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posted by martyb on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-talk-about-it dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @11:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @11:39PM (#829166)

    Then let them start their own payment processors, web hosting, and domain registrars! This whole "We go out of our way to offend as many people as possible but they don't like it and won't do businesses with us! Whaaaa!" entitlement is pure bullshit.

    The thing is that this is a totally dishonest argument because you don't believe it's reasonable to expect that people be able to start their own payment processor, web hosting, and domain registrar companies, And, you don't even have to try to offend people in order for people to be offended.

    I am a principled progressive who is skeptical of corporations and the 'free market' across the board. That is why this current trend of deplatforming people and even deplatforming platforms is concerning to me. Right now, it might be targeted at people you don't like, but since mega-corporations are not even remotely on your side, you'll find that people you do like will eventually be targeted. In fact, that has already happened: Youtube's so-called adpocalypse affected far more people than just neo-nazis, including many small progressive news channels.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @12:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @12:54AM (#829189)

    The thing is that this is a totally dishonest argument because you don't believe it's reasonable to expect that people be able to start their own payment processor, web hosting, and domain registrar companies,

    This is ultimately what will happen.

    I am a principled progressive who is skeptical of corporations and the 'free market' across the board.

    I don't know why you're skeptical of the free market but the corporatism of the modern left is concerning. Fascism is corporatism.

    That is why this current trend of deplatforming people and even deplatforming platforms is concerning to me. Right now, it might be targeted at people you don't like, but since mega-corporations are not even remotely on your side, you'll find that people you do like will eventually be targeted. In fact, that has already happened: Youtube's so-called adpocalypse affected far more people than just neo-nazis, including many small progressive news channels.

    IIRC it was youtube channels for LBTQ youth hardest hit, courtesy of an NYT hit piece on Pewdiepie. The establishment, global-homo left has gone completely nuts as their narrative self-destructs due to inherent contradictions. Countless former progressives like myself are forced to side with the center right and still the fools double down on their divisive nonsense. The left was always against globalization and mass-immigration because we stood for the common man. We were against persecution of anybody based on skin color, ethnicity or sexual proclivity. We won, we created the most equal and fair society in all of human history yet the modern "left" are openly racist and side with corporations. They're not left wing, they are not for progress and they do not speak for me. Modern "progressives" are authoritarians who would all have been Christian social conservatives just 20 years ago -- I despise both positions and the personalities involved equally.