Voat.co servers shut down due to politically incorrect content

Voat.co has been in the news a lot lately thanks to a huge exodus of redditors that swamped the site in response to censorship on Reddit. Now Voat.co itself has been hit with an unexpected server shutdown because of content on the site that was deemed politically incorrect by the site’s hosting company.

The site is up and running though thanks to a fortuitous move to a cloud platform hours before the shutdown happened.

Atko reports in an announcement thread on Voat.co:

Our hosting provider, hosteurope.de has terminated all our contracts and shut down all our servers without issuing a warning or trying to talk to us. This includes my private server which was only used to host my girlfriends blog. She is a scientist. She published her research papers on that blog (pre-formatted papers to which she owns the copyright). That server contained no other data whatsoever.

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