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The Far Right Has a New Digital Safe Space
The New York Times ^ | November 30, 2016 | Amanda Hess

Posted on 12/01/2016 6:46:17 AM PST by Trump20162020

When the white nationalist leader Richard B. Spencer was suspended from Twitter recently, he hopped over to YouTube to address his supporters. “Digitally speaking,” he said, Twitter had sent “execution squads across the alt-right.” He accused Twitter of “purging people on the basis of their views,” calling it “corporate Stalinism.” Then he mapped out a path forward. “There’s obviously Gab, which is an interesting medium,” he said. “I think that will be the place where we go next.”

Gab is a new social network built like a hybrid of Twitter and Reddit — posts are capped at 300 characters, and the crowd votes to boost or demote posts in the feed. But Gab’s defining feature is its user guidelines, or rather, its lack thereof. Gab bans illegal activities — child pornography, threats of violence, terrorism — and not much else. “Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are taking the path of censorship,” Utsav Sanduja, Gab’s chief communications officer, told me via email. “Gab does not.”

Think of Gab as the Make America Great Again of social sites: It’s a throwback to the freewheeling norms of the old internet, before Twitter started cracking down on harassment and Reddit cleaned out its darkest corners. And since its debut in August, it has emerged as a digital safe space for the far right, where white nationalists, conspiracy-theorist YouTubers, and minivan majority moms can gather without liberal interference.

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KEYWORDS: gab; twitter
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Does The New York Times not understand what constitutes a "safe space"? How in the hell is Gab, which allows anyone and everyone to say whatever the hell they want, a "safe space"?
1 posted on 12/01/2016 6:46:17 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

typical liberal “no true Scotsman.”

uhhh safe spaces are by and for the Islam-loving transvestitism-promoting no-borders police-hating white-blaming crud called progressives.


2 posted on 12/01/2016 6:47:54 AM PST by ErikJohnsky
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To: All; Jim Robinson

Free Republic is MY Digital Safe Space!

Sign up to be a Monthly, ya Freep-Loaders! :)


3 posted on 12/01/2016 6:48:21 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Trump20162020

No safe space.

Hey, Libs, sign-up for Gab and give it your best shot.
You’re more than welcome! You won’t be any more successful
there than you’ve been anywhere else.


4 posted on 12/01/2016 6:50:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Trump20162020
"It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid.
5 posted on 12/01/2016 6:50:59 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: Trump20162020

I am over there as UncleMiltie, testing it out.

A few kinks, but pretty fun! Younger crowd, which is good fun.


6 posted on 12/01/2016 6:51:28 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Media were SuperPacs for Clinton. Throw them in prison.)
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To: Trump20162020

Safe Spaces are for poodles:

"From each according to their ability... 

...to each according to their need"

Americans fill in the blank regardless of whether Alphafem poodle herders say it's "safe" to do so or not...

 

7 posted on 12/01/2016 6:54:52 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Trump20162020

I like GAB. It’s still in its infancy. The NY Times wants to define it in their own terms. NYT will not succeed. More and more people are on to them.


8 posted on 12/01/2016 6:59:36 AM PST by folkquest (Alleluia!)
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To: Trump20162020

“Does The New York Times not understand what constitutes a “safe space”?”

Of course not. They think women’s bathrooms (the only long-established “safe space” developed by every society) should be completely open to perverts who simply utter the safeword “identify”.


9 posted on 12/01/2016 7:04:03 AM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Trump20162020
Trump will end up on GAB.

When he goes he will make GAB a well known brand in a few days.

Looks a bit like Pepe :-)


10 posted on 12/01/2016 7:04:58 AM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's new Press Secretary!)
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To: Trump20162020

New York Times, you are profligate in flatulent consumption.

You’re also full of crap.


11 posted on 12/01/2016 7:05:09 AM PST by JusPasenThru (Well...bye.)
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To: Trump20162020

Hey, NYT, Reddit still has the “pedofriends” subreddit.


12 posted on 12/01/2016 7:06:46 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Trump20162020

Slimes living up to its name with another hit piece. Too bad it’s irrelevant tripe with zero credibility.


13 posted on 12/01/2016 7:18:03 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Trump20162020

Proud to be a GABer AND a Galaxian - a user of the Wikipedia-alternative, InfoGalactic. . . .


14 posted on 12/01/2016 7:22:43 AM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

More importantly, if you don’t like what someone says on Gab. . . .you can mute them, so you never see anything from them again. But your choices only affect what YOU see, not what everyone else sees.

Join Gab, and #SpeakFreely. ..


15 posted on 12/01/2016 7:35:24 AM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Trump20162020

When I see “alt-right” in any story, I stop reading right there.

It is a stupid phrase they use to label anyone who thinks we shouldn’t give liberals full rights to impose on us any thing they desire.

To use another liberal phrase “alt-right” is a “dog-whistle” for racism.


16 posted on 12/01/2016 7:48:19 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Trump20162020

Amazing how the left constantly tortures the language - even terms they themselves crated.


17 posted on 12/01/2016 8:28:12 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Trump20162020
When the white nationalist leader Richard B. Spencer...

OK, NYT geniuses; what is a white nationalist? An America-first individual who happens to be white, IMNSHO. And is there something WRONG with that? If a black man loves and serves America, is he a black nationalist? Gimme a break, already!

No more of your lyin' buzzwords, please.

18 posted on 12/01/2016 8:30:10 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: HLPhat

“From each according to their ability... 

...to each according to their need”

Sounds really nice and fair, until you discover that THEY get to decide what YOU need!


19 posted on 12/01/2016 8:32:23 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Trump20162020

NYT interviews “white nationalist”. Surprised?


20 posted on 12/01/2016 8:34:14 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (MSM = HOME OF FAKE News)
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