Posted on 03/12/2021 3:40:56 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Every month 30 million people use Gab’s services to get access to the free flow of information online. Gab is the home of free speech in a world where Big Tech oligarchs have censored, deplatformed, and demonized tens of millions of good, honest, and decent people with whom they disagree politically.
Tonight Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a “Republican,” issued a despicable and false statement smearing Gab as an “anti-semitic platform that quote “has no place in Texas.” This is the same Gov. Abbott who just five days ago said he was “taking a stand against Big Tech censorship.”
Gov. Abbott’s statement will likely not sit well with the nearly 800,000 Texans who have visited Gab.com in the past 24 hours alone. What is even more strange is that the Texas GOP itself is on Gab with a verified account.
Gab is not an “anti-semitic” platform. We protect the political speech of all Americans, regardless of viewpoint, because in this age of cancel culture nobody else will. That means unpopular viewpoints may be found on the site.
The enemies of freedom smear us with every name in the book because they hate America and they hate free speech. It’s a shame to see a GOP politician fall for this trap when conservative values are under sustained attack all over the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.gab.com ...
So just like we were supposed to pretend that Twitter was important, now we’re going to pretend Gab is important?
Free Republic is importanter.
Why not? It makes as much sense as pretending Greg Abbot is a Conservative.
HOORAY Andrew Torba
Good answer.
Abbott is out of touch.....
....Abbott is suffering from cedar fever and the adverse impact of mask-air recycling..... diminished oxygen.
Bingo....Abbott is Bush lite and Cornyn fan
I am always suspicious of Texas Republicans from experience.
So many of them have turned out to be frauds.
Gab is not an anti-Semitic site. That being said, there are a few lurkers who really are Nazi fanboys. Laura Loomer’s posts in particular are constantly trolled by this creep who calls himself “Arab Social Nationalist”. At a minimum she should be able to block this scumbag, and other scumbags like him, from replying to her posts.
Someone on his staff may be behind it.
It’s real easy to block in Gab.
I don’t even understand why Abbott would even mention Gab? what an bizarre thing to even bring up let alone complain about. Maybe he got some money from mainstream tech sites? I use the site and I don’t see anything about jews on it (though Im not exactly look for it). Even if people were racist on the site...its a free country.
Gov. Abbot Sir, you need to wash your mouth out with a new bar of Ivory Soap for slandering Gab the way you did.
Why are you aiding and abetting the Dem Playbook of destroying the conservative voice?
Stop playing their game! They won’t be there for you if trouble arises, I can guarantee you that.
Exactly.
True. If posters are free to post what they want, there will be some antisemitism and other posts conservatives may not like. But they have the freedom to ignore them.
If you search for Gab, the main heading comes up and underneath a link is listed for “WhiteHorde@Gab”. It appears to be a White supremacist page. It doesn’t show up on the main feed.
Gab is a free speech site. I guess that means what it says.
It’s my hunch that he was egged on by leading and loaded questions from the stooge media. It sure would be helpful to know something about the context of this statement.
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