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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @01:20AM (8 children)
No, we defend ourselves against those doing the manipulation. Afford sympathy to those you believe to have been mislead but never condescension because history proves that even the best of us are capable of being deceived.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @01:45AM (7 children)
Don't care. Your way is too arbitrary. People must be held responsible for the choices they make. You're just trying to justify censorship. Censorship is always fascist. We must defeat it using any means possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @11:32AM (2 children)
The OP, easily manipulated, needs to be protected from his own gulliblity and cognitive dissonance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @12:17PM (1 child)
Nah, I'm a libertarian (liberal, anti-authoritarian), you? [simplypsychology.org]
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday April 15 2019, @12:37PM
Nah, Libertarians are amoung the most gullible people, when it comes to overpriced "survival rations in a bucket" or really, really old Chinese AK rounds, and "Land in Idaho". In fact, the best mark for a con, is another con. Said this in that movie, The Sting [imdb.com]
I hear Khallow has great deals on backhoe futures! Or was it, "pasts"? Tulips? Brexits? Or Kellogg's High Colonics?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @12:14PM (3 children)
Yes and incitement is an inchoate offense -- not a protected form of self expression.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @01:15AM (2 children)
That is bullshit. Speech is not incitement. It cannot compel action against one's will. You must choose to act, and you cannot blame others for your choices. You alone are to blame. There is no justification for censorship. It is always fascist. We must end it. I don't care how.
However! Do keep it down please...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @12:11PM (1 child)
Wrong [crimemuseum.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @10:43PM
You can repeat the bullshit all you want. It's still bullshit, on the internet.
Censorship is fascist.. It must be defeated. It's for the lack of personal will that we need technology to do the job, so that maybe one individual's invention can free us all from the tyranny of the majority.