As Usual, Mises Institute is Twelve Steps Ahead

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We want all of you, fans and supporters of the Mises Institute, to know we are well positioned to survive purges by platforms and hosts. Without giving too much detail, here are the basics:
•We maintain and own (not rent) internal servers and backup servers, while also maintaining storage offshore;
•We are moving to a very local internet service provider (ISP) with beefy broadband;
•We have alternative domain registration providers in place to protect the use of mises.org;
•We have "hot standby" sites in two foreign jurisdictions in case of a denial by our web host;
•We have all video, audio, and graphic content housed on our backup servers in case of a denial by our cloud provider;
•We sync and mirror all YouTube videos on alternative platforms, including Odysee (started by a Mises Institute fan);
•We have registered the Mises Institute name with every new or alternative social media possible, with the expectation that Facebook and Twitter will remove us eventually. Fortunately, in one sense, only about 20 percent of our site traffic arrives via social media click-through (which is not the case for many newer sites). Also, less than half of mises.org traffic arrives via organic Google search. So while we would hate to lose views if Google "disappeared" our search results, enough people come to mises.org directly through their browsers or from subscription emails;
•We have moved away from using shared internal Google docs;
•We have moved toward encrypted email vendors;
•We keep strict security over our donor database and back it up frequently using internal storage;
•We moved our email/subscription lists to an alternative vendor after reading accounts of Mailchimp reviewing user content; and
•We have taken steps to maintain alternative payment gateways and diversify our banking providers locally, nationally, and internationally.

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