[Tejas Rob]

Is something like this why Freerepublic had to move?

[dynachrome]

“why Freerepublic had to move?”

No. see here:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3906145/posts?page=39#39

“Doubtful. It’s a huge company and we’ve been with them for 20 years. I doubt they’d close a major data center and build a new one just to get rid of us.”

[palmer]

No, FR was not deplatformed. Their provider moved physical locations.

Also FR is self-hosted, so they can only be dehosted, not deplatformed. The important difference is that they can take their SW and backups to a new host in 12 hours as we just saw.