Right Forge (opens in new tab)

Hosting service free from big tech, but uses Squarespace, Google Maps, Google Analytics, Facebook

Edit: even if they can't host their own site yet, the embeds/links aren't a great sign

At the core I think a service like this is a good idea, but the amount of political rhetoric in the landing page would make me not want to use this service. Would prefer the service be completely agnostic to the underlying users and not favor a political party or ideology.

That being said, I think this is more a reaction to a business need/market opportunity that exists rather than a true attempt at a platform that is free for all to use.

That's a lot of very specific claims with no corroborating details, to the point I wondered whether it's real at all.

Seems to be, headed by a Chris Bedford (apparently a The Federalist Senior Editor?).

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/29/finding-creative-intern...

They still have to follow section 230 of the CDA, right? They will need to remove material that is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected".

There is a component to this where they have to have "good faith", but eventually this will go to court.

This is going to be a haven for hate speech. I’m against it from the start and only solidifies my view that hate speech and free speech need to be mutually exclusive and codified in law in the US.

eh, more power to them. Anyone can rent colo and do what they're doing.

Just don't break your providers' terms of services when you're doing so. There's always an upstream vendor.

I'm all for more bulletproof hosting, but political hacks are unlikely to be content-disinterested, especially over the long term. Right out of the gate, they're disingenuously framing a "fight for honest and open debate.". But the latest spate of deplatforming had nothing to do with silencing debate. Rather it was an inevitable response to the Big Lie of "Stop the Steal", a bad-faith rallying cry that resulted in real-world violence - hence even AWS getting involved as S230 only covers civil liability. Meanwhile it seems like the biggest threat to actual conservatives (ie those not trying to destroy our institutions) is coming from the Republican party itself.

If this company is indeed run by the senior editor of the right-wing rag The Federalist, then it is deeply hypocritical. The Federalist is loading scripts from Cloudflare, Taboola, Quantserve, Facebook and others. This site is on SquareSpace.

You can't stand on a soapbox and whine about not being allowed to stand on a soapbox. These people think they're oppressed because they can't make death threats and plot deadly riots on federal property with impunity. Suck it up, put up a reverse proxy and host it on your own hardware. If people can run dark web marketplaces, you can sure as hell complain about the liberals being mean to you on your own hardware.