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, @09:30PM
Also please note that Joylent is owned by Samsung.
So the US taxpayers pay for a military that protects South Korea, where Samsung is, so that Samsung's subsidiary can turn around and attack the freedom of speech of Americans. How very nice of them.