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Gab 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 hap
by sergiotapia 6y ago
Gab 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."
- maallooc 6y agoBanning a specific portion of a speech is not censorship.
- ceejayoz 6y agoThat's a baffling assertion.
- maallooc 6y agoIt is. The supreme court saw that banning nudity in theaters, thus banning specific portion of speech in specific places is not infringing first amendment. You have your freedom to enjoy nude in your home but not in theaters due to city regulations. That doesn't mean that the city is censoring.
- ceejayoz 6y agoYou're confusing "the censorship is legal" with "the censorship is not censorship".
- maallooc 6y agoI don't treat control of the speech that does cross the lines of the first amendment censorship because if it's not protected by the first amendment it's a violation of the law thus it's an act of justice. Similarly we don't call stopping robbery and murder censorship of our acts.
- ceejayoz 6y agoPornography is pretty clearly not a violation of the law, so why do you consider Gab's censorship of it not to be censorship?
- loopz 6y agoThere's no inherent human right to be on Twitter, access its contents or contribute to new content. It is private property and you give away the rights to publish your speech, as per their site policies. So removing content or accounts, is not by law censorship in such an arrangement. That people freely choose to use such arrangements and contribute to others' private property, is questionable.
- maallooc 6y agoIt's a difference on how you view human rights. There are people that think not allowed access to the Internet human rights violation. I think not being allowed to post on twitter because you have an unpopular opinion is a violation of free speech. A law can be added to protect this right like the right to be forgotten. We didn't think the right to be forgotten was even a right that is valuable to protect but here we are.
- 12xo 6y agoSo they allow kiddy porn? Of course, not. So yes, they are censoring content... What a lie.
- happytoexplain 6y ago>Gab is not a "conservative" platform This has not been my personal experience when trying to contribute. Also, the founder and original users, in conversation, explicitly labeled it as a place for conservatives. Of course they are careful not to include such language in official user-facing copy.