Things are really coming to a head here. We have a bunch of alt-right jerkoffs hysterically jumping up and down shouting "butbutbutbut MUH FREEZE PEACH!!!111one" over Gab getting its blood supply cut off like the cancer it is.
Listen, you Constitutionally-ignorant know nothings, you fucking fourth-grade civics class failures, you frothing wild-eyed lunatics: the First Amendment merely says the government may not restrict your speech in and of itself (and there are still exception clauses for public safety).
It does not mean you have a right to be heard.
It does *not* mean you have a right to a platform.
It does NOT mean you have a right to incite violence.
And MOST OF ALL, it does NOT mean you have a right to escape the consequences of your speech.
Now, I personally am all for shitholes like gab.io, and would even support funding them. Why? Because they keep you stupid motherfuckers all in one place, contained, exposed, letting you mingle and hybridize and ooze and fester, like the old Chinese sorcery "gu." Some interestingly poisonous shit must come out of that. Free association and all that, right? And poison goes where poison's wanted.
The most hilarious part of this, though? It's when all the gibbertarian shitheads start demanding that Thuh Eebil Gubbamint stop *private corporations* from doing what the fuck they want with their resources! News flash, assholes: corporations have discovered that hosting actual, literal, Heil-Hitlering, 1488'ing Nazis is a Bad Business Decision (TM). That burning pain you feel is the Invisible Hand of the Free Market smacking you across your inbred faces so hard it raises welts. And raising a gigantic middle finger at you. You made your bed, now lie in it.
So keep screaming and howling at the corporations and the government both to do your bidding. Keep marching. Keep concentrating yourselves into ever smaller and more feverish and more frenzied little circlejerks deep in the festering asshole of the internet. Keep displaying your ignorance and stupidity and hatred and utter, utter impotent rage.
We won't necessarily punch a Nazi, but we're sure as shit gonna mock a Nazi till y'all drop dead of apoplexy. And something tells me what you really can't stand is mockery; violence you will merely take as incentive to continue on. But being laughed at? No. Never. What you fear most isn't death; it's having to live on, knowing your entire political philosophy is a laughingstock, a byword for ineffectual, self-destructive evil, your entire lives wasted on this destructive, fruitless comedy of errors.
It's coming. You've already lost. You lost the moment you started this.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday November 08 2018, @04:22PM
Personally, if people were pushed to p2p and darknets by the closing down of web2.0 crap I would only be happy. Houses built on sand are better taken down before they get to be palaces.
But, I think this was only a dick move to instill in people the notion that collective punishment, a classic method in authoritarian settings, is fine. I actually endorse collective punishment in the military, but that is in preparation or a life or death situation in which justice is irrelevant.
I don't care whether it's a conspiracy or mere pursuit of immediate interests as Azuma puts it like it were a justification, BTW note that the two things coincide, when dealing with sufficiently powerful people. Which are neither interested in liberals nor conservatives, but simply in control. So they must first break people's tendency to use their own head to determine what is wrong or right. Maybe they did move in this case, probably it's too little a fish.
Gab is returning AFAIK. Bad.
Whether somebody calls it a problem with free speech, which it isn't as far as we know, it's rather secondary.