and how long are we going to be down?
and that is the whole point of this lockdown? I doubt voat is still under DDOS attack(and even if we assume it is, wouldn't it be reasonable to think that if some forces have been attacking voat constantly for months, they will keep attacking voat forever?), it has been fucking months since we are down.
Owner proudly claims that:
This is where I think the hand of God works in mysterious ways. They next came after Voat, but because of the recent attacks, Voat was inaccessible to those without accounts, thus giving them zero content in which to twist and distort in order to pressure a company like CloudFlare
Am I the only one who thinks this is extremely illogical ? Declaring a victory over hate police because they were unable to 'shut us down'? no shit, they couldn't shut us down, we shut ourselves down. I think owners don't understand that they took us down,for 99.99999% of internet-they took us down, no one but registered users can access voat, I have no access to stats, but I am fairly sure that our already small population decreased even further (and vorse, right now it has zero chance of growth) Voat is nothing more than some well hidden discord group or closed niche community on major websites.
Here comes a question, sure, they didn't shut us down, but what is the point of websites' existence in this circumstances ? Can site owners tell us what goals hate police would have achieved with shutting voat down what they haven't achieved with this self imposed lockdown anyway ? is becoming small closed community group with several hundred people (at best) aim of voat? because if it is, I doubt hate police has anything against that.
and finally, what the heck are site owners planning to do ? Are you guys just waiting it to stop ? or planning to do something? and most importantly, what the heck is the strategy of the website? what is the aim?
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SaneHPOPiSwear ago
Voat is now 100% a honeypot. I had my assumptions before in the past. But there is no doubting it now.
Feel free to keep posting and commenting as you were... We should not fear free speech.
Just know Putt was replaced A LONG TIME AGO.
KILLtheRATS ago
A honey pot for what? Crazy talk? Voat has 0 power. Nobody fears voat
Wooden_door ago
Based on the evidence that is incorrect.
Tallest_Skil ago
Yeah, what evidence? Actually do list it. Who here has any power? Who here is a threat in any way? I’ve posted the real-world physical fucking instructions for defeating the ZOG here. Do you see anyone doing anything about it? On either side?
Wooden_door ago
Voat is pointless because it never achieves anything, but they always fear the people who don't give a fuck, and shut you down, just incase.
Why waste money ddosing a site that has users that do nothing in real life to make change. Bit retarded tbh.
This has to be the worst honeypot ever because they all fucking know where the problems really lie.
Voat is destroying itself without help from outside sources because it is just a boring shitfest of the same recycled crap. Why would anyone waste their money fighting it.
Tallest_Skil ago
That and it refuses to ban people who lie.
Folke ago
Voat is now for FBI/CIA/NSA to shill up a Right Winger into violence. Every few days we get a couple threads calling for violence. They are trying to work up and get something started so they can justify taking away our guns.
Element115 ago
It's more likely a psychological study of some kind. What you mention may or may not be one of the goals. Some form of, not speaking literally, "thought control" is certain to be among them.
Do you think they picked a cool name for the operation? I bet it's got a cool name.
Folke ago
Possible, and you know it has some kind of weird name, don't know about cool.
Element115 ago
Yeah I guess it could just be named after a famous goat herder or something.
udo ago
WRONG BOTH OF YOU
Hey all, and @Folke, the process of naming a federal level operation are actually very very controlled and strict. A large department (NICKA, cryptonym chief, etc) has to approve of the name, and the name has so many rules you would be astounded. Rules on the first letters, rules on the length, rules on banned subphrases, rules on associated-ness (anything goat would be banned), and if you read about how the projects are named you would truly be amazed.
FRESH 2019 on DIA (Pentagon) Procedure :
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29353/how-the-pentagon-comes-up-with-all-those-secret-project-nicknames-and-crazy-code-words
WOW! Read that!
Id rather send you links to authoritative documents, but that link is public and correct enough.
I can assure you the code word for the three overlapping task force investigations that include voat.co analysis from the other agencies are SIMILAR to the pentagon agency rules. (In fact a meta organization makes sure no other fed branch collides)
"Other agencies"? Yes, for USA alone the other intelligence agencies that care about internet intelligence are :
CIA/NSA/NRO/FBI/DIA/USDOJ/State Dept INR/USAFISR/DOE/DHS/TFI/ONSI/DOJ/ etc
You are correct that humans DESIRE whimsical project names, but if you read up, you will see that there are too many rules on naming.
Oh, some projects scanning voat were enacted BEFORE voat.co ever even existed , and are ongoing, such as ECHELON, and 5-EYES : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
anyways.... sorry for butting in, you guys seemed to want to know how intelligence operations were given names.
Element115 ago
That's both interesting and disgusting that there would be a department just for naming things.
Not everything gets a super secret name though. Whatever they do here is not at the scale of something like MKULTRA, so it might just get the kind of name that makes the news when they round up the white nationalists.
Or maybe it is MKULTRA in scope and I'm just not a sufficiently good target so they ignore me.