18andover ago

  1. There are no investors yet.

  2. No, that's not why. It was because of the hosting + paypal situations + general fear of more bad shit happening.

  3. He specifically said investors must agree to an open platform that doesn't restrict content.

jejt ago

Can you go into more detail on #2?

18andover ago

https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/163288

In the last few days Voat has come under all sorts of attacks. First, our servers were DDoSed. Then, our servers were shut down and our hosting contracts cancelled, without prior notification. Today, PayPal froze our donation money. As a cherry on top, the media wrote all kinds of negative things about Voat, cherry picking the content that serves their attacks best. What a happy week for us!

These are the subverses we banned: /v/doxbin, /v/jailbait, /v/truejailbait and /v/thefappening.

BeerBaron ago

He did a really shitty job of it then: /v/fappening

bigeasy ago

So you're suggesting that Atko planned to seek out venture capital before the last big influx of traffic that brough Voat to its knees?

Charlie_Prime ago

Who are Voat's new investors?