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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: 2, Interesting) by jmorris on Saturday April 13 2019, @09:09PM (6 children)
Collusion was an obscure and little used word a few years ago but now it is a big thing. So lets notice it in contexts other than the busted Russia! Russia! Russia! hoax, shall we?
These bannings always go in rapid fire, such that there almost has to be collusion. Moz bans dissenter, Google follows within 24 hours. Amazon bans a book, B&N have it gone within 24 hours as well. Far too many cases for it to be random chance. Collusion.
Time to investigate Big Tech. Time to break up Big Tech like the railroads and Standard Oil were broken up.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @09:26PM
It's not collusion, it's activist pressure groups like the now disgraced SPLC [onenewsnow.com] and the Soros funded Media Matters. [foxnews.com] The true meaning of "woke" will be when companies can no longer deny these activist groups are hypocritical, sociopathic grifters.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 13 2019, @10:56PM (4 children)
We have alternatives, to Mozilla, Google, Amazon, B&N, etc. Let them go nuts. There's no reason to break them up, unless they can block access to the alternatives. That's what the railroads and big oil did, and what the ISPs can do.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Saturday April 13 2019, @11:35PM (3 children)
Look how much trouble gab has had trying to do the alternative thing. Paypal, Stripe, StartEngine, several more all removed their ability to do business. Multiple hosting companies refused them service, attempts were made to seize their domain names. Any new project seen as "Alt-Tech" will have the same problems. Google is removing search results now for unpersoned people and entities. So yea they are going to give blocking access to alternatives the good old college try. The only card they haven't played yet is having the ISPs block access, probably because they fear giving Trump a good excuse to turn the FCC loose.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 13 2019, @11:47PM (1 child)
Look how much trouble gab has had trying to do the alternative thing.
Despite all that, they're still standing... It can still be done, for now... the audience is very small. I think we all know what will happen if things get serious.
So yea they are going to give blocking access to alternatives the good old college try.
Only a listing is being removed, that's okay. It just means we have to run our own web crawlers. Problems don't arise until they cut the cable/jam the signal.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @09:43AM
More like squatting, and doing what squatting more than not is a pretext for! Without the benefit of the technology of indoor toilets!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 15 2019, @05:59AM
This is the Invisible Hand of the Free Market (TM) (C) (R) giving Gab a massive digitus impudicus. This is the companies' prerogative. Suck it up, cockholster; this is the end result of your "companies can do whatever they want because muh libertarianism!" idiocy. You and your kind made your bed, pissed in it, and now you get to lay in it.
What are you, some kinda commie? WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM?!111111ONE
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...