Why Was Gab Taken Down But Twitter Left Up?

YouTube ^ | 10/29/18 | Patrick Rooney

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Patrick Rooney of PRRooney.com discusses the de-platforming of Gab after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

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Your comments are welcome.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Isn’t it obvious?

[Darksheare]

Because the psychos on the left see nothing wrong with thousands of violent postings on Twitter from the left, but one screwball that claims to be right wing is grounds to shut down an entire site.

[thoughtomator]

Just a heads up, CNN is trying to get Torba and his parents killed by blaming them for the shooting and broadcasting pictures of his home.

If anyone is in the neighborhood, they could use protection.

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It is. I just want more people thinking about the double standard.

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Sorry to hear, but not surprised (of course).

[Reno89519]

Why Gab--small. Not Twitter--big. Same as why Twitter not touch Trump--Big. Gab is not defensible--who wants to defend a site that claims open to conservative, then hosts anti-Jewish BS, pornography, etc. Bad. Conservative does not equal those values! And, yes, some people defend Gab and ignore rest, else say you don't have to look at the rest but that misses the point, the site hosts that garbage. It says something about the owner's values. They're not conservative, that's for sure. Goodbye Gab.

I am bothered by Lifesite. They seem to have stronger argument--no violent hate, no anti-Jewish BS, and they are religious so-to-speak. Cutting them off might be construed as religious discrimination.

[ifinnegan]

Plenty of murderers on Twitter and Facebook too.

Why not shut them down too?

[thoughtomator]

Exactly. America has become a place where if you’re not big, you’re chum in the water.

Not the place it was supposed to be.

[Rusty0604]

Howard Dean: Gab should be tried as accomplice to murder in synagogue slayings

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/413622-howard-dean-gab-should-be-tried-as-accomplice-to-murder-in-synagogue

[Rusty0604]

Gab didn’t claim to be a conservative site, it’s a free speech site.

[Gil4]

My guess is Twitter has their own servers and hosts their own site while Gab doesn’t.

[OddLane]

CNN is execrable.

Can we get that Space Force going so we can send them into orbit?

[OddLane]

"...who wants to defend a site."

I do.

[Reno89519]

You wouldn’t know that from the way people defend and promote it here on FR, which seems repeated in the media.

[DiogenesLamp]

I think a place where you can watch the cockroaches gather makes it easier to keep an eye on them. One of my friends in high school used to tell me he would rather know someone is racist than have it hidden. It makes the solution of how to interact with them so much easier.

[Reno89519]

That’s really no different than anytime in our nation or the world’s history. Same old, same old.

[Laslo Fripp]

Who is Torba?

[DiogenesLamp]

I'm not on Gab, because I don't do that social media stuff. (Apart from this stuff I do here.)

But I think Gab needs to stay in business precisely because it is a free speech website. I'm told it's actually the brainchild of, and ran by a Jewish guy. If he can put up with the anti-semitic crap, then he must feel the value of free speech is worth it.

We are slowly being choked off the internet, and we need to start building platforms and networks just to remain a viable source of information.

[thoughtomator]

Gab CEO.

Update/correction. WNEP local Scranton affiliate of ABC is the culprit. Showing his parents and their home address from SEC docs.

https://twitter.com/WNEP/status/1056945266010570752