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How Big Far Right Social Network Gab Has Gotten
- aphextim 7y ago>Gab immediately became a hub of alt-right activity online, but Torba took pains to say Gab was not a far-right or alt-right social network but was a “free speech social network.” >“Any online community that is explicitly pro-free speech will inevitably become right-leaning,” he [Torba] told VICE News in an interview. “This is because in the free market of ideas right-leaning ideas win. Which is why we see these left-wing tech companies censoring. No one is buying their progressive, globalist bullshit anymore, so it must be force-fed down the throats of users and dissent must be stamped out with the iron fist of censorship.”
- bmarquez 7y agoAnother thing is that anyone banned from other social networks (regardless if the reason is justified or not) will eventually end up on a free speech social network.
- AftHurrahWinch 7y agoI just wish there was a social network where I could meet people from around the world, hear about their lives, and somehow not have anyone hope I get raped and tortured to death. I value the Enlightenment principal of free speech even above that granted by the US Constitution, but it's disheartening to see people I don't know say that every night they pray for someone to throw acid in my face. I've tried Gab and, in that metric, it is worse than Twitter. And Twitter is awful.
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- solarkraft 7y ago> When Gab arrived in July however, it upset the Mastodon universe, and pretty quickly the hate-filled Gab network was blocked by the other networks with one Mastodon fan calling for a permanent ban of the far-right network. I don't know what a "permanent ban" would be, but I know no respectable instance on the Fediverse that federates with Gab. Most clients for it don't allow you to log on to Gab using them.