Wordpress.com vs Child torture victims

[glockgal]

Wordpress.com vs Child Torture Victims
Yeah, I can't believe I had to write that out either. Seems WordPress.com in all its corporate neutrality has taken to taunting a survivor or child torture by arbitrarily giving and taking away her right to speak out...then blaming her for not following Wordpress.com's ToS. So classy and mature, innit?

waywardradish

Comments

[kiri_moth]

You can host a WordPress blog via your own server/webhosting and they will then have no control over it (ie: they can't get into *your* server and shut it down)

Is there a way we can help by contributing server space or donate funds towards helping her set up her own site to host the blog?

[glockgal]

I was wondering about the difference between a Wordpress hosted on one's own server vs Wordpress hosted on Wordpress. I know she's going to a safer space to put her blog (because Wordpress is just so malicious, I doubt she wants much to do with it now) but I'll still ask her if she wants to host the old WP blog on my server since I have like....tonnes of space, heh.

Thanks for the idea, bb.

[kiri_moth]

I think the diff is the .com vs .org...I downloaded the Wordpress software from wordpress.org, but the blog is hosted on my own site, so they have no real control over it.

And as shitty as Wordpress.com's behavior in this may be, as a private commercial entity they do have the right to arbitrarily make the rules for how their blogs are used and censor whatever they want. :(

[glockgal]

Good to know - sometimes I worry about racebending.com, since it's Wordpress. But it's hosted on my server so they can SUCK IT.

No, I totally agree that their arbitrary is their right. I think their outright petulance and mockery of waywardradish's concerns are completely unprofessional and unfounded though.

[bzzinglikeneon]

They moved the site to http://stopchildtorture.org/, BTW. There's a new post on the WP blog linking to it.

[glockgal]

I just noticed that when I was looking up info to share with Ani. Go Radish!

[ratcreature]

I think a problem with having your blog in your own space when it is targetted by malicious groups may be that you are also more vulnerable to DDOS attacks and such traffic spikes (when you have to pay for the traffic) than if you host on a service. I mean, to bring down those it takes a lot, like that Georgian blogger I've heard of who was the target when LJ and Facebook had these problems recently? But if you have your own small space, wher normally you don't see a lot of traffic and don't pay as much, I suspect that's more at risk.

[fiere]

That was my initial thought as well, but apparently that wouldn't help much. :/

[kiri_moth]

I don't see how would WP have access to your server and files?

The other option is to not use WP at all, I bet we could find someone who could code a simple php blog template that she could use, and then the software would not belong to anyone else!