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That doesn't explain events like Apple, Google, Visa, and Mastercard all banning Gab. Reportedly, Visa and Mastercard even refuse to do business with Gab's foun

• zozbot234 6y ago
  Gab literally went out of their way to market their service and platform towards the most disreputable. I'm not saying that what happened to them was acceptable, but there's a reason why it's hard to make people care about this stuff. And if nobody cares, it doesn't take much of a "movement" for activists to get their way.
  • leereeves 6y ago
    That's far from the only example of conservatives banned by Visa and Mastercard, and there are plenty of people who care, they've just been disenfranchised. That you think nobody cares indicates the extent to which they already control the flow of information.
  • _0ffh 6y ago
    >Gab literally went out of their way to market their service and platform towards the most disreputable That may have been incidental. It makes financial sense to market to those whom you expect to be most inclined to employ your services. In this case those who feel that they cannot freely express themselves on the competing products. That group is necessarily centered on those who's honest expressions receive the most attention from deplatforming activists.