08-19-2018, 06:17 AM
A number of far-right/alt-right Internet personalities have recently been banned from social media sites, or had their blogs taken away, etc. This should have been expected, given the political climate, media protocols, and with who holds a lot of the levers in the tech industry. Naturally, there are plenty of sources you find online that explain things from various viewpoints, but I wouldn't get caught up in the debate unless you have a predilection for that sort of thing.
We at Radix Fidem are neither right nor left--we're not even on the map of approved political views in the democratic West. If anything, we would look like anarchists, based on our rejection on the modern nation-state as a system God approves of. That's fine if others think that. If you're not a little bit mysterious and weird, you might be doing things wrong. Let your heart guide you, but don't outright reject what some political viewpoints might have to say. At the very least, their vocabulary may be useful to us if we're ever going to explain our position.
We're also pretty much nobodies in the grand scheme of the Internet. Although our door is open for anyone to come in and check us out, we basically talk amongst ourselves in the corner. We're barely a blip on the radar, but that doesn't mean we're completely safe; no one online really is. If someone wants to take us down, they pretty much can.
Ed has some great posts on securing yourself online, if you are so oriented and hear the whispers to do such a thing. Your level of diligence should be determined by the parameters of the mission God is calling you to. Don't let others tell you what that should look like. Though Ed and I have different focuses on what all of this could mean, I can offer my advice based on my years of the doing freelance web design and software development.
1 - Buy a domain (i.e., www.whatevername.com, .org). This is both easy and cheap, as most domains will cost you roughly $10 a year for common top-level domains, like (.com, .org, .net) to maintain ownership. You can set up a simple page for free on Github and point the domain towards that, if you don't have a website or blog, that shows your contact information. If you point it towards a blog that gets taken down, you can simply point it to another blog you start. This is secure mostly because this is something you have the most control over, and serious legal action is required to actually take a domain away from you, as opposed to a tech provider banning you and removing your content.
2 - Buy web hosting. This is taking another step further, and there is more cost to this. Buying your own hosting frees you from a lot of the politics of having a site hosted by a third party, i.e., Wordpress, so there is a lot less scrutiny. Hosting providers are less likely to bother paying customers unless you're really obviously trying to cause trouble and draw attention to yourself. As mentioned in #1, you can host things freely through sites like Github, but those options are limiting if you want to make use of a database for a blog.
3 - Set up a second email account. Preferably a non-US-based one, and don't publicize your email. There are free ones like Protonmail and Tutanota, who are better with security and non-snoopiness, compared to Gmail or Yahoo, etc. I would create an email address that doesn't connect back to you; spinxo is a good resource for generating a weird username. If, for some reason, you get your normal email taken away, you can message your contacts with this second one. You'll get bonus points if you have a domain set up and use whatever@yourdomain.com as an address: you can simply point that email to the second address, so there would be little lag in communications there.
We at Radix Fidem are neither right nor left--we're not even on the map of approved political views in the democratic West. If anything, we would look like anarchists, based on our rejection on the modern nation-state as a system God approves of. That's fine if others think that. If you're not a little bit mysterious and weird, you might be doing things wrong. Let your heart guide you, but don't outright reject what some political viewpoints might have to say. At the very least, their vocabulary may be useful to us if we're ever going to explain our position.
We're also pretty much nobodies in the grand scheme of the Internet. Although our door is open for anyone to come in and check us out, we basically talk amongst ourselves in the corner. We're barely a blip on the radar, but that doesn't mean we're completely safe; no one online really is. If someone wants to take us down, they pretty much can.
Ed has some great posts on securing yourself online, if you are so oriented and hear the whispers to do such a thing. Your level of diligence should be determined by the parameters of the mission God is calling you to. Don't let others tell you what that should look like. Though Ed and I have different focuses on what all of this could mean, I can offer my advice based on my years of the doing freelance web design and software development.
1 - Buy a domain (i.e., www.whatevername.com, .org). This is both easy and cheap, as most domains will cost you roughly $10 a year for common top-level domains, like (.com, .org, .net) to maintain ownership. You can set up a simple page for free on Github and point the domain towards that, if you don't have a website or blog, that shows your contact information. If you point it towards a blog that gets taken down, you can simply point it to another blog you start. This is secure mostly because this is something you have the most control over, and serious legal action is required to actually take a domain away from you, as opposed to a tech provider banning you and removing your content.
2 - Buy web hosting. This is taking another step further, and there is more cost to this. Buying your own hosting frees you from a lot of the politics of having a site hosted by a third party, i.e., Wordpress, so there is a lot less scrutiny. Hosting providers are less likely to bother paying customers unless you're really obviously trying to cause trouble and draw attention to yourself. As mentioned in #1, you can host things freely through sites like Github, but those options are limiting if you want to make use of a database for a blog.
3 - Set up a second email account. Preferably a non-US-based one, and don't publicize your email. There are free ones like Protonmail and Tutanota, who are better with security and non-snoopiness, compared to Gmail or Yahoo, etc. I would create an email address that doesn't connect back to you; spinxo is a good resource for generating a weird username. If, for some reason, you get your normal email taken away, you can message your contacts with this second one. You'll get bonus points if you have a domain set up and use whatever@yourdomain.com as an address: you can simply point that email to the second address, so there would be little lag in communications there.