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Gab, the social network that has welcomed Qanon and extremist figures, explained (Gab smear begins)
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Posted on 01/12/2021 10:22:21 AM PST by janetjanet998

After Twitter banned President Trump, and the hosting company Amazon Web Services suspended conservative network Parler, another social media site found its name in the news: Gab. The site, which looks like a mash-up of Twitter and Facebook, calls itself “the free speech social network” and has welcomed extremist right-wing figures and believers of QAnon, the loose collection of conspiracy theories that touch on everything from politics to covid-19.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: gab; stoppostingbs
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To: SkyDancer

There is probably an active Deny of Service attack going on at Gab.


21 posted on 01/12/2021 10:45:19 AM PST by Zathras
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To: janetjanet998
What these idiots in the media do not understand is that by their actions, they are creating echo chambers. As conservatives emigrate away from the left wing managed social media sites, we simply move to a right wing site. There are no centrist sites because they would be boring. All they have done is divide us even more and if this explodes in to real levels of violence, the will share the blame.

Torba has taken so much crap from these people, he no longer cares what they say or think about him.

22 posted on 01/12/2021 10:49:28 AM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me.)
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To: Halls

I did too. I entered my email and pswrd during setup, it was supposed to send me a confirmation email and my phone just froze on that page. I think their system is overwhelmed because it did set up my account even though I never received the confirmation and had to shut down the sign-up page.


23 posted on 01/12/2021 10:50:14 AM PST by Paco
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To: Zathras

There is probably an active Deny of Service attack going on at Gab.


I signed up yesterday. Painfully slow, had to reload pages several times to get through the email confirmation process and start following other gabbers.

Logging in today, the process is different, takes 5-10 seconds, and has “DDOS protection by CloudFlare” banner.

Though I think most of the slowness yesterday and today is due to Gab’s struggle to meet legitimate demand for new accounts and usage, there is definitely a malicious component working as well.

Glad they own their own hardware and have taken steps to prevent DDOS attacks. Hope their ISP isn’t bullied into cutting them off.


24 posted on 01/12/2021 11:01:58 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: janetjanet998

Did you know that neo-nazis and kiddie porn creeps communicate using Verizon, AT&T, Apple, and google made phones and/or networks? And over Comcast networks? Pass it on!


25 posted on 01/12/2021 11:04:15 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: janetjanet998

BARF ALERT.😝


26 posted on 01/12/2021 11:04:57 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: janetjanet998

Gab, like Free Republic, allows assholes trolls and posers to post with impunity. The more intelligent and responsible grown ups spot right away them and their agenda. Q was an unfortunate phenomena that swept up many naive patriots in a myriad of platforms into a false hope. Some of us here on FR were even caught up in it, to an extent that we partook in or humored it’s discussion. Gab shows great promise to become as much a solid platform as FR has become. We learn to ignore antagonistic behavior and in fighting as unproductive and time wasting and are more and more aware and weary of possible plants by the enemy. Just step around the pile of shit and move on. It’s always going to be there but we see better these days. The enemy is showing it’s hand in more and more obvious ways because of the panic and desperation in their futile attempt to destroy us. I don’t put Q in that “pile of shit” but any thing of a disheartening nature is usually accompanied by dark forces.


27 posted on 01/12/2021 11:05:34 AM PST by Rainwave ("Work out your OWN salvation with fear and trembling")
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To: RangerM

NNTP servers for newsgroups are out there and news readers are open source. We just got to pick one set of them and use secure communications to them. The bandwidth for 60,000,000 users was less than a bad netflix movie back in the day.

The press can stay with their blue checks, the rest of us, as we see here just need a bit of place to throw up words.


28 posted on 01/12/2021 11:06:16 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: janetjanet998

WashPoo the billionaire’s paper that ran stories planted by the CIA....


29 posted on 01/12/2021 11:08:36 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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Great Purge 2021
30 posted on 01/12/2021 11:08:36 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
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To: janetjanet998

Begins AGAIN you mean !


31 posted on 01/12/2021 11:14:27 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Zathras

Yeah, tried yesterday and got some sort of internet message saying site was unavailable.


32 posted on 01/12/2021 11:16:02 AM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: janetjanet998

Not Twit or Fakebook or Compost. Was there something more I needed to know?


33 posted on 01/12/2021 11:17:45 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: SkyDancer

They have been up and down with the need for new bandwidth to take on more subscribers, e.g. almost 700,000 in one day.


34 posted on 01/12/2021 11:18:45 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: janetjanet998

If you really want to see the Gab smear, then checkout the Wikipedia for GAB. You’d think it was the private chat site of the KKK.


35 posted on 01/12/2021 11:19:09 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: janetjanet998

Thank you Washington post,I am now registered on Gab!!!


36 posted on 01/12/2021 11:32:36 AM PST by ballplayer
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To: Paco
It's a goldmeme.


37 posted on 01/12/2021 11:42:08 AM PST by SanchoP ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." )
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To: SanchoP

Oh my...(the creativity of some people NEVER ceases to amaze me)


38 posted on 01/12/2021 12:07:02 PM PST by Paco
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To: janetjanet998

Still having issue with GAB - it seems very Beta, not ready for prime time at all


39 posted on 01/12/2021 12:07:22 PM PST by The Louiswu (Dylan is right once more...”The times, they are a changing”)
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To: janetjanet998

40 posted on 01/12/2021 12:14:53 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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