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Here is a very simple question

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I search the internet for uncensored web hosting and occasionally I find one claiming to be censer free but the problem is every single site that I find has a acceptable user policy and Terns of service the purpose of these two things in a nut shell is to tell you what you can and can not do, Now my question is how do you have a censer free web host if they are telling you what you can and can not do I have been trying to figure that one out for years
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Because every service has to have some form of Terms of Service, especially when there are some people who may use their services to host content that is outright illegal or otherwise will give them legal problems. Freedom of expression has never been - nor ever will be - absolute. Even here in the United States, there are things that can come out of your mouth that are not legal, such as death threats, and the same thing is true for content that is posted online.
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There are laws.
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You could always buy your own server then you can do whatever you want with it - and risk the consequences.
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Random American wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:04 pm Because every service has to have some form of Terms of Service, especially when there are some people who may use their services to host content that is outright illegal or otherwise will give them legal problems. Freedom of expression has never been - nor ever will be - absolute. Even here in the United States, there are things that can come out of your mouth that are not legal, such as death threats, and the same thing is true for content that is posted online.
Then it is not censer free censorship is censorship you ether do it or you do not.
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You’ve pretty much answered your own question I think?
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Methen wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:09 pm
Random American wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:04 pm Because every service has to have some form of Terms of Service, especially when there are some people who may use their services to host content that is outright illegal or otherwise will give them legal problems. Freedom of expression has never been - nor ever will be - absolute. Even here in the United States, there are things that can come out of your mouth that are not legal, such as death threats, and the same thing is true for content that is posted online.
Then it is not censer free censorship is censorship you ether do it or you do not.
It's more like the concept of free speech here in the United States. It is real - for the most part - but for practical reasons, it can never be absolute, even the so called "free speech absolutists" normally support some limits.
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david63 wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:07 pm You could always buy your own server then you can do whatever you want with it - and risk the consequences.
That is true and that is something I would love to do But sadly that requires Three things that I do not
have,
!Money
2 a place to set up
3 and know how
None of which I have
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Methen wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:13 pm
david63 wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:07 pm You could always buy your own server then you can do whatever you want with it - and risk the consequences.
That is true and that is something I would love to do But sadly that requires Three things that I do not
have,
!Money
2 a place to set up
3 and know how
None of which I have
Life is just full of compromises :o
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You know I wager that if someone were to ever sit up a truly censer free web hosting company and have the power to back it up they end up being one of the richest company's on the planet and put most of the other web hosting company's out of business.
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Methen wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:13 pm
david63 wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:07 pm You could always buy your own server then you can do whatever you want with it - and risk the consequences.
That is true and that is something I would love to do But sadly that requires Three things that I do not
have,
!Money
2 a place to set up
3 and know how
None of which I have
You can buy a regular computer and turn it into a server. Install XAMPP on it which installs php and other essential server languages. You can install phpBB on it and if you tweak the settings (to allow public access) and ensure your IP is static and associated with a domain name (ie. example.com), you can have any site you host on it be public. Or you can forgo a domain and just type your IP address in, though it's not ideal to just have links to your site be your IP address. You're going to have to worry about security though.

While they're not public (by choice), I have three phpBB localhost boards on my computer right now.
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Random American wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:24 pm <snip>
You can install phpBB on it and if you tweak the settings (to allow public access) and ensure your IP is static and associated with a domain name (ie. example.com), you can have any site you host on it be public.
<snip>
... if your isp allows you do do it, most do not
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Random American wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:24 pm
Methen wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:13 pm That is true and that is something I would love to do But sadly that requires Three things that I do not
have,
!Money
2 a place to set up
3 and know how
None of which I have
You can buy a regular computer and turn it into a server. Install XAMPP on it which installs php and other essential server languages. You can install phpBB on it and if you tweak the settings (to allow public access) and ensure your IP is static and associated with a domain name (ie. example.com), you can have any site you host on it be public. Or you can forgo a domain and just type your IP address in, though it's not ideal to just have links to your site be your IP address. You're going to have to worry about security though.

While they're not public (by choice), I have three phpBB localhost boards on my computer right now.
Yea I know all that the problems with that is it would support a bunch of people and you have to have a
special internet connection that balances the upload and download connection I have done a lot of research on it
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HiFiKabin wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:27 pm
Random American wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:24 pm <snip>
You can install phpBB on it and if you tweak the settings (to allow public access) and ensure your IP is static and associated with a domain name (ie. example.com), you can have any site you host on it be public.
<snip>
... if your isp allows you do do it, most do not
That would be no problem and I heard most have no problems
as long as they are getting paid that is all they care about.
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Thinking about it there are tons of NSFW and none PC websites about so there has to be some hosts that aren’t concerned with content. There’s also the darknet, maybe you could investigate that? Unfortunately darknet content isn’t indexed and usually needs a bit of nouse to use it.
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