wikileaks links

I read in a post that we cannot link to wikileaks. Is that true, and if so why?

a reply to: D8Tee

The short answer is because ATS has an advertising contract with Google, and of course you know Google is owned by the reptilian overlords that won't share their free energy with us.

a reply to: D8Tee

Springer explains here
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OUR OFFICIAL POSITION

The ATS staff has completed a long discussion regarding removing the block on links to WikiLeaks, which included reaching out to our hosting provider. The primary reason we disallowed links previously (and often the driving-force for many of our policies) is that such links to the types of materials hosted on WikiLeaks would be a technical violation of our Acceptable Use Policy with our provider. And to further make this issue more sensitive with our provider, they took heat a few years back for hosting WikiLeaks mirrors.

Lots of "conspiracy sites" can overcome such restrictions because their providers are either less stringent, or have no such restrictions at all. Given the scale of our traffic, and the need for high-end hardware and network, pretty much every hosting provider capable of providing what we need will have similar (or identical) restrictions. It's the unfortunate conundrum in which ATS lives... moving to another host isn't an option.

Our policy remains the same, unfortunately. But back when this first became an issue, we urged members to find other sites, sources, blogs, etc. that covered the WikiLeaks material they wanted to include in their post -- then link to those sites, with an explanation of where to find the links once there. That remains the best course of action for now

Information found here:
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Basically there been controlled to only push what the fat cats want or not to push what they don't want weird