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It's hard to really claim Gab is alt-right when the truth is really more that it's alt anything. Remember the good old days of usenet, where alt represented all
by not_a_cop75 7y ago
It's hard to really claim Gab is alt-right when the truth is really more that it's alt anything. Remember the good old days of usenet, where alt represented all the usenet "channels" that basically didn't give a damn and weren't sponsored by anyone in particular? Sure you had your flame wars, but back then no one got banned for it. The advantage of services like Twitter is that whatever agenda Twitter wants to control, they control. The ability to control the narrative is certainly a profitable one. What was the quote? When the service is free, you're the product. Think on that.
- jakelazaroff 7y agoIs it just a coincidence, then, that every time I refreshed this article, literally every single user listed under "who to follow" was alt-right, a white supremacist or a Nazi? Or that the company itself has repeatedly made anti-Semitic statements? Or that there are photographs of the founder making white supremacist hand signs?