COPBLOCK.org ALERT – Help support server upgrade cost

As more people become attune to the fact that badges don’t grant extra rights, traffic and interactions here at CopBlock.org and throughout the growing global network have grown.

In January 2010, Cop Block started on Tumblr, and the site received possibly a few hundred views a month. In May of 2014, Copblock.org will net 350,000+ visits and 500,000+ pageviews.

Much love for trouble-shooting and addressing tech-related growing pains goes to our friends at Liberty Web Alliance (LWA). The gent most-involved there is someone myself and Ademo Freeman have known and been working with in a similar capacity since 2009.

Also, much thanks goes out to a handful of other folks from the network on the same wavelength with tech skills, who’ve assisted LWA, thus maximizing our ability to facilitate the free exchange of ideas and concepts, such as badges don’t grant extra rights, no victim no crime, coercive interactions versus consensual interactions, the initiation of force versus the defensive use of force, and of self-ownership and self-government.

Currently CopBlock.org exists on a shared server with only 4 GB of memory. Considering our tremendous growth in the past few months, we found it necessary to transition to an enterprise-level dedicated server. This new server has 64 GB of memory and should serve us well into the future.

In order to get the best deal, we’re paying for a year up-front. If you have the means and interest, there are many ways you can help to help offset costs:

• donate via PayPal: http://libertyweballiance.com/power-us/
• donate via Bitcoin: 1DD54VKWovF783992aiQ1YGaebDQyPMUQe
• if you buy at Amazon.com click-through CopBlock.org/Amazon/ and the 3-6% of the total sale that comes back to us is allocated specifically to address IT costs

Just to give you an idea of the bang-for-your-FRN – if you donate 32-FRNs that would keep CopBlock.org online for one week (server hosting + Cloudflare at ~5-FRNs/week).

The decentralized nature of this project has been a catalyst for this conversation.

We are better off when the court of public opinion hinges not on one version of events – a press release crafted by colleagues of the aggressor, but when information flows freely.

documentation by video cameras force accountability upon aggressors, and persuades those yet unvictimized by institutionalized violence to withdraw their allegiance and support from such abusive practices.

The increase in traffic to Cop Block outlets, including the Facebook page (which grew from 60,000 “Likes” in December, 2013 to 600,000 “Likes” in May, 2014) and CopBlock.org can be attributed to a number of factors. Key to that has been looping-in some solid folks who help create and share content.

In an effort to have a non-Facebook way to continue interaction with those who have an affinity, should Facebook or its friends restrict or censor that functionality, we recently launched the CopBlock.org Weekly Email.

If you have the means and interest to help offset IT costs of CopBlock.org:

• donate via PayPal: [email protected]
• donate via Bitcoin: 1DD54VKWovF783992aiQ1YGaebDQyPMUQe
• if you buy at Amazon.com click-through CopBlock.org/Amazon/ and the 3-6% of the total sale that comes back to us is allocated specifically to address IT costs

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