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Why Was Gab Taken Down But Twitter Left Up?
YouTube ^ | 10/29/18 | Patrick Rooney

Posted on 10/29/2018 8:58:18 PM PDT by rebuildus

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To: Freedom56v2

Another good post.

It looks like it is happening here, folks. Generations of brainwashing from govt skools have taken their toll.


41 posted on 10/30/2018 12:05:46 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: combat_boots

The left are in an all out do or die war against America. Too many people are completely clueless of what’s going on.


42 posted on 10/30/2018 12:08:31 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Reno89519
Incidentally, comrade Reno, have you heard of the Chinese Social Credit System?

Please don't soil your sheets dreaming about it tonight.

43 posted on 10/30/2018 12:09:42 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: rebuildus

Because 1933 has returned.

https://cached-assets.patriotpost.us/images/2017-09-06-02ac6192_large.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44txXtljRJg


44 posted on 10/30/2018 12:13:01 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Meprry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Electric Graffiti

“Too many people”

In my youth, I lived across from escapees and saw occasional arm tattoos of survivors of the camps. Why people get tattoos on purpose became anathema to me then.

They’ll age, grizzled, faded, shrunken and sagging-should we live at all.


45 posted on 10/30/2018 12:18:24 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Meprry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Electric Graffiti
A lot of tweets about this new kristallnacht. If you're not concerned, you're not paying attention.


46 posted on 10/30/2018 12:19:03 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: combat_boots

Because 1933 has returned.

https://cached-assets.patriotpost.us/images/2017-09-06-02ac6192_large.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44txXtljRJg

Nice graphic.

All the modern Left has accomplished is the removal of a superfluous syllable and minor spelling changes.

Antifa might as well be the ones marching with the tiki torches.

47 posted on 10/30/2018 12:31:16 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Reno89519

Wrong - twice over:

1) Twitter is spared because Twitter - like Facebook and Youtube - is dedicated to censoring conservative voices. Gab is dedicated to giving those voices a platform.

2) Gab claiming to be open to conservatives does not equal Gab claiming to be solely dedicated to conservatives.

I do not want a “conservative” site; I want an open site.

Do you believe in freedom or not?

Your position, IOW: First they came for Gab, but I did not care because Gab, an open site, allowed legal free speech that I did not like...


48 posted on 10/30/2018 12:45:06 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yes. Really.


49 posted on 10/30/2018 12:45:30 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Reno89519; Rusty0604

Rusty is right; the Enemedia lies.


50 posted on 10/30/2018 12:48:50 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Electric Graffiti

They want the monopoly for Zuckerberg and the leftists.


51 posted on 10/30/2018 12:49:09 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: thoughtomator

Well said. Add me.


52 posted on 10/30/2018 12:51:41 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: cynwoody

Thanks.

Actually, it cannot be proven they didn’t in Charlottesville, since Spencer is actually a Leftist.

What bothers me about some key events is what I DIDN’T see. The van left for several minutes at the Charlottesville intersection, while the police stood down as someone somehow funneled ‘protestors’ down that particular street.

The empty overpass by the Bundy ranch while tactically-geared BLM had cowboys on horses, their women in front, all unarmed, in a kill box, save a rifleman on an overpass behind them. Even Bundy’s cattle were gunned down from helos and watering holes destroyed there, out of camera range and never questioned.

The Finicum shooting leaving Finicum, shot in the back by Oregon troopers one week after the female governor said to end the ‘standoff,’ lying alone for 20 minutes, in the snow, on a blind curve, with a well-armed set of ‘LEOs’ and NO EMT anywhere in sight.

The Hammonds chased off their ranch for, what? ‘Conservation’ which can turn to sale by the Feds to Russia for uranium mining, profits pocketed by Clinton, 0bama and the Feds?

Video of Iranian naval seizure of American sailors, forcing them ON THEIR KNEES.

That lone man on the roof at Benghazi, lasing the target, waiting for help that never came, while Ham had jets sitting on tarmacs at Rota and Sig, and Gaouette much the same on decks, asking for clearance to just HELP OUR MEN who were in hand to hand combat.

Video of Frenchie’s visit to the truly injured man from Benghazi in Walter Reed the following MARCH.

How brave. How perfectly brave of LEOs, SOSes and a CINC who stand down, abandoned, or ammoed up en masse, against not protestors but patriots.


53 posted on 10/30/2018 12:52:52 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Meprry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

That too, but there’s an all out push to stifle conservative speech and they’re not content with stopping there, they want to punish us, too...for being conservative, for being white, for being a patriot, etc.

The left are the same here, the world over, and throughout history—Nasty, unstable, tyrannical M-Fers. You let them build up a head of steam without anyone ‘staying their hand’ and you get stalin, lenin, hitler, mao, pol pot, etc.

The radical left control our stasi state, big tech, fakestream media, entertainment, and govt skools. Gird your loins because their coming. ;)


54 posted on 10/30/2018 1:16:16 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Rusty0604
Gab didn’t claim to be a conservative site, it’s a free speech site.

Not correct. Early on they were claiming this was where Conservatives could have free speech that they could not have at Twitter, that is why I joined. Unfortunately FREE speech also included anti-Jewish HATE speech, which became prevalent. I’m not Jewish, but this went over the line for me and I left. Perhaps some feel HATE speech is FREE speech. I do not.

55 posted on 10/30/2018 4:07:01 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: rebuildus

I would speculate tha Twitter trolls used Gab’s “free speech” meme to take down its competition pouring the poison of hate speech into the free speech meme. It worked.


56 posted on 10/30/2018 4:10:27 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: Reno89519
Personally, anonymity breeds the hate, intimidation, bullying, and violence we see too much of on the Internet. I've always figured if people had to put their name on their writings and all, 99% of the garbage would disappear

Probably so, but it would also cause to disappear any speech that challenges the dominant orthodoxy. It would take a brave person to say things for which they might be retaliated, for example, that there are only two sexes and people who think they are the opposite sex are not only wrong, but have a mental issue of some sort.

We'd be better for that. If you can't put your name on it, share it where your own family, friends, and employers can see it, be responsible and accountable, then you probably shouldn't be writing or doing it.

I notice most people on Free Republic use an alias to write their opinions. I think many fear retaliation if their opinions can be tracked back to them.

I'm pretty sure it can cost some people their jobs if people learn who they are and what opinions they have. The left routinely tries to "Pick a Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It."

57 posted on 10/30/2018 5:39:36 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
Not correct. Early on they were claiming this was where Conservatives could have free speech that they could not have at Twitter, that is why I joined. Unfortunately FREE speech also included anti-Jewish HATE speech, which became prevalent. I’m not Jewish, but this went over the line for me and I left. Perhaps some feel HATE speech is FREE speech. I do not.

I am not on Gab because I don't do that sort of social media stuff, but I read commentary from a lot of people who are, and they say you have to get your filters set up and then the site is not too bad.

Yes, the anti-semites are out there, and is it better to keep them hidden, or let them come out where people can see them?

I had a black friend in high school who said that he would rather know about the racists than to have them remain hidden from his view. If he knows about them, he can either avoid them or deal with them appropriately.

For what it's worth, I read a lot of other sites, and I see quite a few people who I regard as subtle anti-semites who mostly keep their perverse opinions under control. I think Gab will improve the more normal people join and start posting there. I heard it cracked half a million users about a month ago.

In any case, it's getting so bad out there that some conservatives are advocating having accounts hosted by porn websites just to remain on the internet. Whatever we do, we need to maintain some means of communication with the larger society, and I think we need to use whatever tools are necessary to accomplish this.

58 posted on 10/30/2018 5:52:39 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
I would speculate tha Twitter trolls used Gab’s “free speech” meme to take down its competition pouring the poison of hate speech into the free speech meme. It worked.

And that is a possibility. Leftists often use false flag tricks to attempt to destroy people they don't like. Remember all the people with racist signs that would show up at Tea Party rallies? At least the Tea Party had the good sense to run them off, when they noticed them.

The media still spun it as "The Tea Party is racist!"

59 posted on 10/30/2018 5:55:23 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

That is your perception not reality. Conservatives that had been censored by Twitter were welcome there, but it wasn’t set up as a conservative web site, just a free speech site. I’ve been on sites for years that had anti-Semitic or other hate speech, but I just ignored it. Speech shouldn’t be censored unless it is a direct threat or incitement to violence.

“Torba, a Trump supporter and self-described “conservative Republican Christian,” has maintained that Gab’s mission is to facilitate free speech online and that supporters of all ideologies are welcome. Nonetheless, Gab immediately attracted users from the far right, including a number of well-known alt-right, extremist, and fringe figures, such as Richard Spencer, Milo Yiannopoulos and Alex Jones, who were losing their mainstream social media platforms around the time Torba launched Gab.

Torba has explained that he was motivated to create Gab during the 2016 presidential election after reading reports that major social media companies like Facebook may unfairly promote posts and topics discussed by liberal users over conservative ones.

“I didn’t set out to build a ‘conservative social network’ by any means, but I felt that it was time for a conservative leader to step up and to provide a forum where anybody can come and speak freely without fear of censorship,” Torba told the Washington Post in November 2016.

“Every major communication outlet, every major social network, is run, owned, controlled and operated by progressive leaders, progressive workers in Silicon Valley,” he said.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gab-founder-andrew-torba-193404160.html


60 posted on 10/30/2018 6:41:16 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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