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>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 spee
by 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.