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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: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday April 13 2019, @07:47PM (5 children)
It's one thing that makes GAB interesting. It has survived, and apparently prospered, multiple times when I fully expected it to die due to measures being taken against it.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 5, Interesting) by jmorris on Saturday April 13 2019, @08:56PM (4 children)
Now see the horrible truth. A social media service can run on Gab's budget in the face of every hand being set against them. So banned that netcraft doesn't say they are dying because they won't even admit the domain exists. Seriously, go look for yourself! Yes Scalability Mountain sits between Gab and Twitter but it isn't THAT expensive to overcome anymore. So where are the markets seeing $26B of value in Twitter? Or half a trillion in Facebook? Hint: It ain't a good thing.
Gab is currently heavy on political dissidents because those folk have few other options. If that were the whole story the System would be happy to have them safely segregated, and on an open enough platform the FBI, SPLC, etc can keep an eye on it. Vs the dark web, for example. They attack Gab for its users, but they are liars, ALWAYS, so look for the lie. The fear gab for what it could become, what it is the harbinger of. Where social media isn't a feeding frenzy for the Clowns and the marketing agencies. Gab has no ads, operates mostly on donations. Call it donations since the plums offered to subscribers are not much more than Soylent offers, And it lives. Against a world out to destroy it it lives, it grows, it is becoming part an alternate Internet, an alternate financial system. Because it must do these things to live, others will have an easier time following the path they are clearing.
The world is about to change. Many fear this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:39AM
What is this "Gab" you speak of?
(Score: 3, Touché) by ilPapa on Sunday April 14 2019, @06:12AM (2 children)
These jackoffs think unwavering support for the President of the United States makes you a "political dissident".
SMH
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Sunday April 14 2019, @06:21AM (1 child)
You funny. You think Trump is unconditional on gab? Obviously you have never been. They just don't disapprove of the same things you likely do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @11:11AM
jmorris, we all know you let Trump just grab you by the genitals, because that is how positions of authority cream the pants of authoritarian lovers like your self. Did you ever once Touch [soylentnews.org] George Walker Bush, and feel his charisma and manliness? Did you want too? Are you Bi-curious?