Moving to Substack

 

To readers of the Cleveland Tea Party blog:

Starting today, this blog re-introduces itself on its new Substack platform.  For about two weeks thereafter, the blogs will post concurrently on this site as well as on Substack, to give readers time to update their “favorites” list.

Substack has attracted many posters, including high-profile contributors such as Dr Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Matt Taibbi, and Salman Rushdie. Many of these contributors have been censored or marginalized for questioning official narratives, challenging government policies, and the like.  When I visit these pages, I do not find critical content labeled as “misinformation.”

The Cleveland Tea Party blog is a small fish in the blogosphere, yet it has been censored as well.  Three times, there’s been a noticeable and otherwise inexplicable spike in web traffic; the spike lasts for a few days, and as far as I can tell, only a deliberate testing and manipulation of the algorithms can explain the phenomenon.  And in all three cases, when the numbers are no longer artificially inflated, the traffic reverts to approximately half of the previous averages.  After three such episodes, the most recent being in May, instead of getting hundreds of hits a day, it’s rare to get over 100 in a day.  It does seem to be a pattern.

Some readers have asked why they cannot find this blog doing an e-search:  they report getting links to a robot about tea-drinkers.

So we’ll be maintaining both sites for a couple of weeks before closing down the blogspot site.  The new Cleveland Tea Party at Substack is here. 

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