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The treatment of Gab is terrifying. It became an easy crux for everyone to publicly hang their disapproval on for easy moral points, and created a chain-reactio
by wild_preference 8y ago
The treatment of Gab is terrifying. It became an easy crux for everyone to publicly hang their disapproval on for easy moral points, and created a chain-reaction where nobody wanted to be the one left holding the bag.
- phoobahr 8y agoThat’s the thing though - you can be restricted by the constraints due a common carrier or you can take your lumps when you offer a haven for speech that, while free, does not come at zero cost.
- happytoexplain 8y agoI find the popularity of the hatred and calls to violence based on which political party or religion you affiliate with hosted on Gab much more terrifying than the possibility that some people are falling on the "wrong" side of the question as to whether such content justifies removal from a platform that is privately managed but widely used in a public fashion. I think both problems are important and complex, but I also think the former overshadows the latter dramatically, and that informs my opinion when the two issues collide.