Yo WTF... u/Evspra's gone!
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The George News people went ape shit when George was proven a larp. Evspra investigated them and posted his findings. He said links would be removed of any George posts here. People went ape shit and trashed him to the point he left. He did not say you could not discuss George here or get banned. The George crew refused to understand what was going on and went on a feral hunt enough so it made him delete his account.
Evspra’s best piece of evidence was that one video GN posted was also elsewhere, and yet had no analysis that attempted to find a connection between the two. Instead, they opted for censorship, banning sprees, and flaming. Classic Reddit-style mod. Gtfo Evspra.
I guess them banning people that brought it up doesn't factor in at all huh?
Sure it does. Ever consider the possibility that the connection may risk George’s safety by doxing them? I’d be quick to ban if that were the case too
... They are at risk of being doxxed by having a "connection" with a website that posts public domain videos?
Please explain to me how that makes any sense whatsoever
Also calling simply appropriating videos posted by someone else a "connection" is a bit of a stretch to me.
Um. Not the website, the original poster. Are you okay?
dude.. again, it's public domain, anyone could go into that site and see the video, people just pointed it out..
It's not like it required some authentication and people were spreading that...
Riddle me this, if the video is theirs, and they have both a telegram channel and a youtube account, why not just upload it straight to one of those?
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Been a member of forums since the late 90s and this happens all the time (or did back then). He had valid points. I think there may have been valid counter points tho. I think we and he should be able to agree to disagree. I didn't agree with his assessment, but that didn't mean I thought he was a poor mod. He felt deeply that his conclusion was correct (moreso than mine, I'll admit).
Maybe a better idea would have been to add a disclaimer to any George links (which could easily be done with CSS) that it's believed to be a larp by some... but, there's a LOT of larp-level material here that gets posted (links to sketchy news sites, people with unknown affiliations, etc), so where is the line and limit? That's the issue with social media now – they're determining for everyone else what's right/wrong/true/false. I know this wasn't the heart, but maybe how some felt. I just saw it as the typical forum drama and personally wish he would have stayed the course and didn't delete the account.
They proven it themselves when they started banning people that brought it up
So let me get this straight, it was found that they were simply reposting videos, without giving credit, with a hastened watermark put in as if it was theirs
People started simply questioning about this, and were banned immediately for it, and in your nanoscopic mind, that means nothing at all?
I'm just here for the free donuts.
Ev is best mod
Great. Now I’m going to go full autist mode on GN, paper.li and finity.ai.
Ah, one step further. They sell packaged content and marketing to make it look like you have a.content team.
stop fighting with each other
GO BUILD GUNS
the meek shall inherit the earth.Yeah. I saw that. Does anyone know what happened there?
I wasn't on here for it, but apparently he was being attacked by shills and angry anons over the whole GeorgeNews drama. There are two sides to every story. So some say people were way too hard on him, others say he got too emotionally involved and went on a power trip. I'm not sure which is correct, but I'm guessing it's a little bit of both. We're all human. Evspra was always my favorite mod, so I feel protective of him.
He ended up deleting his account because of all the attacks. This is what I've pieced together, anyways. I'm getting it second hand, so hopefully someone that was on at the time will have more information.
Thanks. I really did try to figure it out but there are so many posts it becomes impossible. I liked him, he was the coolest giving us gifs, and my sweet Trumppepe. Banning shit is bad tho. I can understand stuff that makes us look bad, the n word thing, porn, spam, but banning stuff makes you not much better then youtube or Facebook. Hope he comes back
To be fair, he only banned links... But I still think that may have been a bit premature. Yes he discovered some real shady stuff on GeorgeNews, but I think way more research needed to be done before an outright ban. However, he didn't ban any discussion only links. I'm just very torn on the whole thing. I see both sides.
I'm also currently in a discussion with some other people on another thread about if Evspra's name was compromised. Evspra announced that they were retiring and stepping down, but then came back full force after barely being gone. Seemed to do a lot of cool stuff and built up a lot of credit. Then this happened. The odd thing is, I always thought Evspra was a girl. Based on writing style, but other anons said they remember Evspra saying she was a girl.
But a week ago, I saw Evspra say in the comments that he was a guy. So now I'm super confused.... Did Evspra lie? Was Evspra's name compromised? What the heck is going on??? I'm really confused by the whole thing.
It keeps being brought up that "he only banned links" but discussion was ok--honest question, though: HOW do you have a thorough discussion about something w/o being able to look at the actual info being discussed? IMHO, that effectively "bans" any meaningful discussion/debate/analysis of GN, either pro or con. It seems a bit like saying it's fine to discuss a book as a group, but you aren't allowed to tell each other where to find a copy of the book itself.
That's a good point. I feel like it was all a huge overreaction and banning it was very premature. This could have been a board-wide research project to try to get to the bottom of this. The whole thing was so odd and I saw immature/childish behaviors on BOTH sides. I think everyone needed to chill out and we all should have worked together to try to discover the truth. I can't lie that what Evspra found is VERY suspect, but I still think more information was needed before a final decision was made.
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I did find some inconsistencies in what he said, but I also found inconsistencies in george news. I was hoping to keep the discussion going so we could get to the bottom of things. There were accusations being thrown around and I feel there was something missing from a lot of the arguments. It's a shame it was ended this way.
Scared to ask. I spent 15 minutes looking through 435 george threads and couldn't figure it out. Yet I'm sure some bastards here will tell you to screw off and figure it out from the billions of posts about how george is financed by soros or whatever
this^ it's been obvious from day one that this isn't voat, and we don't have that type of freedom. lots of control and drama here. with all the name dropping and ass kissing.
the GN fiasco is a perfect example.
seriously? WHY are they still crying about it?
people have been trying to control us from all angles,
and now they know WE can SEE them for what they really are.
we should consider a victory and move on.
shills be gone, bring on the research?
Wow. That thread gave me a brain tumor
This ^
Can we get another mod to chime in and give us some clarification. This is really sus and going forward makes this place less trustworthy imo.
I am not happy. I miss him.
I hate copy and pasting but I'm gonna say it again:
In hindsight, I believe that this whole thing would have been better handled had he left out the whole banning thing.
A sticky on the front page saying "GEORGE NEWS Should not be Trusted" would have accomplished the same thing without using that term that makes everyone uncomfortable "X is hereby banned". And I stuck by him when flat earth and racism was banned.
Everyone here, or almost everyone, has been banned countless times on Reddit, Voat, and sometimes even TD for the most petty things. We've all seen what teenage and 30 year old powermods can do with no accountability and all the power the website gives them to "do the right thing", and his wording kinda gave that vibe to everyone. And shaming everyone because their spidey senses tingled isn't helping to unite the community either, OP.
I spent the past week over at NoNewNormal on Reddit and one mod decided that everyone there needed to get vaccinated and many users posted screenshots of him banning them for not wanting to take the vaccine. His defense was that he wanted to make the subreddit seem less like a conspiracy subreddit. That was the problem, not him being a lefty or a vaccine pusher, him trying to shape the subreddit in his image because he believed he was right and that he couldn't possibly be mistaken. Evspra didnt do anything close to this but I can see how it set off alarm bells in many people.
He is a good mod who just didn't read the crowd before he opened his mouth. Props to him for sticking to what he believes in. Why did he delete his account?
I agree about 90%. I think a ban was definitely out of line, but even a sticky saying "GEORGE NEWS Should Not Be Trusted" while evidence on both sides is still being presented seems to be premature. A sticky saying something like, "Is GEORGE NEWS Trustworthy?" or "Investigating the Legitimacy of GEORGE NEWS" would have been very appropriate, however. Something that causes people to consider that they may or may not be who they claim and points toward evidence from both sides so people can decide for themselves, but not a sticky that presents a final decision from the outset when there really hasn't been THAT much solid evidence presented from either side at this time. Thought-provoking--absolutely. But not irrefutable. That's a very important distinction for a topic this serious. The claims George has made are significant. He has NEVER claimed to be Q (refuted it, in fact), and he has reiterated the "no outside comms" rule himself many times, but there is enough of a "we're someone important" message that their statements need to be looked at very carefully. If they are true, it would be very helpful for us to know that. If they are NOT, then we REALLY need to know that.
Right, I also remember their livestream which was just Battle Hymn of the Republic on loop but at some important timestamp someone was buying superchats that left a sort of puzzle to be made from Q drops. I'm guilty of not looking too much into it but I remember it was something significant. I wonder if that thread has been banned?
The youtube chats are all still there, but yes, a user named youseenothing was sending donations w/messages that definitely looked like they were significant, and there was some back n forth btwn that user and George (George replied directly). I never figured out WHAT was being communicated, but it sure seemed like SOMETHING was going on. There was a theory on this board related to that wondering whether those donations were really being posted by a member of the George team (so, donating to themselves, essentially!) in order to highlight that message and draw our attention to it. No proof of that to my knowledge, but it was an interesting possibility discussed.
They have used different videos in their livestream over time, but the Battle Hymn is always part of it, and they usually use the same compilation at least a couple times. They recently posted B-roll footage of behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, etc from the 2017 inauguration. It was pretty cool if you haven't seen it yet.
Yea I think all in all the ban and drama was way too hasty and probably served our enemies more than by doing it slowly. Kinda similar to "Cucker Carlson" copy paste shills who finally after months of pushing that narrative saw Tucker slip up and dog piled him, Antifa loved that. I'm saying this even if GN and Tucker are bad actors.
Agree. Many times we would be better served by stepping back and saying, “Let’s see what happens.”
I posted this before and got no response.... Anybody have any archives of When they were on twatter? They were George@collectiveQ I tried to find material but the account is suspended. If you do a simple search on DNG the user George@collectiveQ links to George News around beginning of 2020. I find this old thread from Operation Disclosure Dated July of 2019. I thought it was interesting. Idk what to think either...just trying to add contribution to discussion.
https://operationdisclosure1.blogspot.com/2019/07/sierra-nz-congratulations-president.html?m=1
Very interesting article! Here is what I've found in terms of archives of their old twitter. Not very complete, and IIRC, according to someone who discussed it earlier in the past few days (I don't have time to wade through all that and find it ATM), this version was saved by an anon in India, thus the use of Tamil as well as English. https://web.archive.org/web/20190418154928if_/https://twitter.com/thecollectiveq
Anyway, while I tend to lean more pro-George than anti-George at this point, I'm certainly open to watching how things play out. Having watched the George phenomenon closely since it started really gaining traction in January and watching how several of the discussions were playing out both on this board and on their telegram (before they closed comments yesterday morning), it doesn't bother me AT ALL that Evspra took the time and effort to start digging into George's legitimacy--I think that was very smart. The concerns that were brought forward certainly merited investigation and discussion. However, as OP's have said, none of these concerns were conclusively damning as presented, and counter arguments and pro-George evidence should be looked at just as closely before making a judgment. This process did not feel like it was allowed to play out completely. In fact, fairly early on in the discussion, I felt like those who wanted to present pro-George evidence were really put on the defensive. The "correct" narrative had already been established at the opening of the conversation (though Ev did initially say he was open to looking at any other evidence or views--this seemed short-lived, however), so presenting an opposing view felt like an uphill battle from the start.
What probably concerned me the most, however, was the continued assertion that George just instabanned everyone who raised questions and didn't address any of the concerns people took over there. I watched a fair amount of this play out (though not all), and this is simply not correct. Some people did get banned, for whatever reasons, but a number of others were not, and George DID give reasonable answers to the various concerns. It's up to each person to decide whether those reasons are "good enough", but it's not fair or accurate to say they DID NOT ANSWER. Perhaps at least as importantly, from the discussions I saw, George's responses were consistently upbeat and positive, in contrast to the accusatory attitude with which many (though not all) of the concerns were being brought up. I will admit, I don't like how many comments ended up being deleted off their site as the day went on yesterday--some I understand, but there were others I thought could have stayed up--and I don't like that their comments appear to still be closed more than a day later. I think a positive outcome of this (ugly) discussion has been the fact that we are, as a community, taking a step back to assess the situation with GN rather than just jumping on the bandwagon or dismissing it out of hand. The truth will come out eventually, either way.
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PEACE OUT AND GOOD RIDDANCE. Even if you are not a GN person, I deprecate you for standing up for Evapra!!
That asshole acted on his feelings to censor content from us and then personally attacked us when we offered logical reasoning about why what they did was wrong. GOOD RIDDANCE.
And yes, Evspra also did go on a banning spree which is part of they reason they are gone. A group of the banned members sent messages to other mods with proof and screenshots of what happened and then Evspra’s shit got blown up. Shit mod. Commie. They are no patriot.
I don't necessarily have a clear side to take on this, but damn your name suits you. Tone it down a notch. I understand one side of the argument is protection from disinformation, and the other is an argument for unilateral free speech. Honestly, I believe that both are important, and he was clear with the direction he was taking on it. Nobody should blindly follow any information, but, I understand, he was making that decision for everyone on the forum. A regularly updated stickied post giving a warning about GN probably would have had the intended effect. But, this butthurt mob mentality is destructive. It's cancel culture. Think if how beneficial his other work on the site was. To close, he clearly said that he would be banning only the links - not people. If he was doing otherwise, and then someone made a "fuck this mod, I got banned for free speech post", I usually write those off as shills anyways, since the site TOS is straightforward, and if you don't read stickies, you're not on here to be a part of the forum.
Hey, thanks. My name is actually a reference to a tv show.
Problem is, CNN also “protects us from disinformation” and I’m fairly positive we all have a pretty cynical view of MSM choosing on our behalf what is disinfo and what isn’t to “protect us”.
Other problem is, banning of links precludes the ability to properly attribute researched content to the source, which precludes proper discussion and research of those topics in the first place.
Also, Evspra did indeed go on a ban spree yesterday. I did not get banned but a friend of mine. Part of the reason Evapra’s shit got blown up today is because the banned folks went complaining to the other mods saying they literally got banned all at once by Evspra for literally nothing and were long time members. My friend yesterday literally was banned by Evsora for posting their research in support of GN, their evidence that GN may very well be an insider.
At the end of the day, censorship and ban sprees are not what mods here are meant to do. So I stand my ground. Good riddance Evspra. Abusive Reddit-style mod.
I don't know, but I just got done sending a message...a couple weeks ago I had a question about family and friends that got deleted because of "low effort"??? This board would be a real help to "patriots", but censorship is counter-productive!
Yes, I don’t know if GN is legit or not but I enjoyed the vids they were posting that I probably wouldn’t have seen any other way. Every little red pill helps and what if the mod was wrong in their assessment? That hurts us on both sides. Let people make their own judgements. I’m sus of this site bc I’m seeing history from other bad subs repeating itself.
C.O.M.P.R.O.M.I.S.E.D???
No, hes still listed as a mod.