https://archive.ph/aIUSE

(The .net link was working fine for several weeks until yesterday.)

503 Yet Again

Hello,

Zayo, our ISP, has suddenly discontinued service.

This is because Blake Willis, a 20 year senior network engineer in the company's Paris HQ, is friends with Liz Fong-Jones - a former Google employee associated with Trans LifeLine charity directors who were removed for inurement, and who was also recently accused of sexual assault.

I have appealed this decision but absolutely nothing will happen until Monday.

If you use Zayo, I ask that you express your concerns with your account manager. This decision was made after a year of trying to get my service established, after 12 hours of hosting with them, without specific violation of their AUP, without talking to me, and without any accomodation of my move to another ISP.

Zayo, being a major Internet service provider, unilaterally severing service because of content moderation policies is a dramatic and dangerous precedent - the latest in a series of dangerous precedents being set by big companies - in an attempt to destroy our community and the information on our website, and at the expense of freedom of information and freedom of expression.

My options at this datacenter are Cogent and HE. They are very large companies and I'm sure they have their own Blake Willis and mentally ill people trying to censor the Internet. So, I am not confident in simply moving over to them.

There are many options available, but I wanted to keep my US legal company and US legal website on the public Internet in the United States, where it belongs.

If you are involved in the industry and want to reach out, please do so. The enemies of free expression are tightly knit, working together, and openly flaunting their nepotism on social media. People wanting the Internet to stay an open platform must work together.

See you soon, Josh jcmoon@pm.me https://t.me/s/kiwifarms/

P.S., in Blake's internal emails, he threatens "Several of my industry colleagues have escalated this to me tonight, as I pack my suitcase to fly to Belgrade early tomorrow morning for next week's RIPE meeting, where this issue will certainly come up..."

So, if you happen to be in Belgrade this week for RIPE85, Blake will be there fielding questions on behalf of Zayo. It may be a good time to social network for freer networks.