This is sad news, as Voice of Europe was a primary source for news about the jihad in Europe. That’s precisely why Google, Facebook, and Twitter targeted it for destruction. And they won’t stop with Voice of Europe. They’re determined to silence all of us, and their endeavor is well on its way to success, with virtually no pushback from anyone. The freedom of speech and free society as a whole is on the brink, but the people being targeted and destroyed have already been smeared to the degree that no one wants to spring to their defense and get tarred in the same way.
“Farewell,” by Arthur Lyons, Voice of Europe, June 22, 2020:
Dear Followers,
The editorial staff at Voice of Europe’s regrets to inform you, our readers, that we will be ceasing our news publishing operations indefinitely. Our decision, of course, comes with the heaviest of hearts and follows months of increased censorship from Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Furthermore, our ability to monetize our content, which had already been greatly diminished as a result of the virus’s economic effects, was recently taken away completely when our ad platforms banned us outright. Unfortunately, we do not receive nearly enough financial support from you, the readers, to cover the costs of our operation. For all of these reasons, we’ve decided to end Voice of Europe.
Like you, we at Voice of Europe are also deeply concerned about the dark place that our society seems to be headed. We have clearly entered a time where sharing facts which aren’t in line with the mainstream narrative is no longer tolerated.
We are grateful for the support that you’ve shown us over the years.
Farewell.
simpleton1 says
They pulled the curtain open on a quite a few truths with great succinct reports.
Another way of how war is declared on “western civilisation”,
mortimer says
Google, Facebook, and Twitter have prostituted facts, logic and reality in order to gain revenues.
They have no respect ‘true facts’ … they are now allowing ONE-SIDED MESSAGES to dominate the internet. ONE-SIDED MESSAGES is the definition of PROPAGANDA.
J Morgan says
Sad and tragic. We must stand against this form of censorship. Trump is fighting this fight. Vote Trump.
maria says
Yes, we must fight and we will win. And we do our best to get President Trump to be elected again
owensgate says
This is how “Democracy” dies. Not with a Bang, but with a whimper. I have not previously heard of “Voice of Europe”, but it’s obvious they must have been doing SOMETHING right. I do not want a “Mother” on the Web telling me what is good or dangerous for me, especially when they call TRUTH a Lie, and Lies they call Truth. May Lightning strike their servers and wipe them ALL out.
Ade Fegan says
They must have been pretty badly shadow banned anyway
for us not to have heard of them
LB says
VoE was frequently reblogged here on JW and I was a regular reader since several years ago when I first saw one of their articles here. Sad to see it go this way, but understandable since it wasn’t financially viable to maintain the site. I just hope JihadWatch won’t meet the same fate, then we’re really doomed…
EdSays says
They have sided with the enemies of the U.S. What does that make them?
.Bridgette says
People didn’t fund them. Nothing runs for free.
gravenimage says
The problem is more their being deplatformed.
mortimer says
The problem is that TRUTH, FACTS and LOGIC do not depend on POPULARITY.
There may be one person alive who knows the truth. If his findings can be verified by others, then he will eventually receive a hearing.
There are many heroes who have declared the truth against all odds and eventually, they have been vindicated.
We in the Counterjihad are voices crying in the wilderness. But we are making some small victories, while BIG TECH is part of the RED-GREEN AXIS OF EVIL.
BIG TECH BILLIONAIRES are actually not ‘Marxist’ or ‘Leftist’ at all, since they are Globalist-FASCISTS … a consortium of sold-out politicians, billionaires and oil-emirates.
Ade Fegan says
Suppose the left manage to shut down all honest sources of information about islam
The only hope we would have left is that islam could self destruct
Daunting
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
What is Trump doing? Why isn’t this being stopped?
gravenimage says
Facebook and Twitter are private companies. Government censorship might be even worse than what is going on now.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
You have got to be kidding me. You’re saying if the government stepped in to stop Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg from crushing non-Muslim people’s rights to speech, then that would somehow offend your “zero government” sensibilities?
Wow, it must be so great and cosy for yoy, back there in 2010…
gravenimage says
Rob, surely you must realize that government censorship is more onerous in places like Europe against Anti-Jihadists than are private companies. As appalling as the censorship from Facebook and Twitter are, so you really think that handing this over to an entity that can ban people from travelling, fine, or imprison them is better? (These are all things that Britain has indeed done to Anti-Jihadists):
“US bloggers banned from entering UK”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-23064355
“Video: Paul Weston on the Orwellian Jailing of Tommy Robinson”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/05/video-paul-weston-on-the-orwellian-jailing-of-tommy-robinson
“Jayda Fransen Found Guilty Of Speech ‘Stirring Up Hatred’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/jayda-fransen-found-guilty-of-speech-stirring-up-hatred
There are, sadly, many more.
Trump might act to protect Anti-Jihadists, but if the office of the president–or that of the British prime minister–had the power to dictate what companies may or may not publish, how do you think this would be used by a Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama? How about a Jeremy Corbyn?
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Graven, can you do me a favour and just not respond to any more of my posts please?
x says
Why? Are you afraid of a contrary opinion?
gravenimage says
Rob, I concur with you on most points.
This is a public forum–people reply to each other all the time.
But if you’d prefer I can cite your comments indirectly–but in most cases I will be agreeing with you.
LB says
Yeah I wonder about that too. Both Jack (twitter) and Zuck (facebook) were on Congress hearing about censorship a year or two ago. Also, Trump recently had an “alternative news” press conference where some banned right-wing individuals were invited. He even signed an executive order related to social media censorship after some of his tweet were flagged as “inflammatory” and “misinformative”. And yet, after all that, nothing happened. It’s censorship as usual for the Silicon Valley leftist corporations. I don’t know how to feel about this….
DH says
Perhaps one day idiot’s will own the whole internet and a board of bitter, lonely communists will control when you can take a shit, but since that hasn’t happened here’s a story about Islam’s “secret” past that is still relevant today:
Some Islamic scholars will say the “Golden Age of Islam” ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258. However honest Muslims, beyond Google’s reach, will tell you it was the resurgence of “old school” Islam that ended every single Muslim’s last chance at a normal life:
“But the Islamic turn away from scholarship actually preceded the civilization’s geopolitical decline — it can be traced back to the rise of the anti-philosophical Ash’arism school among Sunni Muslims, who comprise the vast majority of the Muslim world.”
“In its place arose the anti-rationalist Ash’ari school whose increasing dominance is linked to the decline of Arabic science. With the rise of the Ash’arites, the ethos in the Islamic world was increasingly opposed to original scholarship and any scientific inquiry that did not directly aid in religious regulation of private and public life.”
If you’re interested in philosophy and Islamic history then you might want to read the whole article that are the source of my quotes:
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science
TimothyS says
As gates of Vienna site says, this is the new digital Samizdat. We do not operate by saturation, but hand to hand dialectical combat.
Demonetization is only the beginning. Other sites have dns registries turn on them, possibly forcing them onto unlisted onion sites.
Wear attacks as a badge of honor. The most targeted tend to be most intelligent and cogent writers.De-platforming is a part of dehumanizing since the vicious rhetoric is carried on the public sphere while the truth-tellers are rendered silent.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
One of the main goals of many jihad –minded Muslims is the Islamic conquest of the nations of Europe. One of the methods of achieving Muslin object by not necessary by the means of the violent and deadly “militant” jihad but by the subtle, sly, subversive and insidious way of engaging in that which is known as the stealth jihad. This type of jihad for the advancement and control of Islam in the European countries is to infiltrate into, as in gain, access to, the governmental institutions of the nations of Europe.
This is a large and great part of the grand scheme of stealth jihadist agenda to enhance and gain strong and then stronger influence and then supreme control of Islam over the whole continent of Europe. As on scholar on Islam and the Muslim zeal -filled intentions for Islam had revealed that “Of all the continents of the World, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategists who are seeking world dominance…” [1] of course ,this author means “world dominance. , Not for those specific Muslim themselves but “world dominance for Islam.” Likewise, another scholar r and expert on this subject wrote exposed that “Since the stealth jihad is more advance in Europe then in the United States, the situation there is more dire….Muslims are accomplishing today what they have tried but failed to do for over a millennium : conquer Europe.” [2] Most intelligent people will well understand that “As Europe goes so will in time, go North America.
Further, about this Muslim scheme of the stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism to enact Sharia law in many different countries of Europe is in contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
In addition, those scheming stealth jihadist /Muslims who attempt to have Sharia law set up in the countries of Europe do also engage in the doctrine of the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya which is very insidious. Taqyyia is the jihad dogma that deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam. Nevertheless, the God of the Bible “condemns those who devise wicked schemes…” Proverbs 12:11. [N.I.V.] Likewise, Proverbs 12:20 teaches “Deceit is in the hearts of those plot evil.”
[1] How Islam Plans to Change the World by Willian Wagner , page 195.
[2] STEALTH JIHAD by Robert Spencer , page 270.
gravenimage says
Google, Facebook, Twitter censorship kills Voice of Europe site
……………
More shutting down of those who dare tell the truth. This is deeply disturbing.
Here’s their Twitter feed–ending with their shutting down:
https://twitter.com/V_of_Europe?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the link, gravenimage.
Deeply disturbing.
Hopefully they can continue their work using a regular website and BitChute…
gravenimage says
I hope so, James.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Please don’t actually lose your hope and stop writing. We must be able to do something about this.
Why is this stuff not getting through to the Republicans? Why aren’t they doing anything, someone must make enquiries.
janicevanguilder says
I’d like to be around when these big shots get put out of business by the islamists to whom they cater
gravenimage says
If Islam takes over this will indeed happen, Janice.
Jake2169 says
Google, Facebook, and Twitter have all become the voice of Islam. All are terrified of reprisals, or to be more precise, they are terrified of losing money from Muslim sources. All of these companies roll around in shit which makes money stick!! Why people still rely on these treacherous companies is beyond me. They take money from the public then attempt to destroy the very fabric of our civilised society and are aiding and abetting an extremely dangerous ideology, Islam. Any ideology that is beyond criticism and scrutiny is bound to thrive. No doubt Google, Facebook and Twitter will be amongst the first to gleefully announce the enforcement of Sharia Law. Those who work within these treacherous entities should be ashamed with the help they are giving to a very dangerous enemy of the West. But, they are of course far more concerned with making money and don’t really care what happens to the ordinary people they are betraying. The way they see things is simple, when an arse is wiped clean, everything smells of roses! Little do they know what they do!! When Sharia is implemented, then they will!!!
Gamzu says
It’s not just the internet. If the Dems regain the WH and Senate, look for them to reimpose the “Fairness Doctrine,” which would spell the end of conservative talk radio.
OLD GUY says
A good question is what’s in for them, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER and others? Do they think they are going to rule the world? If ISLAM wins the race for world domination we will all being living under a DICTATORSHIP and SHARIA. If the far left liberals win we will be living under a SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP, ones not a hell of a lot better than the other. Both will result in a loss of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of choices in life unless you are one of the elite the rest of us will become slaves of the state. NO THANKS. I’ll stand for democracy, freedom and liberty even if it is not always right or perfect at least with it you have a chance and opportunity to improve.
Aussie Infidel says
These large and influential internet companies are all essentially public platforms for people speaking out on many different issues. And as such, they should be subject to the US First Amendment on freedom of speech. On public platforms people should be able to say whatever they like – even if it offends others. Any aggrieved party still has the right to take legal action – but not expect taxpayers to fight his case for him. The leftist ideologues who run these companies have become the nations de facto censors. As the old saying goes: “If they can’t stand the heat, they should get out of the kitchen”.
After so many incidents like this, the US government must act. And the only course of action is to declare them public platforms, and regulate or break them up under the anti-trust laws.
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/antitrust-laws
Although these laws were intended to allow fair and equal opportunities in trade and commerce, it could be argued that in this digital age, the internet companies are unfairly preventing the free exchange of information, and denying citizens their right of free speech – and purely for political purposes.
x says
This is sad. I have used voice of Europe as a source for many years now. They did not even editorialize. They just reported on actual news (something the MSM has forgotten how to do). They did not have a lot of private funding, but they had enough traffic for advertising. It was this advertising that was sabotaged by the usual suspects.
There is still the Gates of Vienna, though I would not categorize it as a news site, but a place where people send various stories (albeit not vetted). But because of this, it is cheaper to maintain.