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Social Media and the Pittsburgh Shooter: Gab.com Going Down

posted by martyb on Monday October 29 2018, @08:15AM   
from the social-commentary-on-social-media dept.

bradley13 writes:

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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• Re:Don't block them Re:Don't block them (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday October 29 2018, @11:26AM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Monday October 29 2018, @11:26AM (#755030) Journal

  And, the wife expects me to shoot dumb animals that become nuisances.

  Oh dear. Living daily only one step away from death.
  We really don't like to see you being asked to commit suicide, take good care not to annoy her, will you?

  (grin)

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• Re:Don't block them (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday October 29 2018, @11:35AM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Monday October 29 2018, @11:35AM (#755034) Journal

  "Get the armadillo gun [cnn.com], Bernie [wikipedia.org]!"

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