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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @08:18PM
Oh yes, the "impartial" ADL.
I would think you were smart enough to see bullshit when you see it, but I guess not. Here are classic trappings of a framing. No breakdown by year (harder to fact check), no definition of "extrimist-related" (what does that mean?), and of course the fucking topping on the cake: a shitty "disclaimer". So if a guy shot someone in a dispute, and he had an Alex Jones tatoo, well then he was a Nazi doing terrorism?
I'd love to find what study they linked this shit to, just os I can tear it to pieces, but being on that site just fucking sickens me. It's the most disgusting peddler of victimhood and disinformation I seen in recent month.