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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: 4, Informative) by jmorris on Monday October 29 2018, @07:44PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Monday October 29 2018, @07:44PM (#755302)

    There aren't any. The banned have already tried everything. Visa and Mastercard are the blockage, none trades without the mark of one or both of those beasts. When you get the Paypal / Stripe ban you find every smaller processor will also refuse your business and you can't even make your own. Loss of hosting is bad, loss of the financial system is death. Ask Alex Jones or RooshV, both have tried everything to run a credit card and hit a brock wall. Roosh has already put his website in deep freeze mode because he can't get money and Alex Jones will run out of operating reserves soon enough.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 30 2018, @10:44AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 30 2018, @10:44AM (#755560) Homepage Journal

    I wouldn't sweat it. If big corps can have shell companies, so can we. Hell, we've been meaning to set up a 501(c)(3) since the very beginning. Plus, we've got nothing against taking checks, money orders, or cash.

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