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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:46AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @04:46AM (#829246)

    Civil war? What, the twenty or so "friends of jmorris" on Gab, furiously sockpuppeting to make it look like they are a force to be reckoned with? https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/02/hate-speech-social-media-site-gab-caught-inflating-numbers/ [lgbtqnation.com]

    It's gonna be Waco all over again! But with out the Messiah complex and pederasty. Or Ruby Ridge! Or The Montana Freemen out in central Montana! Or the Malheur Refuge, with industrial size barrels of lube. Yep, at it would take is some visionary like Charles Manson to start the race war and bring on the utopia of Whiteness.

    This is why we cannot have white supremacist, and what makes it NOT ok to be white. These white people lack basic cognitive function.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @07:11PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @07:11PM (#829458)

    don't forget Oklahoma City, bitch.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @12:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @12:58AM (#829555)

      don't forget Oklahoma City, bitch.

      Umm...what's your point?

      Is Oklahoma now a "free state" outside the purview of the Federal government?

      Where are Timothy McVeigh [wikipedia.org] and Terry Nichols [wikipedia.org]?

      And what about the civil war they were trying to inspire?

      All you got was a couple hate-filled pieces of shit murdering innocent people. That's your ideal? I think you should follow in your footsteps and then spend the rest of your life in an 8x8 box. Have fun!