Posted on 10/29/2018 6:59:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
Gab has gone offline.
The self-described "free speech social media platform" is taking time off the internet, after landing under the spotlight when it was discovered the suspect involved in Pittsburgh's synagogue shooting was a poster and user on the site.
SEE ALSO: Gab, a racist-friendly alt-Twitter, has been banned by PayPal and others
Gab posted a message on its homepage, announcing that the site will be "inaccessible for a period of time" as it works "around the clock" to transition a new hosting provider.
The platform has been banned by PayPal, and fellow online payment service Stripe is looking to cut off the site. Gab's new hosting service, Joyent, reportedly will suspend the site from 9 a.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 29.
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Gab.com🍂 (@getongab) October 29, 2018
Gab's domain registrar, GoDaddy, has also asked for the platform to take its business elsewhere.
"We have informed Gab.com that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service," GoDaddy told Mashable in a statement.
"In response to complaints received over the weekend, GoDaddy investigated and discovered numerous instances of content on the site that both promotes and encourages violence against people."
BREAKING: @GoDaddy is threatening to suspend our domain (which is worth six figures) if we do not transfer to a new provider by tomorrow. This is madness. @realDonaldTrump @parscale I hope you are paying attention. pic.twitter.com/5hsXKW5NvB
Gab.com🍂 (@getongab) October 29, 2018
Publishing platform Medium has also recently suspended Gab's account, under which the social site had made a statement stating that it "unequivocally disavows and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence." This statement has now been made unavailable.
Mashable has reached out to Medium for comment.
Gab is now banned from @medium, they are silencing our statement on the shooting. Here is an archive of it. You are pathetic @ev https://t.co/NJoT22v7WU https://t.co/m0AtHsBp4Q
Gab.com🍂 (@getongab) October 29, 2018
Free speech is an illusion, a badly performed magic trick..
Free Speech is often misunderstood.
The king never cared if the people on the street talked poorly about him. No ruler really does.
It’s the media. And even in America, after the Revolutionary War, government officials were STILL placed in the printing offices to ensure that things were “truthful”.
Yes, this was in our America.
This is why the amendment was written. The first amendment is there to protect news printers, authors, artists and others who influence our society. Rulers don’t give a crap about what peons say. As long as the peon works the fields and provides the commonwealth they can say whatever they want.
But if someone important says something to get those people out of the fields, then a ruler pays attention. And usually shuts up the critic permanently.
It’s the influencers who are the focus of the freedom of speech.
I have ZERO “right” to say to you things of any topic or nature. I have no right to insult you, say racist crap or anything. I may have a god-given right of being able to move my lips and tongue to make sounds at things but there is no actual right there in the Constitution to do so.
The Second Amendment, of which I bring everything to, also does not give us a right to defend ourselves. That’s a god-given right, something we have a right to anywhere in the universe. This amendment tells the government how to behave in regards to arming us at their expense. Which they wholly have neglected and are derelict in .
Finally, everything in the Constitution is not aimed at us. It does not give us anything. It doesn’t even address us. It’s a rulebook for the government and it tells THEM how to behave. Not us. It tells the government what and how to support us and make us successful.
Cmon people. Dont just scream free speech and condemn. If you were a regular over there then you know it became a cesspool of HATE speech against Jews. You could block people, but the next time you opened Gab there was another one. And this free speech discussed killing and murder. For me, that takes MY concept of free speech over the line. I dont need that crap in my computer screen and I chose to leave it behind. (It makes you realize what a fine line Jim Robinson has to walk and how well he does it.)
Racist friendly? That’s the same thing FRs detractors say about us, without bothering to read the responses to truly racist comments appearing here. I’m sure a number of such comments disappear before we see them, but the few remaining generally are rejected by most of us.
But now TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.
FreeZoxee looks reasonable. I’ll have to take a closer look at it.
I completely agree!
The truth is hate to those that hate the truth!
The Chiefio pondered the solution to counter censoring the internet, found much of the ground work already done.
“Mesh VPN for P2P Networked Services”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/mesh-vpn-for-p2p-networked-services/
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I’m well aware of the drawbacks of banking, but the kind of stuff you mention is strictly low level and infrequent.
Can’t support any sizeable operation that way.
You really are leftist!! In thought and speech! Why did you even inject child porn?
Speaking of trolls; you fit that perfectly too.
Gab today, freerepublic tomorrow.
I'm surprised you're not boycotting FR and Jim Robinson since they block trolls, NeoNazis, and hate speech (whatever that may be, as determined by the mods).
No, I guess you don't, do you?
You still here? I thought you'd be sticking to your principles and boycotting FR.
No argument there.
I detest the neoNazis for their antiSemitic hatred and memes against the evil JOOOOs and hope that they will nevery gain power and credibility they seek. They only believe in free speech until they can beat down those that oppose them, and when they gain power, there is NO free speech. Their heroes and models are Hitler, Goebbels, Eichmann, Mengelo and other mass murderers of mankind.
NeoNazis are not right wing. They are just slightly to the left of Communists, and just another flavor of totalitarians.
Whoops!
If you dont think antisemitism exists, you arent paying attention. Just because the modern antisemites switched swastika pennants for professorships, dont believe for a moment that their hatred has abated. Theres a generation of college students who have been indoctrinated more thoroughly than Hitler youth. The vitriolic hatred heaped upon the nation and people of Israel is unrelenting and has become so ubiquitous as to be unremarkable in academic settings.
Yes.
That’s why we need to have binary-gender labeled port-o-potties of hand for and fight. While they turn on those to vent their anger over transphobia we can flank them with heavily armed Rednecks in trucks (cavalry) and crush them.
I must wonder if the Left suckered conservatives into opposing net neutrality, with the please dont throw me into the brier patch protests they made.
They shut down StormFront and other Neo-Nazi sites. They had to go somewhere.
another site that has popped up is wrongthink.net
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