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posted by martyb on Monday October 29 2018, @08:15AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @07:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @07:17PM (#755286)

    There is a difference between the 1st Amendment and the concept of Free Speech. The 1st amendment disallows the government from impeding on your right to free speech. Free speech as a concept is literally what it says. Free speech. No government involved. No qualifiers.

    That is the worst xkcd ever published.

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