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If Gab is a conservative platform, your next comment "politically neutral platforms or moderators" would not be able to exist right?
by travisporter 6y ago
If Gab is a conservative platform, your next comment "politically neutral platforms or moderators" would not be able to exist right?
- maallooc 6y agoThe fact that "a conservative" runs a platform doesn't mean it's "a conservative platform". Don't put words in someone's mouth.
- pm90 6y ago> Gab is an English-language social media platform known for its far-right userbase.[8] The site has been widely described as a "safe haven"[9] for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right.[10] From Wikipedia. OP isn’t putting any words in anyone’s mouth. They are referencing a well known fact about this establishment.
- maallooc 6y agoSo? The fact that the majority of the userbase is alt-right doesn't make the platform itself conservative. If tor is known for it's pedophile userbase, does it make the platform itself pedophile?
- pm90 6y agoIf the majority of it’s users fit that category then yes.
- maallooc 6y agoThen why isn't Tor getting shut down? It's a pedophile platform. I know why. Because it's not a pedophile platform and Gab is not a conservative platform.
- pm90 6y agoBecause the majority of it’s users don’t fit that category.
- maallooc 6y agohttps://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-relate-pedophilia-study-finds/ https://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-rel... 80% is not a majority? Wow, what planet are you from?
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- travisporter 6y agoI didn't mean to, but "if conservatives try to build their own platform " implies some direction to the platform. they would have said "try to build a platform". EDIT: my apologies that's what they meant
- happytoexplain 6y agoThe GP said "conservatives try to build their own platform (Gab)". The parent said "If Gab is a conservative platform". This is obviously a reasonable way to interpret the GP's sentence. You're also reasonable to disagree with that interpretation, but you're being unreasonably combative when you accuse the parent of putting words in the GP's mouth.
- maallooc 6y agoBecause arguing something with your bias to make your argument viable is a form of putting words in people's mouth.
- sergiotapia 6y agoGab is not a "conservative" platform, it's a censorship free platform. It was born out of necessity because twitter was deplatforming normal people who just happen to have different political views. You can go on Gab and post ultra-leftwing stuff, my little pony stuff, circuit board stuff, open an account to follow latest Antonio Banderas news, whatever you want.
- ceejayoz 6y ago> Gab is not a "conservative" platform, it's a censorship free platform. Gab is not censorship free. They've banned users. https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/981984571645362176 https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/981984571645362176
- maallooc 6y agoCensorship free != not banning. US law states that speech like doxxing are not free speech thus restricting it is not censorship.
- ceejayoz 6y agoThey ban porn, too: https://gab.com/about/tos https://gab.com/about/tos "Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, User Contributions must NOT: Be obscene, sexually explicit or pornographic."