Posted on 10/27/2018 8:11:22 PM PDT by DesScorp
Breaking: @joyent, Gabs new hosting provider, has just pulled our hosting service. They have given us until 9am on Monday to find a solution. Gab will likely be down for weeks because of this. Working on solutions. We will never give up on defending free speech for all people.
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> And for that you call him a leftist troll? Stalinistic?
Absolutely. As a Gab user, I know for a fact that his characterization is completely off base.
> A place where porn and racism is accepted?
> and racism is accepted?
> racism is accepted?
> racism
I now suspect there are TWO leftist trolls on this thread.
Supported? Big Tech has acquired monopoly power over several sectors. They started out by being very libertarian and accepting but now that they have managed to build themselves into the monopolies they currently are we are seeing an ever increasing level of censorship.
That is unacceptable and it is time they were either regulated like utilities or broken up via antitrust actions brought by the DOJ.
I was ready to buy a small couple shares of stock. Then began thinking about a good idea from Victor Computer years ago. They just could not get their foot in the door. Hopefully there’s bandwidth for gab.
Please do not confuse aspects of free speech like pornography and racism as conservative values.
If that happens, conservatism will be dead - because it would be like the French Army when the Germans rolled them up in 1940. The French had what were widely regarded as the best tanks, the best artillery and some of the best aircraft in the world. What they didn’t have were widespread radio communication. The Germans slaughtered this superior force by the simple expedient of being able to change and adapt their plans as EVERY German tank and airplane had radios as did most larger infantry formations.
If your enemy has access to modern comms and you don’t, you lose. Check into the history of modern resistance movements since WW1 - there has never been a successful resistance since 1911 against a popular government (read: cowed/conned/sedated populace) that had media controls without massive outside technical and monetary assistance. Where would conservatives get assistance from outside the US?
Complete BS. Violence is forbidden and has not been tolerated since August on Gab. Free speech is which is a wonderful thing.
WTF? Isn't anti-TRUMP?
Megan Kelly TALKS about black face —> fired
Sarah Silverman APPEARS in black face —> no consequences
Host antisemitic statements —> shut down
Silverman “I’m PROUD we killed Jesus! I’d kill him again..!” —> No consequences
Gab.ai could use bitmitigste.net as a DDS host running behind a Volxility.net cloud data center. Other free-speech sites use a similar arrangement, especially if on a tight budget. I think that’s what www.voat.com uses. They’d be better off switching to a ***.name registration to have a safe domain cloud. At least I hope that’s how Gab goes forward, or something similar.
There is a reason Tim Berners-Lee is trying to reinvent the Web with his new Solid-Inrupt startup: to return it to a free Internet.
In the US of A, free speech IS a conservative value. And not just a conservative value, but one of the key foundation values that makes an American conservative.
That this is news to you at all means you are something other than.
Really? You think conservatism hinges on pornography and racism? Well then by all means post some porn and some racism right here on FR.
Be my guest.
Oh please. You dont have to see either pornography or racism on Gab. To see pornography, one has to agree to see NSFW in ones settings. As for racism, all one need do is mute the poster or such words that one doesnt want to see which will preven one from seeing the post.
> Really? You think conservatism hinges on pornography and racism?
I can see that you, a distinctly NOT conservative individual, need an education.
The idea of free speech, enshrined in the First Amendment, is the legacy of the Enlightenment. This idea was best encapsulated by Voltaire in the quote “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
An American conservative will defend to the death the right of individuals to say things he does not approve of, and indeed we have graveyards filled with individuals who have done just that.
Now that we know you are not conservative, I have to wonder if you are also not American.
Pretty sure Reno and yourself are at minimum left leaning; very possibly antifa.
Where do you keep getting this racism and pornography? Its free speech so if a user doesnt want to see such things, set it up in the settings to not see it. Once setup, you wont see it again unless you are looking for something in particular, at which point you unset it to go find it such as I did this morning with the Nazi that murdered 11 people. His posts were muted; so I had to unmute to go see all that he had posted. Thank goodness I was able to do so or I would not have known what this guy was all about.
It seems a lot of people viewed Gab as their own safe space. Their own pretty little park where conservatives could go after they were banned from Twitter or Facebook. Well too bad too sad.
Conservatives there allowed the park to get nasty and dirty. I suggest these people were fooled and duped by leftist trolls who trashed their pretty little park and got the place shut down Why? Because conservatives were not strong enough to stand up against the hatred, racism and pornography.
"...pornography and racism on GAB..."
Well, ain't you the one!
Still waiting on that porn you think is conservative to be posted here at FR. Youre mighty brave with insults. Where are you with posting porn? Chicken?
Can you see the media calling these creeps ‘far left’? Nope.
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