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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: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 14 2019, @05:38AM (5 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 14 2019, @05:38AM (#829261) Journal

    Interesting. So the free speech uber alles crowd are censoring, actually censoring, you specifically, because...you hurt their fee-fees. Amazing. Bunch of fucking special snowflakes.

    If they don't like being painted with that brush, maybe they ought to examine honestly whether it's entirely undeserved and look specifically into the pain points making you wield said brush against them. After all, as Angelica Pickles once said, "if the shoe hurts, wear it!"

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday April 14 2019, @09:30AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 14 2019, @09:30AM (#829302) Journal

    Hazuki, we been over this many times! Thanks for your support, and for fighting the good fight.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @11:37AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @11:37AM (#829327)

    Interesting. So the free speech uber alles crowd are censoring, actually censoring, you specifically, because...

    Nobody is censoring him, his journal is entirely under his control. That doesn't mean editors have to approve his editorialized site submissions for the front page.

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 14 2019, @06:53PM (1 child)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 14 2019, @06:53PM (#829447) Journal

      Hey, if some dipshit AC (you?) can piss himself over "muh censorship" when I mod his trolling ass -1 Troll, Ari has a hell of a lot stronger a case for calling what's happening to him censorship.

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      • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @10:49PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @10:49PM (#829509)

        The urine soaked shorts of this dipshit are a result of laughing at clown world. Ari isn't being censored, the main page is curated and the place for his alt-right centric editorials is his journal. This has been explained to him endlessly but won't stop him playing the victim card and claiming to have been oppressed. The Dissenter browser extension is just that and Gab does have to abide by the rule of law, even has a TOS. [gizmodo.com] So why is twitter not being held to the same standard? [soylentnews.org] Honk honk!

    • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @11:28AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @11:28AM (#829758)

      Nobody is censoring him, his journal is entirely under his control.

      Oh, yes, but the PLATFORM is denied ,and poor aristarchus must have his interests in the news relegated to Snow's latest attempt to cheat on his wife, or Runaway's latest realization of something he did not know! This is the SoylentNews equivaent of Shadowbanning. Seriously!