Holy Scary!!!!!

[IAMREALITY]

Things are getting scary. When DU just went down I felt like my life support was cut off. Reality really hit hard. Then when I googled DU online and found those 100% articles about the notification to homeland security of those conveniently selected DU extremist quotes implying wanted harm for our troops, I thought holy crap, what if Homeland Security shuts us down one friggin day and robs us of our right to free speech on some Patriot Act Crap Technicality or something???

Let's Pray that will never happen. But it hit me tonight, we need each other, and I'm certain dozens and dozens of you felt as helpless as I did the last few hours. So if this was an attack, and a bigger one comes in the future, do we have a backup plan to keep in touch?

Please let me know.....

[ogradda]

1. is this a dream?

am i actually in? what the hell happened that was almost 3 hours..

[LiberalAndProud]

7. Really, it was down for that long?

I just came home to log on and TERROR struck my heart. What the hell do you mean server not found? AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!! Fortunately I was busy elsewhere earlier tonight.

[laruemtt]

2. yahoo DU Panic Room -

go check it out. at least we can suffer together over there till du's back up.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. This is a good time to ask.

What's a fugue (sp?) state?

[BlueEyedSon]

6. link please?

[IAMREALITY]

9. Ummmm Link?

[PoiBoy]

31. yahoo DU panic room link please...

link please.......

[Magic_Cookie]

37. Link for DU Panic Room

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DUPanicRoom/?yguid=76214637

[faithnotgreed]

54. thanks for the link

[Magic_Cookie]

60. your welcome n/t

[Chelsea Patriot]

70. Thanks for that link!

I completely freaked out earlier this evening!

[intheflow]

74. Thanks.

I was freaking out a wee bit, too.

:hippie:

[bluetrain]

3. i was getting really nervous

i think we should figure out a way to organize in person in case they do knock it down for good at some point but i don't know how we'd do that without all getting on watch lists.

[rainbow4321]

14. Nervous and sad...

it is my night off work and I was all settled in to explore and post til the wee hours...poof went DU..yay for it coming back up :toast:

[pres2032]

4. I don't see them shutting us down

There would be too much of a backlash. Remember there are 50,000+ of us. heh, though come to think of it, the fact that there is 50,000+ is certianly a good reason to shut us down.....
:scared:

[marylanddem]

8. Yeah, very scarey

I didn't realize how much I've been depending on DU for my sanity till whatever just happened happened. I hope the administrators explain this. Whew!

[Amich]

10. I thought my computer was messed up

I don't know anyones email addresses to say hey is something wrong here or not. I didn't realize how much I enjoy being here until just tonite. it was almost like I was out of coffee in the morning and didn't know what to do.:)

[dave502d]

11. I try one of the other internets but Du was not their. n/t

[RagingInMiami]

12. Just cause I know he'll be reading this

John Hawkins is an first-class asshole without a life. No wonder he never gets "tired of reading posts from people at the Democratic Underground".

Add that to your list, you right-wing nazi bitch.

[marylanddem]

13. Did anyone get a porno site?

Did anyone else who tried to get on during that time get some kind of weird porno site? I got that porno when I typed in the address, but the "not-available message" when I used the "favorites"

[ogradda]

15. lmao no

a porno site huh? now that's weird :)

[noonriser]

19. I only used my bookmark.

VERY weird though!

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[Spiffarino]

64. Deadmessenger is right

Get Ad-Aware, but make sure to download the latest version (SE) and download the latest updates before you "scrub" your system. Also download and run Spybot S&D ver 1.3 (http://www.safer-networking.org/en). It's better to use more than one.

Sometimes AAW won't remove everything or it will hang during the deletion process. In that case boot to safe mode and run it again. I cleaned three "hosed" computers at work today using that method, which saved us from having to reinstall Windows.

[deadmessengers]

32. Get Ad-Aware

Porn showing up at odd moments is a possible symptom of spyware infection. You might want to download Ad-Aware (it's free) and scan to see what's going on.

[ogradda]

58. i had to do that

my nasty little 24 year old got my computer INFESTED with spyware took forever to scrub it out. now i do it once a week to make sure it never gets that bad again. :)

[noonriser]

16. my first thought was hacker attack. (nt)

:mad: :mad:

[IAMREALITY]

17. My First Thought Too

I'm sure we'll see more hacks as things heat up.

[OnceAndFutureTruth]

73. Haha...I reinstalled my firewall, just in case! LOL

[snot]

18. Someone pls suggest "Plan B" venues

[shakerbaker]

23. Good Idea

My finger was spasming on the refresh button. They can
and will take it down again that is if we don't do it ourself
from excitement.

[snot]

47. LoL!

[librechik]

82. we should all meet at bartcop forum--or maybe Malloy's

there's already a lot of crossover, I think--

[genieroze]

28. I also post on democrats.com

http://community.democrats.com/forums/index.cfm It's nowhere near as busy and a very small group. If hundreds or thousands of people went on there all at once I bet it would crash. lol

[rainbow4321]

51. LOL...

"hey, I bought 50,000 panicky people over here, is that OK?"

[genieroze]

34. I got it!

Does everyone have access to the usenet newsgroups? It's not monitored and we may get harassed by the righties but in an emergency.... I know a empty group that nobody ever posts on it's alt.politics.larouche

[genieroze]

55. Nevermind

Yahoo is better, because it's monitored.

[snot]

56. Is there a way to categorize messages in yahoo groups?

[rainbow4321]

35. A go-to place is needed...

cuz when the Kerry blog was shut down in the early, early morning hours of Nov 3rd, everyone got scattered onto different webpages and had no clue where to meet up. Nobody knew anyone else's email to say WTF is going on or to say "go to this webpage instead".

[4democracy]

63. commongroundcommonsense.org is where a lot of people are

from the Kerry/Edwards blog. It stayed up when Du was down tonight, but a couple of nights ago it went down also. They are trying hard to disrupt us, we must be causing waves!

[genieroze]

20. What???

I was off for almost 4 hours because my daughter was playing DOOM and would not get her butt off. What happened, we were down? Maybe they were upgrading.

[Skip Intro]

21. We need to all go to the same place when this happen

we need a backup site that uses a different server, just a place for DUers to go if DU goes down for a long period.

[KAZ]

30. A Yahoo site was set up a few months back....

but my link is at work. I Googled "emergency"+"DU"+"Yahoo" to no avail. We (I) need something in stone.

All I can think of is "Donate to DU"!

[rainbow4321]

39. DUPanicRoom

Did a search on Yahoo groups and found this..it is "members only" so everyone will have to create a yahoo address to access

[genieroze]

43. I have about six groups there now

got the address?

[rainbow4321]

44. It is...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DUPanicRoom/

[genieroze]

50. Done

Is it private? Then if any righties start up we can give them the boot and they can't read what's being posted.

[dweller]

52. and it has an excellent mod

evident tonite.

pretty hairy bit there wasn't it?

go to the panic room and check in when DU goes down. Bookmark it.

whew.
dp

[KAZ]

59. Thank you Rainbow! n/t

n/t

[genieroze]

45. Oh duh DUPanicRoom

Nevermind the address

[KCS72000]

77. do people know about this emergency site

Emergency Underground

http://eunderground.proboards29.com/

[shelley806]

22. I've been worrying a lot about that very thing since even before the

election...What exactly did happen, though? I worked late today, and just now logged on. And this yahoo DU panic site? Do you have to join Yahoo to chat?

"what if Homeland Security shuts us down one friggin day and robs us of our right to free speech on some Patriot Act Crap Technicality or something???"

[rainbow4321]

49. U create a yahoo account...

then you say that you want to join the group. Painless but don't forget your yahoo account info or you cannot get to the message board.

[pnutchuck]

24. Leave the panicking to the right wing

I'm in Paris and often lose track of the time difference. And a newby, so, wasn't too worried. My computer is always screwed up here. It didn't hit me until I logged in finally and saw everybody here was panicked. Look, let's leave the panicking to the right-wing. They have their 'be-prepared' infomercials out and are still stocking up on gas masks.

Besides, if they shut us down, we might have to actually get off our asses and revert back to the '60's style protests.

[IAMREALITY]

26. GO CLIMB THE EIFFEL TOWER NEWBIE HEHEHE

[pnutchuck]

33. I am an American

First of all, leave your anti-French sentiment at the White House!!!!! I work here and came home to vote. Maybe you should read the entire content of my thread.

[IAMREALITY]

36. It was a JOKE, Relax there Killer.......

Still think your original comment was a stupid thing to say though.

[pnutchuck]

40. The truth hurts

If it weren't for cable TV and the internet, there'd be a lot more disgruntled people out there willing to fight for their rights.

[snot]

29. Most of us shd have been MORE paranoid about e-voting. Be prepared!

[pnutchuck]

38. Agreed

If hackers can get into the CIA computers, they can sure as hell take down the network of e-vote central. I NEVER liked the idea of computers getting a hold of my vote. I have no doubt in my mind that the CIA isn't already using hackers now on our emails and chat lines.

[Magic_Cookie]

41. yup, we need to have backups of our important stuff

beyond relying on DU
Lots of research/info has been posted here & we can't loose it
But gosh, how to even begin to organize it!

[pnutchuck]

48. Back when people had memories

We are such an evolution of a species: Homeobrainstorusmicrochipus

[snot]

25. E.g.,

http://blog.democrats.com/blog? A problem is, this is the only forum I'm a member of; I assume I wouldn't be able to post on others with some kind of initiation period. But I can become a member elsewhere. And shd we check with the other site(s) about what we want to do?

[Bonescrat]

27. Can newbies come too?

We frighten easily... :scared: :scared:

[jjanpundt]

42. It really was scary! Didn't realize how addicted I am to

this board! I thought it'd been shut down! As crazy as things are going in this country! :scared: :scared:

[PoiBoy]

46. Here's a link to yahoo DU panic room...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DUPanicRoom/

also, go to yahoo.. group main page and search democratic underground... there are DU groups for different parts of the country.. that's pretty cool...

midwest:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/du-midwest/

south:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/du-south/

northeast:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/du-northeast/

southwest:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/du-southwest/

west coast:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/du-westcoast/

northwest:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/du-northwest/

international:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/du-international/

I don't know if these groups are endorsed by the admins here, but they are a good way to keep in touch, IMO... :hi:

[Catherine Vincent]

53. The DU panic rooms are okay and I'll guess they'll do in a time of

need but they are awful slow, I posted 3 messages within 15 minutes and never saw either one posted. It has to be approved by a moderator. I did go into the chat room from that page but no one else was logged in?:shrug: That would have been much better and faster!

Why didn't you folks go into the chat room?

[noonriser]

68. Didn't know about it. Relative newby. Sorry!

I'm registered for it now and it'll be my backup site. Thanks.

[buzzard]

57. DU down I went to freep and they are a scary bunch

I am a Canadian who has been following your group for a few months now. I was amazed at how out of touch with reality many at freep seem to be. It doesn't seem to bother them that the integrity of the vote is at question. They also seem to feel that democrats are an uneducated bunch but judging by their discourse I don't think they would know an educated comment if they saw one. Best of luck with the recounts in Ohio and I hope New Hampshire lets loose a floodgate for voter reform. I really refuse to believe that most American's actually support *sh, he is doing incredible damage to your country.

[Magic_Cookie]

61. Quoting from you & in agreement

"I really refuse to believe that most American's actually support *sh, he is doing incredible damage to your country."

I think that has most of us in shock too! Which makes it so important to have a voting system that we can believe in. At least if I knew for sure that this was how the majority of other American's felt then I could leave this country without regret, but to not have that confidence ... well then I have a duty to stay & fix it & get that confidence!

[Catherine Vincent]

62. You refuse correctly!

Most Americans didnot vote for that son of a bush!

[patomime]

65. I'm new and already addicted - and I just couldn't stand it---

I thought I was zoning out to a parallel universe - I kept hitting the "refresh" button and my computer was freezing.

This newbie was freakin' out. :scared: :scared:

Wheeeeewwww! I feel all better now. :kick:

[Hosnon]

66. Yea I did not like that...thought BushCo got to us!!!

[loudsue]

67. You know, THIS is a good reason to get to know your local DUers...

There are State and Country forums for the purpose of bringing us closer together.....USE THAT OPPORTUNITY!!!

When you know the other DUers in your area, that in itself is a "safety net", in case someday the bad guys really do try to put a stop to our freedom of speech. And any DUer who is or has been paying attention, knows that what I'm saying is not too far fetched.

Have meetings locally, just go have dinner or coffee or a beer with your fellow DUers. Look 'em in the eye. Get phone numbers. First of all, it's great fun, and makes you feel better. Second, you never know when it might be really necessary. "Underground" was once a "railroad". If history repeats itself, it could some day be one again.

:kick::kick::kick:

[mzmolly]

69. Good grief ! Get a life people ...

This coming from a person with over 10,000 posts. But geez, it's a website fer cryin out loud! It will go down from time to time.

*cough*

Pardon me if I'm a bit suspicious of these sort of posts ... but I am none the less.

:hi:

[IAMREALITY]

76. Suspicious of What Mrs.10000 ?

Yeah, no chance we are getting hacked and no chance we should fear being disrupted for a meaningful period of time in the heat of this battle when things are starting to heat up. Yeah, no reason at all. Nahhhhh, the repubs don't want to disrupt us, we are just paranoid... They Just love what we are doing here.

[mzmolly]

78. "Heat of the battle"?

:eyes: We've been "battling" around here for years. We also go down from time to time.

[IAMREALITY]

79. Yawnnnnnn

:eyes:

[mzmolly]

80. *Snoooorrrre*

:boring:

[demodonkey]

71. Another Yahoo Group - takinmycountryback

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/takinmycountryback/

[m berst]

72. another board

We have a board of Clark people that we kept going after Clark dropped out and it has been a good safe haven over the months when the Dean campaign ended, Kucinich etc. People are always welcome to use it as a back up if DU goes down, or if anyone wants to set up a private closed group we can do that for you as well.

http://www.thegeneralconversation.com/board/

Faster and better than Yahoo, no ads, etc.

[savetheuniverse]

75. Don't worry...i just want to say one thing then i'll get outta your way

I just wanted to explain...i stumbled in here by accident about a week ago...i wanted to help, and it took a while before i figured out how far outta my league it was ... so sorry i got your way ...but hey this is surreality central ....what is going down here is super scary for everyone the country lives now in two parallel universes, one that knows and one that is too afraid to know...so pass my apologies on to anyone who needs them and as always my thanks and utter awe at what you have accomplished. my job is to pillory the press...I will attempt to do my very best to slam them for not recognizing what you are doing...but for gods sake if they shut you down do not leave me behind i promise i won't get in the way anymore...maybe someone can help me go back and clean up some of the shit piles i left if we survive this...:crazy: bigtime

[KaryninMiami]

81. DU has been up and down quite a lot since yesterday

I figure it was my wireless connection bujt it's been very difficult to get in here at certain times since yesterday... We need a backup plan and a back-up location. Maybe someone has an idea in case we get hacked to bits? Is someone making copies of some of the information that's been gathered here? I don't want to sound paranoid but I agree-- it is important that we protect what we know and stay in touch with each other somehow. Any ideas?