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Alt-right social media network Gab goes dark
NY Post ^ | February 19, 2021 | 8:34pm | Jesse O’Neill

Posted on 02/19/2021 5:46:26 PM PST by conservative98

Gab, a social network favored by the alt-right that exploded in popularity after the riots at the US Capitol, was offline Friday evening, and its Twitter account also went dark.

Twitter users first started posting that the website and its associated social media account went down at around 6:30 p.m. Eastern time.

At least one Twitter user who claimed to be on Gab just before it went dark Friday night speculated that the site was hacked as a part of a cryptocurrency scam. The Post could not verify that theory.

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1 posted on 02/19/2021 5:46:26 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

What makes a social media site “alt-right”?


2 posted on 02/19/2021 5:47:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Not being advocates of marxism


3 posted on 02/19/2021 5:49:19 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: BenLurkin

If it’s alt-right, it’s because it’s in the light.


4 posted on 02/19/2021 5:49:28 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: conservative98

But Twitter isn’t radical left? Has the NY Post ever put that in a headline about Twitter.


5 posted on 02/19/2021 5:50:08 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: conservative98

trends.gab.com is up.

but gab.com is down for me.


6 posted on 02/19/2021 5:51:21 PM PST by dadfly
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To: BenLurkin

Hilary made that phrase up. Just for the h*ll of it.


7 posted on 02/19/2021 5:52:24 PM PST by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

Anything that isn’t alt-left or heavily censored.


8 posted on 02/19/2021 5:52:51 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: dadfly

Their twitter account is gone completely. This is the company that was trying to embarrass parler. Apparently they just got cancelled, too.

https://twitter.com/getongab?lang=en

@getongab
This account doesn’t exist


9 posted on 02/19/2021 5:57:12 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

As an alt-righter, I’m freaking out!


10 posted on 02/19/2021 5:57:32 PM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: conservative98

I am a Gab user. It went offline. Suddenly. Without warning prior to it going dark. One moment it was fine. There was no glitchiness. No indication whatsoever there might be a problem. Then. It simply in an instant became inaccessible. And remains so at this time. 8:57 Eastern.


11 posted on 02/19/2021 5:58:27 PM PST by ocrp1982
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To: Lurkinanloomin; BenLurkin; conservative98
What makes a social media site "alt-right"?

Anything that isn’t alt-left or heavily censored.

I think the "alt" part of it hearkens back in a way to that Wild West of the Internet of yesteryear, the USENET groups. Many of the "alt" groups had some of the most interesting discussions around.

On a related note, it seems in the past few weeks that Youtube has taken on a rather raggedly look, akin to the shelves in a dollar store after a hurricane or snowstorm. There's nothing much left to pick from. I suppose anything really interesting has been censored or demonetized. You can only look at so many classical music or animal videos.

12 posted on 02/19/2021 6:02:05 PM PST by thecodont
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To: conservative98

It bacame popular after Conservatives were banned from twitter in mass, it didn’t have anything to do with events at the Capital.


13 posted on 02/19/2021 6:03:35 PM PST by Husker24
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To: conservative98

The Gab CEO was on Bannon’s ‘War Room’ yesterday, wearing a ‘Make Speech Free Again’ hat...good interview; someone must have been ‘triggered’.


14 posted on 02/19/2021 6:05:42 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: ocrp1982

I noticed they were suddenly offline earlier too. Gabs big weakness that it uses Cloud flare for DDos protection. And CF has a history of dumping sites that tick off the deep-state.

Not sure that is what is happening here since I get a message that Gab’s server is down. So it may be nothing more than a failure of the Gab server.


15 posted on 02/19/2021 6:05:42 PM PST by Revel
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To: conservative98
Got an email from Gab yesterday (the 18th). The marxists/communists/hate America crowds are undoubtedly looking to close them down as a threat to their agenda.

The link to the post on their site is still working as of now:

It’s Time To Build Our Own Economy
By Andrew Torba Post date February 17, 2021

 

The problem with the American Populist movement is that it was centralized.

Centralized movements give the enemy a central attack vector to target and overcome. One man, who took on the weight of the world, became the sole focus of both the enemy and of the American Populist movement itself for over five years.

The oligarchs removed that one man from the entire internet, then they removed him from office. Everyone knows this, we all watched it happen. What no one has clearly defined is where American Populism goes from here.

The oligarchs believe that they have destroyed American Populism by rigging an election, removing the movement’s leader from public view, and by forcing everyone to stay locked inside for a year while the country burns down around us all.

They think they have won and want to define “New Normal” under their rule as they consolidate power. What they don’t realize is that they have recruited tens of millions of Americans to the side of reason, light, and Truth. Many millions of these people didn’t even vote for Donald Trump, but they recognize what is happening to our country and want to stop it.

Over the course of the past year I’ve seen comments across the internet become increasingly “red pilled” and aware of the Big Lies being pushed by the corporate media and frauds in government. It turns out that keeping people locked inside on the internet for an entire year ends up illuminating a lot of minds.

The People are learning what the real problem is: the globalist oligarchs. Not any one politician. Not this political party or that one. The entire system is corrupt. Banks, tech companies, media companies, schools, government, and on and on.

We must exit this broken and failing system and start building a new one immediately. We are not revolutionaries. We are not violent. We are reformers. We are builders. When we up and leave the existing system in favor of our own the existing system will crumble without us lifting a finger.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”- Buckminster Fuller

The way around centralized problems in the movement is to decentralize American Populism at the local level. In order to take our country back and move forward with the American Populist movement we must first take our local communities back. Here are several examples of this happening across the country:

Big Tech’s Unlikely Next Battleground: North Dakota

Montana Bill Would Designate Antifa as Domestic Terrorism

Florida restaurant goes viral for ‘face diapers not required’ mask policy

We must build our own economy.

  1. Pull your positions out of their useless stock market and buy bitcoin, gold, silver, food stores, and ammo. Bitcoin is free speech money. Learn what it is and how to use it. Now.
  2. National elections are a big distraction. Members of Congress are bought and sold like cattle by the oligarchs, foreign nations, and whoever has the money. Instead center your focus on getting American Populists and Christian men and women elected mayor, to state legislatures, as judges, on school boards, etc.
  3. Cut the cable cord. That includes both Fox and CNN. Do not watch it. Do something else with your time and money. Support alternative media outlets and individuals. Get that garbage marxist indoctrination content machine our of your home and away from your family.
  4. Exit the Big Tech mind prison. Join Gab.
  5. If your church has gone “woke,” leave. We have room for only one Gospel in Christian churches and that’s the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not the imitation false gospel of “social justice.”
  6. Leave Big Banks for local community banks.
  7. Start supporting small local shops.
  8. Create pro-family, pro-business, and pro-law and order policies for your local area. We can’t control DC, but we can control what happens in our backyards.
  9. Pull your kids out of public schools where their minds are being molded at the altar of marxism. Do everything and anything you can to homeschool or attend Christian private schools or online schooling programs.
  10. Pay attention to the brands you buy and support. Check out their websites and marketing. If they are “woke,” stop giving them your money. Period.

We must also work to unite American Populists on the left and the right. What unites the left and right wing populists, and Americans in general, is Jesus Christ.

The trasnhumanist nihilists and their technocracy are offering nothing of spiritual value. The Gospel Message of Jesus Christ, and that of American Populism, is one of redemption, hope, love, dominion, sovereignty, freedom and forgiveness. None of these things are possible with critical theory or woke consumer crony capitalism paired with a corporate techno tyranny.

What are you waiting for?

Let’s get to work, we have a new economy to build.

Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
February 17th, 2021
Jesus is King


16 posted on 02/19/2021 6:05:55 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: conservative98

Gabs twitter was taken out sometime back. It did not just happen today.


17 posted on 02/19/2021 6:07:28 PM PST by Revel
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To: BenLurkin

What makes a social media site “alt-right”?


Leftists who follow Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

Conservatves should follow them too.


18 posted on 02/19/2021 6:07:59 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: bitt; LucyT

Ping.


19 posted on 02/19/2021 6:08:17 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Chickensoup

Pick Alyssa Milano and Rob Reiner, freeze them, personalize them and polarize them.

Hey, it’s a start.


20 posted on 02/19/2021 6:10:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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