Was anyone aware of this? Do we know where this site was hosted? Does this have anything to do with the new regulations to silence the media over in Europe? Inquiring minds want to know.
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There are ways to solve these sort of things.
As in the case of VOAT itself, our community willingness to support it, were not enough. But back then we did not have every solution there is now available.
And .... even worse than in the case of VOAT, searchvoat was simply pulled. No announcement, nothing. When asked I am sure we could come up with some ideas and support.
For instance: ARWEAVE allows for any website to be on the blockchain: immutable, and for as long as there is energy. Even if the total of the site is 2000Gigs, it would have been possible to get it on there for a one off payment. Legal jeopardy means nothing then.
And that would have been a huge middle finger to the Deep State. Fuck their censorship. Beaten by blockchain. Such is its power.
So, if there is any option to do so, I think it is worth it to preserve searchvoat, especially the Greatawakening and QRV.
But I guess we can always ask No Such Agency for their backups?
Maybe someone could start with the treeview of archives on wayback?
https://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/Searchvoat.co
Surely there’s a way to scrape those pages, build an indexer/search engine, then put that on ARWEAVE as you suggest.
I’m sure it’s an effort but maybe not an unreasonably hard open source one?
If you want to add content, you need the original page and work from there. It could have been done, if a Request for Change had been issued prior to removal. Then a community effort could have been setup, a pitch in, buy the arweave tokens, and upload the sections we need. It would not change much to the layout of the site when the limit is: Greatawakening & QRV.
As it were, the site operator should have considered the risks that were mounting since 2015, especially during Covid.
As searchvoat.co now is a static site, there are a lot of options.
This is not the first rodeo, I have been confronted with. But years of effort, research and interactions: gone.
Partir, the French saying goes,est toujour un peut mourir.But in all three cases, I have seen stubborn resistance to any solution by the site operator (s), and feels like: if I won;t then nobody will. Poef! Gone!
The same applied here on GAW. SO if you want to save something, now is the time!
Partir, c’est mourir un peu, c’est mourir à ce qu’on aime ("To leave is to die a little, it is to die to what one loves")