of government in a sustainable way! You, your family and future generations will appreciate the positive changes.

    • This would be an excellent idea, a sort of built-in auditing organization of the people to defend their interests. Here is a potential problem which needs to be addressed first thought, I believe.

      A.) How are we going to get the corrupt courts and politicians and present crony bureaucrats to be forced to accept it, without violence, which is, I agree, preferable?

      B.) How do we watch the watchers sort of speak to see that they are not corrupted by money or blackmail, etc. as far too many of our current government types are.

      C.) People are fallible , so checks and balances would need to be instituted for the checks and balances people. My wife and I were one of the handful of original tea party members in a Texas town, we watched as F.E.M.A. , and other government operatives and R.I.N.O. Republicans infiltrated it making it impossible to say or do anything that would get to the heart of the problems of government with a few exceptions.

      I do like the idea that you have proposed which is excellent. I would like to know how to impliment it without force, which is going to be tough. Perhaps if those in power perceived that force would ultimately be used if they did not comply then they may want to comply to save their own skin, but otherwise, they’ll just do as they do now, sit and stonewall and continue business as usual. They need a motivation, a wake-up call and impending revolution may be the only way they’d be forced to comply or leave, leaving being the better option for us.

  12. RICK PERRY is a BAD JOKE

    * found a NEWS site for people who are AWAKE

    check out infowarrior76 . com

  13. The criminal bankster traitors bent on global domination cannot have the internet continuing without them controlling it. So, witness a growing flurry of activity from every government agency and every other entity the banksters control all blatantly breaking laws, violating the Constitution, ignoring the Bill of Rights, and doing everything they can to (1) cause fear, for use as an excuse to take away our freedom, (2) engineer global econimic collapse, for the purpose of using it as an excuse to sujbect us to a tyrannical one-world government, (3) squelch all voices of opposition, while they continue to push forth a massive brainwashing campaign through the corporate-owned mass-media and entertainment outlets.

    Face it. What with a blatant depopulation agenda full under way, on top of all their other machinations, the globalists are well on the way to accomplishing their goals.

  14. I kindly ask you to censor this:
    To Google and to all the Zionists enabling you,
    By the end of the year I am confident that I will have located every employee and once that is done
    I have every intention of tying you down, injecting HIV virus with a syringe in your body several times to make 100% sure you are infected, once I feel sure (15-20 stabs to the skin) I will make your children take a big mac sized bite from you. Once I feel that they have eaten enough of you I will pour hydroflouric acid down from your legs to your face as you hang in a declined position.

    • We are all frustrated and we all get angry sometimes, but comments like yours, that threaten violence, do nothing but tarnish the Patriot movement.

      When you make thinly veiled threats it casts Patriotd in a very poor light.

      Think before you post.

      Demonstrate your conviction through your vote.

      Signed,
      A proud Patriot

    • YOU ARE FOOL,WHERE DID YOU GET THE DRUGS?

    • Yeah man, we get your frustration but the goons checking this site might see it differently. We already know of at least one case where someone falsely boasting as you are doing now is very much in a real prison just for typing at his keyboard. Is that wrong?…Of course it is… There is a man facing more time in prison for complaining about a cop shooting an innocent than the cop who actually killed an innocent.

      Everywhere we look our rights have been suspended and depending on which crooked judge you might find yourself facing, your 1st amendment rights might not be present to protect you. Be carefull what you say here because they already know who you are and will only save what you have printed and use it against you in the future if they ever feel inclinded to do so.

  15. It’d be nice on the new platform you have user profiles and within the profiles be able to see what and where we post a comment so it doesn’t get lost in the ocean of information. And have a blog section.

  16. Another website was posting yesterday that there is a lot of evidence suggesting that the horrible ones are planning a false flag for this week while Obama is in Denver for a ‘maximum readiness drill” by the DHS, it is believe the attack may be a dirty bomb in Washingt DC or Atlanta………wish Alex would comment……….

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