by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:

For Independent Media,we know we hit a nerve when attacks against the website increases exponentially and come from a variety of directions, which is something we here at ANP have experienced over the last two weeks.

Porn spammers increased by well over 95 percent, keeping us very busy blocking, banning, and deleting throughout the days and evenings. At some points multiple threads were hit with a series of comments all in the same minute, indicating someone set off some type of bot attack against the website.

Then came the “bad browser”  attacks shown to us by Cloudfare, (kind of a default nickname for unspecified ‘threats’), which shows nearly 2,500 “threats” were mitigated over the last week, with more than a thousand in a one day period. Normal numbers average about 100+ a day.

Then this morning we became aware of a different type of attack, different in the manner of it, but not the source, being big tech. We, and others, have documented the consistent censorship of Independent Media by big tech, including social media platforms, and the downranking Independent Media via search results, the demonetization of video content, the removal/blocking of prominent conservatives from search auto-populate functions….. generally anything they can do to limit exposure to any narrative other than what the preferred liberal narrative they want spread.

This morning I was contacted by a reader that sent me the following message: “Just remembered; can you get the web page changed to allow sharing the stories on at least Twitter? The format s/b as automated as possible to allow the tweet icon by each story w opening the tweet; once tweeted, close the tweet box to allow continued reading. Thank you. I remembered because you changed the format to NOT allow tweeting the stories; so I put the news icon aside because I tweet most different stories and I had liked your company reporting.”

Boy did that open a can of worms because as I explained to the reader, we never changed the format and do have share buttons, including Twitter, on every single page, right above the headline on article pages and in the top right corner of all pages, article, menu and main pages.

He thanked me, provided screen shots of what he was seeing, using his Firefox/Mozilla browser, one from the main page and one from an article page….. where no sharing icons were visible.

He also informed me he used to read and share our articles all the time, but he stopped when he thought we changed the format and removed the sharing option.

NOTE: Word of mouth and having articles shared is critical to the health of a website, without readers spreading the truth; 1) Less people become awakened and; 2) Revenue generation decreases, making it difficult to sustain an online presence.

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