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FTA: > On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator
by FullMtlAlcoholc 10y ago
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> On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator “I am actually surprised it took them this long to excommunicate me,” Torba told BuzzFeed News. “Y Combinator doesn’t accept conservatives and they don’t accept Trump supporters.”
> In the Facebook thread, before he was booted from Y Combinator, Torba wrote:
“All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it.
I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks.”
I'm bewildered. I want to think that they are just trolls looking for attention. My pessimistic side says that they actually do have a persecution complex and somehow feel that the groups they regularly malign have more rights and privilege than they do.
One thing I've noticed regarding the above excerpt is a unique interpretation of free speech where they believe they are free to say anything they want without consequence. Any negative response is met with claims of censorship. If you acted that way in a coffeeshop, bar, or some community gathering you would be asked to leave as well. If you continue hurling verbal assaults after being asked to leave, that's harassment. You have the right to be a dick, but they're claiming they are exercising their right to free speech and are surprised people are being dicks back to them. I hope society never succumbs to their desires and normalizes denigrating speech and just being a complete asshole. I really hope they are trolls
EDIT: > “if you feel ‘unsafe’ from from [sic] me saying ‘fuck off’ or ‘build a wall,’ you probably shouldn’t be on the internet.”
Sigh, I had such high hopes for the Internet being the ultimate tool to elevate mankind to a more enlightened tomorrow and the promise that technology would make the world a better place. Seems it has enabled a safe space for people to unleash their inner asshole. I'm afraid of what's going to happen if they ever summon up enough courage to do these things in person and are inevitably met with violence.
I'm not a tough guy at all, but in my hometown, dem is called fightin words
- ManFromUranus 10y agoHis reaction didn't just fall out of the sky, one does not interact with somebody in good faith and then get a reaction like that immediately. That is the response of somebody who's sick and tired of liberals. > I hope society never succumbs to their desires and normalizes denigrating speech This is already happened, you can denigrate conservatives or anybody to the right of you easily, look at all the histrionics surrounding Trump. People are saying he's hitler UNIRONICALLY. We've blown by your line in the sand a long time ago.
- pyre 10y ago> People are saying he's hitler UNIRONICALLY Like the Tea Party people from a few years ago claiming that Obama was Hitler "unironically" and that Obamacare was a "Nazi program"? {edit} I'm curious why you didn't see things like this: http://www.wataugawatch.net/uploaded_images/Tea-party-2-712911.jpg http://www.wataugawatch.net/uploaded_images/Tea-party-2-7129... as "going way past the line?"
- omonra 10y agoCitation please.
- pyre 10y agoThis comes up on the first page of a Google search... It's almost like you didn't search for anything yourself... http://americablog.com/2013/02/tea-party-obama-is-hitler.html http://americablog.com/2013/02/tea-party-obama-is-hitler.htm... or there is this: https://kristiann1.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/hitler-t-4-obamacare-nazi-socialist-barack-hussein-obama-1.jpg?w=777&h=501 https://kristiann1.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/hitler-t-4-ob...
- omonra 10y agoRight - but I don't think anybody took that seriously. Even the tea partiers saying it most likely only meant it as a 'Obama is a very bad guy and the worst name we can call him is Hitler'. On the other hand the many liberal journalists prognosticating Trump to become a totalitarian like Hitler really meant it (for example see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/28/this-new-york-times-review-of-a-hitler-book-sure-looked-like-a-thinly-veiled-trump-hitler-comparison/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/28/th...)
- gremlinsinc 10y agoFunny that the same people who want to be able to say anything under free speech regardless of who it hurts, or how hateful, are the same ones who would take away citizenship from protesters who would burn the flag as a form of speech.
- vixen99 10y agoNeed to look at a specific example but rights always, without exception, come with obligations. They are not a net bonus.
- gremlinsinc 10y agoYou can't say 'let us have free speech' - by using hate speech --then say 'take away their free speech' i.e. flag burning or w/e it's a double standard.