<story><title>Hosteurope.de shut down our servers due to “political incorrectness”</title><url>https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/146757</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tetrep</author><text>Regardless of how the hosting provider feels about the content they&amp;#x27;re hosting, it&amp;#x27;s very unprofessional to terminate a contract so absolutely with no warning. They could have easily given the site a few days, if not weeks, to migrate to another service, but they instead chose to immediately kill not just the hosts of voat.co but all of the hosts under the account, which included an entirely unrelated blog with scientific papers.&lt;p&gt;I find it scary that so many commenters find this to be a natural course of action for a hosting provider to take. A hosting provider caring about what I host, other than whether or not it&amp;#x27;s legal, is just as absurd as my ISP caring about what packets I send (once again, other than the legality of them). While a hosting provider&amp;#x27;s role isn&amp;#x27;t nearly as &amp;quot;utility&amp;quot; as an ISP, it&amp;#x27;s certainly close and I would be appalled if the majority of hosting providers actually took stances like this. A minority is to be expected, no different than a book publisher only publishing Christian books, but if the average book publisher was expected to publish only Christian books, I would be quite frightened.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hosteurope.de shut down our servers due to “political incorrectness”</title><url>https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/146757</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danko</author><text>For those who need the context -- when Reddit had that big bust-up last week about banning subreddits like &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;fatepeoplehate, aggrieved commenters were recommending that others migrate to voat.co.  That effectively means that voat.co recently absorbed the slimy runoff of Reddit&amp;#x27;s worst element.&lt;p&gt;Given that, it isn&amp;#x27;t wholly surprising that their hosting service wanted no part of them.</text></comment>