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# Sometimes a provider acts in a way that threatens or destroys a client’s rights. The client then has the right to decamp from the said provider and to build a new provider. Such a provider can then promulgate such regulations as will best serve the market for connectivity and freedom.

# Sometimes a provider acts in a way that threatens or destroys a client’s rights. The client then has the right to decamp from the said provider and to build a new provider. Such a provider can then promulgate such regulations as will best serve the market for connectivity and freedom.

== Abuses of power ==

== Abuses of power ==

One does not change a long-lasting provider-client relationship for light or transient causes. Furthermore, Internet users would rather suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to set themselves right by abandoning such long-lasting relationships. All human experience has shown this. But what happens when providers suddenly abuse their power, alone or in coordination? What happens when, in so doing, they demonstrate the clear objective of censorship? Then the client has the right – the ‘’duty’’ – to abandon such providers. That could mean choosing other providers or building their own.

One does not change a long-lasting provider-client relationship for light or transient causes. Furthermore, Internet users would rather suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to set themselves right by abandoning such long-lasting relationships. All human experience has shown this. But what happens when providers suddenly abuse their power, alone or in coordination? What happens when, in so doing, they demonstrate the clear objective of censorship? Then the client has the right – the ''duty'' – to abandon such providers. That could mean choosing other providers or building their own.

This is the kind of abuse up with which conservative Internet users have long put. The Alex Jones affair<ref name=AlexJones>Hurlbut TA, “Alex Jones, terms of service, and truth,” ‘’Conservative News and Views’’, published 10 August 2018. <http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2018/08/10/accountability/news-media/alex-jones-terms-service-truth/></ref> has brought this to an immediate head. This, in turn, compels us now to provide for ourselves the services our erstwhile providers would now deny us.

This is the kind of abuse up with which conservative Internet users have long put. The Alex Jones affair<ref name=AlexJones>Hurlbut TA, “Alex Jones, terms of service, and truth,” ''Conservative News and Views'', published 10 August 2018. <http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2018/08/10/accountability/news-media/alex-jones-terms-service-truth/></ref> has brought this to an immediate head. This, in turn, compels us now to provide for ourselves the services our erstwhile providers would now deny us.

The history of the present Internet social establishment includes vague “Terms of Service” and abrogation of account and contractual relationships for any reason or no reason. All such acts have in direct object the suppression of any voice of protest against leftist opinion. To prove this, we now submit facts to a candid cybernetic universe.

The history of the present Internet social establishment includes vague “Terms of Service” and abrogation of account and contractual relationships for any reason or no reason. All such acts have in direct object the suppression of any voice of protest against leftist opinion. To prove this, we now submit facts to a candid cybernetic universe.

=== Direct censorship ===

=== Direct censorship ===

* Web hosts have refused to install certain technical refinements that would make the Internet run better for everyone. “Better” includes “more securely,” against viruses and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

* Web hosts have refused to install certain technical refinements that would make the Internet run better for everyone. “Better” includes “more securely,” against viruses and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

* Social-network moderators have suspended and revoked accounts for any cause or no cause. They cite “Terms of Service” that appear to ask for politeness. But ‘’those same moderators allow leftist account holders a pass for demonstrably rude behavior.’’ Behavior that provides a pretext for kicking off a conservative, passes as acceptable in a leftist.

* Social-network moderators have suspended and revoked accounts for any cause or no cause. They cite “Terms of Service” that appear to ask for politeness. But ''those same moderators allow leftist account holders a pass for demonstrably rude behavior.'' Behavior that provides a pretext for kicking off a conservative, passes as acceptable in a leftist.

* Web hosts have suspended entire Web sites, likewise selectively applying Terms of Service and alleging breach of content regulation. Sometimes they accuse site administrators of burdening their services disproportionately. When the said administrators inform them that they are in fact under DDoS attack, the hosts turn deaf ears.

* Web hosts have suspended entire Web sites, likewise selectively applying Terms of Service and alleging breach of content regulation. Sometimes they accuse site administrators of burdening their services disproportionately. When the said administrators inform them that they are in fact under DDoS attack, the hosts turn deaf ears.

* Search engine administrators, inside or outside social networks, have suppressed our sites and commentaries from search results. To this end they have changed “algorithms” daily in many cases. The results strongly suggest their specific tasking of their staff to watch for and “manually” suppress any mention of us.

* Search engine administrators, inside or outside social networks, have suppressed our sites and commentaries from search results. To this end they have changed “algorithms” daily in many cases. The results strongly suggest their specific tasking of their staff to watch for and “manually” suppress any mention of us.

=== Open war ===

=== Open war ===

* Social-network chief administrators have declared us out of their protection and are now prosecuting open war against us. Witnesses report sudden decrease in followership, or direct termination of their own accounts.

* Social-network chief administrators have declared us out of their protection and are now prosecuting open war against us. Witnesses report sudden decrease in followership, or direct termination of their own accounts.

* Those same social-network moderators are now implementing a system to rate the “trustworthiness”<ref name=Facebook>Keach S, “Facebook has TRUST ratings for users &ndash; but it won’t tell you your score,” ‘’The Sun’’, 21 August 2018. <https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7067261/facebook-trust-rating-score-check/></ref> of account holders. They refuse to reveal their criteria. Yet they have announced plans to discipline users according to this new rating.

* Those same social-network moderators are now implementing a system to rate the “trustworthiness”<ref name=Facebook>Keach S, “Facebook has TRUST ratings for users &ndash; but it won’t tell you your score,” ''The Sun'', 21 August 2018. <https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7067261/facebook-trust-rating-score-check/></ref> of account holders. They refuse to reveal their criteria. Yet they have announced plans to discipline users according to this new rating.

* They have excited and incited DDoS and other attacks against us. Furthermore they refuse in all cases even to acknowledge that such attacks are in fact taking place.

* They have excited and incited DDoS and other attacks against us. Furthermore they refuse in all cases even to acknowledge that such attacks are in fact taking place.

* Service providers of all types are now acting in concert like an ‘’ad hoc’’ political action committee. They propose to use their services as weapons to influence materially upcoming Federal, State and local elections. And they do this without our consent, some without acknowledgment, and some with brazen avowal.

* Service providers of all types are now acting in concert like an ''ad hoc'' political action committee. They propose to use their services as weapons to influence materially upcoming Federal, State and local elections. And they do this without our consent, some without acknowledgment, and some with brazen avowal.

 

== Breach of contract ==

== Breach of contract ==

In every stage of these outrages, we have asked the administrators involved for redress or at least explanations. These administrators have answered our repeated petitions only by repeated injury. An administrator who thus marks his character by every act which may define a tyrannical censor, is unfit to provide network connective or social services to any community of ‘’free’’ users. (Such an administrator is also guilty of fraud, if he has promised civil authorities he would not so act.)

In every stage of these outrages, we have asked the administrators involved for redress or at least explanations. These administrators have answered our repeated petitions only by repeated injury. An administrator who thus marks his character by every act which may define a tyrannical censor, is unfit to provide network connective or social services to any community of ‘’free’’ users. (Such an administrator is also guilty of fraud, if he has promised civil authorities he would not so act.)