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https://web.archive.org/web/20210629030 ... dev/388198

by MattyJV • 3h ago (edited an hour ago) (+24/-0)
3rd Party Some ISPs and even TOR nodes are now blocking Poal

Already contacted AOU and suggested using Unstoppable Domains and getting an .onion service.

Also, I suggest users use Brave Browser since it not only has TOR built in with private windows but also has partnered wth Unstoppable Domains to fully support blockchain based DNS.

edit: It seems to be back up. I posted on some other similar sites and it started working again in a few hours. But AOU should take precautions now.

As a side note, AOU also failed to mention that he blocked some of the tor nodes that were supposedly used to spam poal.

Poal's new submission, already indexed by google and already on the top of search result.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210629162 ... cking+Poal

https://web.archive.org/web/20210629030 ... dev/388198

https://web.archive.org/web/20210629162 ... ?q=poal.co

Does this mean that he's fiddling around with stuff to make it look like they're under attack in order to get attention? I think i might need techtard explanation.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 7:24 pm Does this mean that he's fiddling around with stuff to make it look like they're under attack in order to get attention? I think i might need techtard explanation.

The submitter claimed poal got censored by ISPs and tor nodes. He posted to multiple sites to get the "news" out, when no such thing happened. Not only that poal was not censored, it looked like google timely indexed some of poal's content. The submission where it claimed of censorship was on the very top of google's result, without specifying site-specific search(site:poal.co). The claim of censorship was bullshit.

It is quite possible that google favored poal's content. Take these two submissions, for example

https://poal.co/s/News/388264
Tucker Carlson Says He Has Confirmed The NSA Is Spying On Him | "The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that." (dailycaller.com)

https://poal.co/s/News/388294
FBI Arrests 69-Year-Old LA Woman for Entering US Capitol “Without Lawful Authority” But Post Photo in Her Case Packet of Capitol Police Holding the Door for Her (www.thegatewaypundit.com)

you can find them using site:poal.co. Those submissions were less than 24 hours old and were already indexed by google, possibly promoted by submission's domain name.

Edit: it appears that one would need a poal account to view submissions by domain name.

possibly promoted by submission's domain name.

Would the posts show up on top because of dailycaller and gatewaypundit having agreements with google?
Would poal have to pay google to show up on top of search, normally?
I don't know how that guy can claim censorship, and AOU not correct the record.

shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 1:25 am

possibly promoted by submission's domain name.

Would the posts show up on top because of dailycaller and gatewaypundit having agreements with google?
Would poal have to pay google to show up on top of search, normally?
I don't know how that guy can claim censorship, and AOU not correct the record.

It is possible that they had agreements with google. But it is not necessarily paid. Google is happy to promote certain sources that support its agenda. Poal has not had any significant growth until Voat was shut down. That was its chance to boost its userbase. Its content was increased by about 400% (5 times its original number) after Voat shutdown. However, the quantity of content was more than halved (1.9 times its original number) following AOU's immature management. It seems that poal was limiting its own growth rate. A good number of Goats got kicked off. Like the other user said, poal is a hugbox, not in any form a Free Speech website it has claimed to be. And it is certainly not censored as a platform; however, its userbase is certainly censored by AOU

I think many users over at voat.xyz would find this very interesting.