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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2020, @03:50AM (15 children)
Trump ranked in the middle? Really? That might be the case if the only presidents he's compared against are Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Warren Harding. And even that's being generous. The comparison to 1861 is valid given Republicans' rejection of the rule of law and now the threat of secession [thehill.com] because SCOTUS ruled against Texas' lawsuit to overturn the election in four other states.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 12 2020, @04:25AM (14 children)
Trump did nothing great while in office, IMO. Nor did he do anything terrible, IMO. Despite all the stupid "resistance" shit that started even before he was sworn in, Trump has not been a "bad" president.
For all his cronyism, he didn't get laws passed to enrich the insurance industry at the expense of taxpayers, like Obama did.
Oh, but wait - there are STILL people who believe that Obamacare was somehow as good as single payer? What chumps!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2020, @04:42AM (3 children)
Trump hasn't done anything terrible? Really?
You might have been able to make that argument 18 months ago and get away with it. But we have nearly 300,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 while Trump undermines efforts to bring the disease under control. Trump's attempts to undermine democracy and overturn the election are also terrible. And Trump got impeached for good reason, because he abused his power and attempted to bribe Ukraine's president to smear Biden.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday December 12 2020, @04:56AM (1 child)
We have gone from a Quarter Million, to almost a Third of a million? And this is not a national emergency? I recommend we break out the tax on the rich anti-khallow emergency national policy! We allowed the 1% to accumulate wealth for just such an extingency. Time to bleed them dry, to redistibute the wealth, to do the khallow UBI, but with no stupid Republican restrictions on non-rich people (black, or brown, or mulatto) getting any of it. Eat the Rich. It is about time.
(Score: 1, Touché) by khallow on Saturday December 12 2020, @12:08PM
You false flagging, bro? This is a parody of concern about covid.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 12 2020, @05:27AM
Uh-huh. A bunch of people SAY THAT Trump undermines their efforts to get the pandemic under control. I wonder how many of those same people have helped to manipulate the numbers, to make the pandemic seem worse than it is.
Once again, CDC's official numbers say that the US total fatalities this year, from all causes, are only 11% higher than expected fatalities. It's not like total fatalities are 30, or 50, or 75% higher than total fatalities in any previous year. The total of dead Americans is running 11% higher than would be expected of all causes.
Many of us have been calling bullshit on the whole COVID-19 reporting all along. The CDC helps to get all those numbers into perspective.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday December 12 2020, @12:02PM (9 children)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 12 2020, @01:31PM (6 children)
So, Trump wrote the budget too? What DID Congress do for four years?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday December 12 2020, @10:06PM
You should be asking what did Trump do for four years?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2020, @01:21AM (4 children)
Maybe you should read the Constitution again. If the president didn't like it, he could have vetoed it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 13 2020, @04:01AM (3 children)
Oh, isn't that a lame excuse! Every congress since the first has had that same possibility hanging over their heads. Every_single_one.
Guess what? If the prez vetoes, congress can just go over his head with a supermajority. But, you knew that, right? Or, they can resubmit with a few changes. Or, they can politic. Bottom line, congress controls the purse. Always has, and probably always will until the US is no more.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday December 14 2020, @03:21AM (2 children)
Or they can turn in a budget more in line with the president's priorities. Supermajorities aren't that common.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 14 2020, @07:11AM (1 child)
I covered that with
Give and take, and if one side is being too much of an asshole they suffer in the polls.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday December 14 2020, @02:55PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2020, @07:52PM (1 child)
Yeah, he should have struck into CHOP like a hammer, and prohibited governors from interfering with interstate commerce. He was trying to be considerate because of the election, but he left millions of people in despair at the mercy of their governors. He retreated from the front line a month after the lockdowns started, and only came back when the rioting erupted.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday December 12 2020, @10:09PM
Who here believes that? Certainly not I.