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From the very richest Forbes Magazine (reprint) come news of a nefarious plot:
There's no better example of the power, and the terror, inspired by blockchain than Gab.com, the social network used by the accused Pittsburgh synagogue gunman to threaten Jews.
About a month and a half before the alleged gunman made good on those threats by opening fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue and killing 11 people, Gab submitted paperwork to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $10 million via an initial coin offering (ICO). The offering, dated September 18, 2018, has so far received commitments to raise $5.6 million in capital for the "free speech" social network, which is a favorite of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other members of the "alt-right."
Since the shooting on Saturday, Gab has been shut down by a host of mainstream services including payment processors Stripe and Paypal, Web-hosting company Joyent and briefly, domain registry GoDaddy. But that might not matter, because Gab has already taken the first step toward freeing itself from dependence on traditional infrastructure and support mechanisms, thanks to its funding via the ethereum blockchain. Ultimately Gab's goal is to build an entire ecosystem beyond the reach of centralized authorities—whether Facebook, Twitter or venture capitalists—making it nearly indestructible. On this, the tenth anniversary of the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto's whitepaper, which gave birth to bitcoin, Gab epitomizes the darker consequences of his vision.
[...] Gab can also use other blockchain services if mainstream providers try to kick it off the internet by refusing to provide critical services. If Gab needs to replace GoDaddy for domain service (the addresses people use to find websites), Ethereum Name Service provides domains for decentralized applications built on the ethereum blockchain. Web hosting? No problem. Ethereum's Substratum provides a decentralized alternative to Joyent. Others have already pioneered the idea. PeepEth is a nascent ethereum-powered social network, and Mastadon is a blockchain-based Twitter.
Previously: Social Media and the Pittsburgh Shooter: Gab.com Going Down
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @12:26PM (9 children)
Um, no. But the site clearly embraces hate speech (just look at the content and users they promote when you visit the site).
The Pittsburgh shooter is not the only extremist on Gab. In fact, based on the few hours I spent reviewing posts on Gab last Saturday, it is safe to say the Pittsburgh shooter is nowhere near the right edge of the bell curve of posters.
It's funny, but some of the same "don't censor us! free speech!" proponents of sites like Gab want content from people they label as terroists removed from the internet.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @01:09PM (8 children)
Hilarious isn't it? Imagine if alwaleed bin talal were a major Twitter shareholder and the same standard were applied to Islamist groups on Twitter. Imagine if the lefts "anti-zionism" were investigated [bbc.co.uk] under "hate speech" laws these dipshits pushed for. Incitement, credible threats and defamation were already legally actionable. There is no "hate speech" and if there were Sarah Jeong, Don the Lemon and by extension their employers would need to be shut down (Goodbye NYT & CNN).
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @02:30PM (7 children)
That's a bit of a reach, but you keep trying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @04:55PM (6 children)
Awkward [twitter.com] and you can give yourself the reach around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @05:21PM (5 children)
Why is every single citation soooo bad when you types try and point out "both sides!!!"
There is a massive difference between supporting hate speech and mistakenly putting up a trending topic. Twitter apologized, think you'll get Gab to apologize for hosting literal Nazis?
You tools repeatedly show your stupidity, it is no surprise you get mocked for it all the time. There must be some connection between stupidity and racism. Makes sense to me, only stupid people can be so scared of other normal human beings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @05:38PM (3 children)
Context matters now does it? [youtube.com]
Where did Twitter apologize for hosting Islamists and left wing
anti-zionistsanti-semites?Must be; ridiculous insults and double standards too!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @06:00PM (2 children)
Well, if you don't like it why don't you go post on Gab? What, they were given the boot by their service providers for being so vile that corporate America didn't even want their money? Wow ... looks like an invisible backhand from the market.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @09:02PM (1 child)
May do, free speech is preferable to cynically monetizing extremism. [theintercept.com] Or by the standard of guilt by association, UK Labour [wikipedia.org] hamas and Farrakhan hosting Twitter must also be corporately deplatformed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @11:25PM
Deplatform, deplane, degauss ... just don't delay my lunch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2018, @06:52PM
Do you consider identity to be a connection? This is why we can't have white supremacy! White people are too dumb! Especially the ones who are so dumb they think they are superior! Dunning-Kroeger iin overdrive, so to speak. Too stupid to recognize how stupid they are, to the point they take that as a sign of smartness!