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As has been noted, much of the world has declared war on right, Republican, or conservative viewpoints. We've followed GAB's evolution off and on, here on SN. It would appear that, having overcome multiple obstacles in the past, GAB is under attack from a new angle.
This is the email from GAB:
At 8:38pm on Wednesday December 9th Gab received an email from Walden Macht & Haran LLP notifying us of a Gab account, @EnemiesOfThePeople, that was in breach of our Terms of Service.
The Gab account was created just a few days ago and featured the personal addresses, photos, and more of election and government officials, which is against our terms of service. The account also made direct threats of violence towards these individuals, which is against the law as well as our terms of service.
This type of content has no place on Gab and we have a longstanding history of zero tolerance for illegal behavior. At Gab we believe that free speech and open discussion are the best ways to solve problems and disagreements, not violence.
Within minutes of receiving the email alerting us to the existence of this account we took immediate action by backing up the account information for law enforcement and then terminating the account from our service.
We took it one step further by alerting the Gab community to this behavior and noted that our community members should report this type of illegal activity to our moderation team immediately if they come across it.
At 9:34pm, less than an hour after being alerted to the existence of this account, our attorney replied to Walden Macht & Haran LLP to let them know that we took immediate action to terminate the account.
At 3:49pm Thursday afternoon Reuters published an article covering this story and neglected to reach out to Gab for comment before publication. In the story Reuters falsely claimed that the account remained active on Gab even though it had been suspended within minutes of it being brought to our attention the night before.
We have since sent the following retraction request to the editor of Reuters as well as the three “journalists” on the story. We believe it’s important to transparently lay out the order of events here to highlight how “journalists” recklessly print whatever they want without fact checking or asking the subject of a story for comment on the matter at hand.
Click here to read our full email exchange with Reuters.
Please also share it so other people can learn how the legacy media vipers operate.
Reuter's article on the "enemies of the people" "enemies of the nation" and associated accounts.
https://news.gab.com/2020/12/10/gabs-statement-on-the-website-targeting-u-s-election-officials/
That link reiterates most of the contents of the email I received, along with a chain of emails with Reuters.
https://gab.com/a/posts/105353449973018161
An appeal from Torba for GAB members to be on the lookout for other accounts that violate the law, and violate TOS.
https://gab.com/enemiesofthenation
It appears that the account "enemiesofthenation" still exists on the servers, but the content is obscured. I have little idea what that means for legal purposes.
Having missed the opportunity to view the content published by "enemies of the people", I can't make a judgement on how bad it is. Obviously, it was bad enough that Torba felt he was obligated to take it down.
Waiting to see who, besides Reuters, goes on the attack over this incident.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2020, @06:06AM
We've seen a lot of that.
Fashionable stuff? Red carpet. See: the (discredited, by actual historians) 1619 project, and its ... let's call it "friendly" reception in the mainstream media. Also see: critical race theory, all founded on a basic assumption that if you change the definitions of a bunch of words around, you can be angry with a racially defined group without it being racist (by your definition). Also see: the newly discovered coolness of all things Marx, despite being discredited in theory and practice for decades, internationally. "But this time it'll be done right, because the others were all just abusing Marx without following him, but we'll really mean it!" Also see: the treatment of rioters/vandals/arsonists/"peaceful protesters".
Saying the wrong things, even if only as part of a civil public debate? Pilloried. See: Abigail Shrier’s "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters", and the UCB professor advocating stealing it and burning it. Also see: Brett Weinstein, an actual lefty professor who wasn't lefty enough, and was hounded out (so much so that he and his wife, also a professor, got a fat payout because of the abuse). See also: Chris Rock (hardly a poster boy for white nationalism) saying: "I stopped playing colleges, and the reason is because they’re way too conservative…. Not in their political views — not like they’re voting Republican — but in their social views and their willingness not to offend anybody." (Interview with Frank Rich)
Of course, I'll be tasting that hellfire and brimstone for pointing out verifiable events (and just a tiny proportion) but I suppose at least I'll have excellent, venerable company in the sulphurous pits.