The (not so) Secret History of FreeRepublic.com
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I posted at FR since 2002, but no one ever realized it because my first account was banned in 2004 during the run-up to the election. I posted as Republican_Strategist and what led to me being summarily banned was my opposition to George W. Bush based on his big spending, presciption drug coverage, and overall expansion of the Government. Nevermind the fact I was also posting threads about Kerry’s dubious military service and so forth. I was banned without warning and served a “Zot!” for daring to question George W. Bush during the election.
I joined again in late 2005 as Conservative Coulter Fan after a long cooling off period and despite my many threads including opposition to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and many other threads that attest to my ardent, conservatives views, I dared to question Palin as the candidate on June 2, 2011 with a vanity question. I said that there was a cult of personality surrounding Palin, I made the huge mistake of pointing out her allowing her daughter to carry on a sexual relation and have a child out of wedlock with Levi Johnston, and finally that she had just abandoned her post as Governor of Alaska. I ended by telling them they would hate me for it and “Let the hate begin.” And they did. Within minutes there were over 100 comments and many of them were hateful, they said I wasn’t a conservative, and before I could reply to anything…wham! One of the moderators revoked my ability to post/reply and the this is the reason given “Reason: Troll.” I wasn’t some newbie. I was a diehard conservative on both fiscal issues and social issues, but all of a sudden I’m a “troll,” because I suggested Michele Bachmann was better than an inflated celebrity…the Momma Grizzly that has some screwed up family values and can’t even finish her job as Governor, but does a bus tour and a reality show.
If they will turn on a conservative like me…they’ll turn on anyone.
Thanks for mentioning the FRAM Report in your write-up. The Society for the Prevention of Anti-Mormonism has been watching FR for a couple of years now. On January 3, 2011, I wrote about the purge of anyone on the FR site who stuck up for the Mormon religion amid the hundreds of new anti-Mormon posts each year. You might want to add that to your list of “purges” because it took out a significant number of Mormon conservatives and alienated them politically. Here’s the write-up with JimRob’s own statements about it:
http://www.examiner.com/lds-church-in-national/anti-mormon-purge-coming-on-free-republic
I just got the boot for pointing out that Palin used the conservatives to make money while leading us to believe she was running. They used the excuse that I used profanity for saying they could KMA.
IMO, FR is one of the most hateful sites on the internet. I can’t believe they haven’t been shut down. The comments regarding Mitt Romney, now that he’s the GOP frontrunner, are disgusting, so say the least. Jim Robinson should be ashamed of himself.
There are many more sites that make FR look like LoveHippyLand.com now, but I fully expect JimRob to fall in line behind Mitt when he wins the nomination and begin banning people who were screaming for Mitt’s head days before.
free republic is going off the tracks
I got banned last night in a discussion over Ron Pauls “honest Rape comment because I supported abortion in cases involving rape .I’m pro life but I despise the anti abortion crazies that insist that rape victim should carry to term as much as I do the nazis at planned parenthood ….look for another purge soon
I agree with you Kim, I am not even Mormon, but I can say that the stereotyping about Romney’s religion is absurd, when there’s plenty to be said about him as a person, and as a politician. No need to stereotype, or run some “all Mormons are evil” talk. Either way, I was banned back in 2004 for reasons I have yet to fathom, I tried again in 2006 to find some interest, but it was beginning to become honestly clear that the whole site was in a downward spiral that just couldn’t be reversed.
I figure though, that hopefully the nut by the name of Jim Rob just gets his act together, and just asks for a little unity behind whomever gets nominated, even if it’s Romney. He’s hopefully going to at least do that, like he did with Bush and McCain.
You forgot one other purge…
You have the anti-birther purge. Now, if you go there and say that Obama has actually proven that he’s born in the United States and dare to go against the birther paradox that has overtaken FR, you get zotted (and called an O-Bot, despite disagreeing with Obama on every issue).
Honestly, FR is basically gets out of reality quite frequently. And if you try to put reality back into the discussion, you get zotted and banned.
Now they are banning people who oppose their suicidal “I’m not voting for Romney to punish the GOP” attitudes. I had an account created in 2000 and it makes my skin crawl how self-congratulatory they all are over their super clever plan to get back at the Republicans. Dumbasses.
FR and JimRob are now anti-Bush again, too. Just par for the course.
If you check out the thread on, “Women’s Right to Vote, the Beginning of the End for America?”, you will find a great discussion about whether or not women should lose their right to vote.
I remember it because I talked about it on a women’s site a few years ago. From what I understand, a freeper named OneVike wrote an article for a blog he has where he asked if giving women the right to vote was the beginning of the end for America. Here is the index link, (“http://209.157.64.200/tag/*/index?more=2217732) I found via Google search.
You will see that it had well over 12,000 freepers view the article and over 500 comments which from what I have been told is quite a good thread for them.
You might want to list it as one of the moments that freerepublic showed it’s true colors on the rights of women. Here we are in the year 2012, and freepers think women should not be able to vote.
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