Posted on 08/24/2016 7:56:10 AM PDT by servo1969
I recently got the chance to sit down and talk to Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a new freedom of speech-focused social network. Though the Twitter-style network was only launched last Monday and is still very much in early beta, thousands of people are currently waiting in line for an invitation to the service, which aims to act as a shelter for freedom of speech and expression.
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AT: It's been an incredible week, in just four days 10,000 people registered for our beta through nothing but word of mouth. Our mission is to put people and free speech first. That mission statement is connecting with tens of thousands of people not only in the United States, but around the world.
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AT: Unlike other social networks, we don't use verification checkmarks as an elitist social ranking system. We use them for one purpose - verifying identities. Currently, we verify accounts if they have a high likelihood of being impersonated, but very soon every Gab user will have the ability to verify their identity if they so choose.
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AT: We believe that the only valid form of censorship is self-censorship, an individual's freedom to opt-out. Gab empowers users to self-censor and remove unwanted followers, words, phrases, and topics they don't want to see in their feeds to help stop and prevent different forms harassment.
However, we do take steps to protect ourselves and our users from illegal activity. Our rules are very simple: no illegal pornography, a zero tolerance policy for promoting terrorism or violence, and users are not allowed to post other's confidential information without their consent.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Twitter’s done for
Will it be used to data mine, just like Twitter, Facebook, etc?
Competition is a good thing. Just ask Ma Bell.
Whatever happened to Pa Bell?
Second it.
“Whatever happened to Pa Bell?”
You never watch the Ma and Pa Bell movies...Pa lazed around while ma did all the work.
Oh wait, that was Ma and Pa Kettle...never mind.
I wonder if Milo has signed up yet? :-)
Bingo!
Social media doesn’t charge for its product, because the user Is the product...
So glad you brought this up.
Will gab.ai “share” it’s user data with .gov just like all other social media does?
BTW, it may be just weird coincidence, but look at what gabai means:
gabai - Jewish English Lexicon
www.jewish-languages.org/jewish-english-lexicon/words/176...
verb: to serve as gabai; noun: The officer of the synagogue who determines which congregants are to receive Torah honors at the service.
No doubt someone’s going to claim gab.ai is Mossad backed a intelligence gathering tool.
RE: “Will it be used to data mine, just like Twitter, Facebook, etc?”
Got gobbled up by Verizon. :-)
The only way to make money, other than charging a subscription fee or loading up the feed with advertising.
I just registered.
.ai is the domain of Anguilla.
The site name is Gab.
The domain is .ai
The Gab.ai thing is a coincidence.
“The Gab.ai thing is a coincidence.”
I dont believe in coincidences, but that’s just me. It’s akin to a site called Lick.me and the explanation is ‘well, the domain is in Montenegro..”
I married a man who has the same last name I do. We’re not related in any way. We also share the same birthday (September 3) although he’s older than me. And the first three digits of his SSN are the last three of mine.
All of which is a coincidence.
You may want to reconsider having anything to do with Gab.ai.
Gab.ai founder owner, Andrew Torba, is up to his eyeballs in user data mining analytics for the very companies he dislikes, ie: Twitter, Facebook, for example.
He works with Google Brands Studio profiling social media user groups for advertising...
Andrew Torba
CEO of AutomateAds.com/Advertise.ai (YC W15)
San Francisco Bay Area
Internet
Current
AutomateAds.com/ Advertise.ai
“Co-Founder and CEO
AutomateAds.com/ Advertise.ai
October 2011 – Present (4 years 11 months)San Mateo, California
AutomateAds.com helps Facebook, Google Adwords, and Twitter advertisers automate the management of their ad spend budgets using artificial intelligence. The company also built a conversational chatbot assistant, Advertise.ai, which is powered by the Automate Ads technology.
Advertise.ai powers Zoey, an AI-powered chatbot assistant for Facebook Messenger and Slack. Zoey helps advertisers keep track of and improve their advertising performance data across Facebook, Instagram, Google Adwords, and Twitter Ad campaigns. You can ask her any question about your ads data and get an instant response.”
Say hello to Zoey on FB Messenger here:
http://m.me/advertiseai
Try asking: “Can you show me the best performing age group by CPC from last month?”
Riverside Jr/Sr High school
High school
2005 – 2009
University of Scranton
Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy, Political Science, Entrepreneurship
2009 – 2013
The takeaway -
Mr. Torba, age 25, is very much of the mindset of his 20-something San Francisco Silicon Valley peers:
You are the product, and they have no ethical problems data mining every bit of information they can to share with advertisers, data brokers, or .gov.
RE: I just registered
And: Gab.ai user data mining just like Facebook, Twitter, Google
Nice job on your rigorous research about Gab.ai -
the conservative friendly “free speech” honeypot data mining company who’s founder currently works with Google, Facebook and Twitter...
RE: “.ai is the domain of Anguilla.
The site name is Gab.
The domain is .ai
The Gab.ai thing is a coincidence.”
And .. they’re going to beat you to death with Ads, Ads, and more Ads.
Sorry; I’m happy not being on Twitter and/or Facebook.
And, I’ve noticed lately that after making this statement several times on FR, more and more of the companies I check with on a regular basis, have now begun to list an e-mail address; along with twitter, etc.
I hope they had to hire a person (who really needed a job), just to answer all the emails.
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