How did the site get nuked? Are we next?

Edit: oh

"I just can't keep it up," Voat cofounder Justin Chastain said in the shutdown announcement. Investment dried up in March 2020, he explained. "I personally decided to keep Voat up until after the U.S. election of 2020. I’ve been paying the costs out of pocket but now I’m out of money."

This author clearly has brain damage from leftism.

Kate covers tech policy issues, including privacy, antitrust, and other shenanigans, from Washington, DC.

Parler is not necessarily extremist but skews heavily partisan, drawing mostly conservative and right-wing users based on false claims that other social media sites "censor" conservative views for political reasons.

In the middle of 2015, Voat's web host, Host Europe, suspended service to the platform, saying, "we will not tolerate any form of illegal right-wing extremist content and we explicitly distance ourselves from this." (Host Europe is based in Germany, which has stronger hate speech laws than the US.)

PayPal also suspended Voat's account in 2015, amid allegations the platform was hosting sexually explicit images of minors. Voat removed several forums in the wake of the suspension, including the ones dedicated to "jailbait," and switched to accepting donations in digital currencies such as bitcoin.

By 2020, another wave of users booted off other platforms had migrated to Voat: QAnon adherents. The QAnon conspiracy is linked to several incidents of real-world violence. Reddit banned several Q-linked communities in 2018, and Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube followed suit in 2020.

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Indeed, not political at all, comrade Beria.