nothing what I said is anything like your wacky version of it. "help I'm being oppressed" 

I want to point out a few things for clarity and to help with this discussion:

1) This is not about SF hosting. They can hook up to their cable modem at home and host their website. It's about routing to it through DNS. Currently that is the critical piece of the puzzle. DNS is like the phone book. You type in a name versus the IP address. This is critical because even in today's hosting world, servers can have dynamic IPs. Still doesnt make sense? Ok so new ARFCOM hosting gives us random IPs per server as we put them up (and take them down). We have an outside IP to route traffic through, but old days was 1 static IP per server. So if you don't have a constant name to go to (AR15.COM) then it's about knowing the IP to the server.

2) ICANN is responsible for names. It used to be government run because we built the internet and owned it. Obama gave it to the world because not being government meant no more restrictions on how they could act. This was a step towards shutting down those who have different or "harmfull" opinions and voices. The mere fact that it has been only about 2 years? (3?) and we are seeing this unfold is crazy. There may be some rules in place (system rules) which are blocking another transfer attempt for their domain, but a failure/rejection to transfer is not a transfer and should not be subject to the hold on transferring. So in short, we could be led to believe they have been hijacked when indeed it's just horrid luck of being caught in a technical rule because of transfer rejections. These company's have the right to reject transfer to them, I wont argue that, but the lock down is wrong and if it was a technicality, should be fixed so that in the future this doesnt happen to others.

3) As the ARFCOM turns. I try to have plans within plans within plans for our survival. By this I mean we will find a way to exist as a site. It may be we move to the dark side, it may be we run the site from the corner of the net with a satellite hijack shitty connection. WE WILL find a way to keep people talking. Even if I die tomorrow, someone else will have copies to the files and be able to bring it to life. That does not mean every plan can't be hit at once and snuff the life out of this place, but we have planned for the worst since NY went full commie and we high tailed to Texas.

4) The net is more complex than you think. Even if this site was up and running and hosted, states/companies could filter it out and block your access. The internet is a bunch of tubes, tubes that need to go through states and connecting points owned by enemies. If they are allowed to redirect or block traffic to things you care about, that's entirely in their hands. Al Gore invented it and he can damn well do with it as he wishes!

5) Freedom of speech cannot exist if we turn our heads when it's someone or something we detest. It's all or nothing. DU, ARFCOM, STORMFRONT, ANTIFA, NFL, NASA, SPACEX, RECIPE WEBSITES are all the same. Voices which should never be silenced. It's one thing to call for the killing of folks (that specific thing should be punished) and it's another to not allow them to speak at all. If we can silence one, we can silence any. To show appreciation for a silenced voice is to root for your own voice to be removed.

6) The ALT-LEFT labels anyone who opposes them as the most vile and evil things they can for a reason. ANTIFA is anti facism right? So how is it they employ facism to fight so called "facism"? The key is to rile up your side with cries of "ASSAULT WEAPONS", versus using the truth. In the end "semi automatic weapon" is still scary to some, but not as bad as "ASSAULT WEAPONS!" So now anyone who isn't found to be leftist enough, including many middle road leftists, are lumped into the pile of enemies who are Nazi's, Racists, and Sexists.

It's no longer enough for us to defend everyone's rights, as most of us here would do, it's now about survival when they come for you bit by bit. Like it or not, you are a sexist racist nazi to many folks on the left. Since scare tactics work to gather up the sheep, that's what they are doing. These sheep are allowing wolves in their midsts, to eliminate all other wolves. This ensures that when they are the only ones standing, they can have their way.

Most of us value freedom and want the constitution to apply to every citizen. We dont want to silence the left, the alt-left, or the alt-right. We see a land where our forefathers died to create a beacon of hope and liberty for all. It's just becoming more obvious that we are the last of those who believe this anymore. Your average Joe no longer cares. They just want their kids to not ride the bench at school, get an A like everyone else, take the same "advanced" classes as everyone else, get free college to put them on par with everyone else, and have the same job and pay as everyone else, regardless of them earning it. It's time to collect on the participation trophy of life and if not, then I will use facist tactics to silence you, all the while calling you a facist and symbol of evil.

This is the point. Their name provider is freezing them out of DNS records and not allowing them access to it. It may be a technicality or it may be intentional. As of right now, everything points to it being intentional, including what involved parties have said about it.

It's not that simple. ICANN used to be government entity in Cali which was responsible for the entire world wide internet. In short, we controlled the internet since we created it. When they pushed Net Neutrality, they put in to free ICANN from being a government run entity and Obama handed out keys to the world community. Now it's a "private" non-profit entity (I assume they kept non-profit status) responsible for the same thing. So again, it could come down to a technical flagging which is causing their lock down, but with the players involved, the timing involved, and the politics of the day, it looks more and more like they did this on purpose to freeze them out. Even if they allow them back in a few months and call it an "oops," it still looks intentional. While many of the hardcore net guys (4chan, anonymous, etc) disagree on good and evil causes, the freedom of the net is universally protected. All of these groups feel information and freedom are key and this does not sit well with them. It's an ugly situation and even if it was not intention and a true "technicality", it has brought all our fears to the forefront.

This is the future of the internet and why 2/3 years ago ICANN was moved out of the government owned space. With net neutrality came the ability to censor and control the internet. Everyone said, it would never happen and here is the first real shot across our bow. Maybe they think since most people hate this fringe group right now it will be ignored, but it definitely has all the key internet groups paying attention.