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Packt reports that Gab's Dissenter browser extension was removed from Mozilla's Firefox add-ons on April 10th (people already using it can continue to do so), and was booted from Google's Chrome browser the next day. Gab pitches itself as an anti-censorship social media platform that only prohibits speech that is illegal. Their Dissenter browser extension and associated website allow people to share comments about any webpage, giving users the ability to share comments on articles, videos, etc., regardless of whether or not the website hosting the content has a comments section. Mozilla's rationale for the ban was that Dissenter was being used to promote violence, hate speech, and discrimination, but they failed to show any examples to bolster that claim. Gab plans to develop their own browser in response.
(Score: 3, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:02PM (22 children)
Good for Gab.
Boo for the morons that put them in the corner.
How hard is it to get this right, people? Apparently, when you have SJW groupthink pulling the strings, very hard.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:14PM (5 children)
most people on gab's like to discuss moronic shit but in this case yes, mozilla people in conformity with corporate mandated rules surpassed all that moronic shit and embarased themselves with their i-can-only-act-as-the-holly-coc-says-cause-i-follow-rules-instead-of-think
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:34PM (4 children)
This is true enough, but then again, the same statement (different moronic shit) applies to all social media as far as I've seen.
Biggest problem I have with GAB is that there's spillover sometimes and you get whackjobs leaving their own channels and slipping their views into unrelated channels. Judicious blocking solves this, but you have to be willing to put up with an occasional idjit long enough to mute-forever.
The keyword is 'occasional', I can manage occasional via muting just fine. This is far Far FAR less annoying (for me) than, for example, Twitter, where it is not occasional but rather an unending stream of reality-free groupthink relentlessly pounding your eyes until your blocklist soars to heights such that Elon could hitch a ride to Mars and save all that development cost.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:43PM (3 children)
Bigger userbase and some filtering or separate "bubbles" could be the answer. Maybe Mastodon [joinmastodon.org].
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(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday April 14 2019, @02:40PM
I do have a mastodon ID floating around, but it's pretty much abandoned.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @03:36PM (1 child)
I would like social networks that avoid bubbles and mix up the freaks with the normies and the intellectual assholes.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday April 14 2019, @03:51PM
I think in the case of Mastodon, you would go to the largest, most general purpose instances.
That's a nice sentiment but I think the large clusterfucks will tend to diverge over time, and the more niche bubbles will be seen as more useful. Smaller forums/communities tend to be more polite, on-topic, and can be focused on a particular interest.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @10:59PM (1 child)
Quite right! Those ISIS recruitment posts and videos are just speech. Sure, someone may take things too far, but that's not the fault of the people posting. The SJWs who want those ISIS posts removed are as bad as the ones who are intolerant of hate speech.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @05:41AM
Everything old is new again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Sunday April 14 2019, @01:44AM (7 children)
It's either silencing nazis or killing them. No other choices are non-fictional.
Every time you scream for a vision of "free speech" that endorses ideologies that mass murder, we move one inch closer to cutting your throat to spare our own. That's life.
(Score: 2, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 14 2019, @05:26AM (5 children)
SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT!!!!1111ELEVENTYONE
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:03PM (4 children)
You're just a fat piece of shit neckbeard nobody who happens to have a vagina.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 14 2019, @06:47PM (3 children)
At 5'10" and 141lb at last weigh-in, I don't think I count as "fat," honey :) If you want "piece of shit," there are any of a number of small-L libertarians who would sell their mothers for dog food for the right price you can get your fill of. It's hard to be a "neckbeard" when you don't actually grow facial hair. And as to nobody, well, sure, we all are here. It's one tiny tech forum out in the middle of the Internet. I rather like it this way.
Sit tight; your Resource Room supervisor is on her way and we're bringing the ramp and the mouthguard. *Do* try not to soil yourself any more than you already have, you poor fragile snowflake...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @10:59PM (2 children)
Side effect of stress and prolonged periods of elevated cortisol in females - but you probably know that. If you were to trim the mustache, give yourself a comb-over and wear an SS uniform... then I think Aristarchus may let you peg him!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 15 2019, @06:01AM (1 child)
Leave me out of your weirdo fetish fantasies. There's one girl I work with who's growing a bit of fuzz and it's really disconcerting to watch.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday April 15 2019, @11:58AM
Facial hair is no basis for a system of government! True authority derives from the mandate of the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony! I mean, if I claimed to be an Emperor, because some moistened Bint lobbed a scimitar at me, even if she did have a rather comely five-0-clock shadow, they'd lock me away!
(No doubt in the cell adjacent to those of the Mad US President, Don, and the Insane SN Editor, Janrinok , so my suffering would be complete, and unending. )
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @11:43AM
No Nazis, no Socialists, no Islamists? Tell us more, oh wise one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:26AM (5 children)
Why didn't they release their awesome new enterprise with a different name and no association with Gab?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 14 2019, @05:46AM (4 children)
Because generations of inbreeding are not conducive to either good opsec or sound decision-making skills? =P
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @10:55PM (3 children)
Wait, I thought Gab was alt-right. Are you saying they are Muslims or have the inbreeding problem too?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 15 2019, @06:09AM (2 children)
I notice a lot of violent, destructive, clannish people with ground-in authoritarian mindsets have an inbreeding problem. Kind of a chicken and egg issue, isn't it? If the rooster that fucked the hen was the same one that impregnated the hen that laid the egg that held the hen the rooster is fucking now. ...shit, that's confusing.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @12:00PM (1 child)
Just this:
https://uproxx.com/news/nazi-group-incest-scandal-traditional-workers-party-explained/ [uproxx.com]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 15 2019, @06:26PM
Aaaaahahaha, yessss, that's the one! :D This is all I will ever think of any time someone mentions groups like the Proud Boys or the TWP or any of the other sad-sack white supremacist mobs out there.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...