March 14, 2018.
That was the day that this community was founded. The same day that the /r/sanctionedsuicide and /r/truesanctionedsuicide subreddits were banned. We opened up this forum to be a refuge for those that have been affected by the those bans. Not too much planning went into it. At the time the tech censorship of Reddit was rising. I brought up the idea to start this forum and the plan was set into motion. We asked the staff of SS and TrueSS subreddits if they wanted to be moderators. Some of them agreed to do so. We had the resources for it: The money, domain, hosting, forum software, and staff. The rest was history. The rules were made with the assistance of the staff. We had a very nice member compile a list of resources that is helpful to the community which is the same list that we have stickied to this day. Shortly after, we set up a shoutbox, which eventually turned into a chatroom. We also have added many other features to the forum as well.
The main reason to start this forum is because we didn't want to see this community fall apart after the ban of the subreddit. I personally was a lurker of the SanctionedSuicide subreddit for a while and I was very disappointed to see that Reddit censored yet another community that I used to visit. Another subreddit could have been created, but it would have been quarantined or banned. We quickly realized that Reddit was becoming a place where controversial opinions and groups get censored and removed. There has been numerous amounts of subreddits that have been either banned or quarantined by Reddit for either a made up reason or no reason at all. Some people cheer for this censorship, but we do not. I know that censorship always to more censorship and it will never stop until there's nothing left to censor. I didn't want to see the communities that i frequented sunk by corporate censorship.
Some people may be unconformable with this considering the media coverage surrounding the topic, but an incel website was founded in 2017, for the same reason than SS, which is the creeping censorship on the web. I speak for many here I know when I say I believe in the right to die and didn't want to see this community split between Discord servers and a bunch of alternative websites. We spoke about helping to censorship-proof the community and the site just came online. I sent him an email at the time detailing my skills and my experience in System Administration. I also had experience in doing PR/Marketing and other skills that are valuable to running a website/community. I set up a virtual private server and the forum was up and running with little issue.
We also founded a forum in late 2018 called Looksmax that focuses on self improvement through mental, social, or physical means. We also maintain a wiki to help people understand manosphere vocabulary and concepts, and a few other projects that we've started but we have shelved for now to focus on the community. We had the knowledge on how to find censorship-free domain registrars and hosting companies that support freedom of speech and we wanted Sanctioned Suicide to have that same level of protection.
A journalist emailed me and asked to confirm if we owned other websites apart from SanctionedSuicide, so the answer to that question is Yes, although it was never a secret. My intention here was to clear the air as we feel that a news agency is preparing to attempt to smear us with some false allegations for owning this website and others. There is nothing malicious going on behind the scenes. I wanted to make sure I could get this out before the media did another smear job against this community. I really want this to end. I don't want our members in constant fear about the state of this community, about associations to other groups, or anything else. Everyone here is already suffering enough; We don't want to add to that.
We are glad that we have been able to keep this community up and running for almost a year and a half. I want to take the time to thank every single one of you for sticking with us through all of this, as we really do care for the members of this community and without you all this place wouldn't exist. We feel that we have done a very good job running it so far. We really do appreciate the support and we will continue to fight for you all to speak freely no matter what. This community means the world to us.
If you have any questions for us you can PM us.
Thank you!
That was the day that this community was founded. The same day that the /r/sanctionedsuicide and /r/truesanctionedsuicide subreddits were banned. We opened up this forum to be a refuge for those that have been affected by the those bans. Not too much planning went into it. At the time the tech censorship of Reddit was rising. I brought up the idea to start this forum and the plan was set into motion. We asked the staff of SS and TrueSS subreddits if they wanted to be moderators. Some of them agreed to do so. We had the resources for it: The money, domain, hosting, forum software, and staff. The rest was history. The rules were made with the assistance of the staff. We had a very nice member compile a list of resources that is helpful to the community which is the same list that we have stickied to this day. Shortly after, we set up a shoutbox, which eventually turned into a chatroom. We also have added many other features to the forum as well.
The main reason to start this forum is because we didn't want to see this community fall apart after the ban of the subreddit. I personally was a lurker of the SanctionedSuicide subreddit for a while and I was very disappointed to see that Reddit censored yet another community that I used to visit. Another subreddit could have been created, but it would have been quarantined or banned. We quickly realized that Reddit was becoming a place where controversial opinions and groups get censored and removed. There has been numerous amounts of subreddits that have been either banned or quarantined by Reddit for either a made up reason or no reason at all. Some people cheer for this censorship, but we do not. I know that censorship always to more censorship and it will never stop until there's nothing left to censor. I didn't want to see the communities that i frequented sunk by corporate censorship.
Some people may be unconformable with this considering the media coverage surrounding the topic, but an incel website was founded in 2017, for the same reason than SS, which is the creeping censorship on the web. I speak for many here I know when I say I believe in the right to die and didn't want to see this community split between Discord servers and a bunch of alternative websites. We spoke about helping to censorship-proof the community and the site just came online. I sent him an email at the time detailing my skills and my experience in System Administration. I also had experience in doing PR/Marketing and other skills that are valuable to running a website/community. I set up a virtual private server and the forum was up and running with little issue.
We also founded a forum in late 2018 called Looksmax that focuses on self improvement through mental, social, or physical means. We also maintain a wiki to help people understand manosphere vocabulary and concepts, and a few other projects that we've started but we have shelved for now to focus on the community. We had the knowledge on how to find censorship-free domain registrars and hosting companies that support freedom of speech and we wanted Sanctioned Suicide to have that same level of protection.
A journalist emailed me and asked to confirm if we owned other websites apart from SanctionedSuicide, so the answer to that question is Yes, although it was never a secret. My intention here was to clear the air as we feel that a news agency is preparing to attempt to smear us with some false allegations for owning this website and others. There is nothing malicious going on behind the scenes. I wanted to make sure I could get this out before the media did another smear job against this community. I really want this to end. I don't want our members in constant fear about the state of this community, about associations to other groups, or anything else. Everyone here is already suffering enough; We don't want to add to that.
We are glad that we have been able to keep this community up and running for almost a year and a half. I want to take the time to thank every single one of you for sticking with us through all of this, as we really do care for the members of this community and without you all this place wouldn't exist. We feel that we have done a very good job running it so far. We really do appreciate the support and we will continue to fight for you all to speak freely no matter what. This community means the world to us.
If you have any questions for us you can PM us.
Thank you!
