Hi Mitchell,

Thanks for your honesty. Allow me to respond, equally honestly.

Firstly, there is a huge difference between "goading" (people to post) and encouraging. And if you feel irritated by it then I would reflect that irritation is a reaction, and therefore something to be owned and worked with. Secondly, you are perfectly free not to frequent the site.

Yes, the drupal program, which our platform is built upon, does record stats of what pages are visited - that's as far as it goes. The program is an open source one that has no central authority and no agenda other than to produce a user-friendly content management system - actually state of the art. We do not have the resources to track what IP belongs to what person, even should we want to. The only person that views the colated stats at all, is me. And the only thing I'm paying attention to, is what external websites link to our articles - so we can make connections to alternative and otherwise censored organisations. We use captcha on our comment forms only to prevent automated spam postings and denial of service attacks by automated robots.

This is a HUGE cry from the likes of facebook, google and youtube, who track your IP and from that your actual identity, your various usage of the web in general, who you connect with, what you watch across all platforms, what you spend, who you bank with etc etc etc. To compare us with them, is to compare a single fishing line with a fleet of trawlers.

So why do we still use them ourselves? A good question - one that we're constantly monitoring. It just so happens that billions of people still use them - the very people we're working to connect with. But yes, we are looking at other platforms too, such as telegram and bitchute. The likelihood is we'll move off the mainstream media platforms in due course. Right now though, Openhandweb is being heavily censored and so we're using the best means we can to connect with people where they are. I would like it to be different, but that's how things are right now.

If you find any of this disagreeable Mitchell, then you're perfectly free of course to go elsewhere.

Best wishes

Open