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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, Insightful) by jmorris on Monday October 29 2018, @07:29PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Monday October 29 2018, @07:29PM (#755292)

    Don't even try reason with these people. Orange man bad. Another man did a bad thing. The bad Orange man responsible. That is about the limit of their arguments. When a supposed (guy was registered Dim by screenshots I saw until after he was arrested, his social media was following lots Lefties and his pro Trump posts thus only occasionally getting a like and looked machine generated, etc. lots of alarm bells) Trump supporter sends fake prank bombs it is Trump's fault. Now a guy who hates Trump shoots up a joint and that too is Trump's fault. Bernie Bro shoots Rep Scalise and guess what, that was Trump's fault too for "creating a climate of hate." So if you piss off the left and they shoot you it is your fault for pissing them off, that is really all you need to know.

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