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martyb
on Monday October 29 2018, @08:15AM
from the social-commentary-on-social-media dept.
from the social-commentary-on-social-media dept.
The social network gab.com is apparently going down on Monday, October 29th at 09:00 ET. Their ISP has terminated their services, ostensibly because Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh mass shooting suspect, had made offensive posts on Gab.
To get this out of the way: I have mixed feelings about Gab, more specifically, about the founders. However, the idea that some social network somewhere should refuse to censor anything that is not outright illegal? This is good. Social media has become the modern "market square", and free speech should be guaranteed, even if the platforms are technically private.
If you want free speech, you apparently don't want to be in the U.S.
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Social Media and the Pittsburgh Shooter: Gab.com Going Down
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Graduate life: It's not just a job. It's an indenture.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @10:47AM (3 children)
Correction: They are not Americans. Some of them may be physical residents, but they are no Americans.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 29 2018, @10:52AM
citation needed
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @01:48PM (1 child)
No True Scotsman [yourlogicalfallacyis.com]
Honestly, I rarely see it stated so plainly; usually when people display their inability to think they're at least not quite as obvious about it.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @07:25PM
git trulled biatch