{"id":24621,"date":"2025-06-26T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=24621"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:09:55","slug":"the-future-of-sotn-good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=24621","title":{"rendered":"

The Future of SOTN:<\/span> Updated 6\/29\/25<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LAST DAY OF OUR FIRST AND FINAL DONATION CAMPAIGN, FOLKS<\/h1>\n
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So if you plan on contributing to SOTN, this is the time to do it—thank you!<\/h3>\n
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First we want to sincerely thank those SOTN followers who have contributed to the State of the Nation<\/strong> Alt Media<\/em> platform during the only fund-raising campaign in our 17 year history.<\/p>\n

While there were relatively few folks who made donations, those who gave contributed an amount — in total — that will allow the SOTN network to cover most of the major operational expenses for this year.\u00a0 However, the larger costs associated with the neglected problems which cause the site to periodically go down are not covered (see the “Summary of SOTN Costs” posted below).<\/p>\n

Just an FYI for those who requested to make a contribution using a specific payment platform, we ran into some ridiculous difficulties (clearly engineered by the censorship regime and various sabotage bots) in setting up different donation links.\u00a0 Not only was SOTN rejected outright from a number of platforms, the various obstacles we confronted were practically insurmountable on others.\u00a0 Hence, the ways of giving has been limited.<\/p>\n

For those who wanted to make a donation by check or cash, setting up a $300.00 PO Box was not cost effective for a one time fund-raising campaign.\u00a0 If there’s another method that’s acceptable, please let us know between now and June 30th.<\/p>\n

Prospective donors can email us at either of the two email addresses below to discuss making a donation via Zelle, PayPal or a Square credit card invoice that is privately and securely processed.<\/p>\n

SOTNeditor@protonmail.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 &\u00a0\u00a0SOTNeditor1@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Lastly, this will be our last donation campaign so anyone who plans on contributing is encouraged to do so by June 3oth.\u00a0 It has been a very challenging fund-raising endeavor because the enemies of SOTN came out in force to acquire our both our personal information and private business data using every deceit imaginable, which we fully expected but do not have the time to deal with.\u00a0 It just further validated how SOTN is always hovering right over the target(s).<\/p>\n

Much gratitude to all,<\/p>\n

The SOTN Team<\/p>\n

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Summary of SOTN Costs<\/h3>\n

We are receiving donations to cover all of the 2025 renewals
\nfor 6 websites\u2014all SOTN libraries and directly affiliated and
\ninterlinked Alt Media sites. The renewals include all hosting
\nservice fees on 2 different servers, domain names and privacy,
\nas well as a comprehensive, top-tier, security package for each
\nsite.<\/p>\n

Because of the various problems with viruses and malware,
\nwe also require the services of a cyber-security tech, software
\ndeveloper and\/or coder to clean up a lot of damage inflicted
\nover the years when we could not afford those services.
\nJust getting the site search engines to work properly is going
\nto be a big job, so we are told because of how those functions
\nhave been compromised over the years.<\/p>\n

As a result of all<\/strong> SOTN social media accounts being either
\ndeplatformed and\/or demonetized everywhere, we are also
\nlooking for an SEO crackerjack who can be trusted.\u00a0 Even our
\nsearch engine traffic has been pushed down to practically zero;
\nand that referral source used to be the primary way that new
\nvisitors found us.<\/p>\n

Lastly, we are looking into the possibility of setting up an
\narchive(s) for all the sites for reasons previously stated. We
\nare still receiving ideas about how to best to perform that task
\nas well as estimates.\u00a0 The costs of conducting the multi-site
\nclean-up job is also a big unknown as quotes will be forth-
\ncoming.<\/p>\n

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