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Gab isn’t being blackballed. Gab isn’t restricted from doing business. It’s just forced to do it’s business on its own because it’s not seen as a good citizen.

Gab isn’t being blackballed. Gab isn’t restricted from doing business. It’s just forced to do it’s business on its own because it’s not seen as a good citizen. “We could better regulate our site if you gave us better tools to do so” isn’t valid. If they “care about the kids”, the cost for outside help with that is clear, also deal with the far-right/extremist elements on your platform as well. Gab doesn’t want to do that, so the other players are distancing themselves. This mean that the quality of their content moderation when it comes to child pornography is their responsibility. “I’ll do what I want and you must enable me” isn’t a valid argument.

throwaway894345 6y ago
> Gab isn’t being blackballed. Gab isn’t restricted from doing business. It’s just forced to do it’s business on its own because it’s not seen as a good citizen. Right, and it's adhering to its legal responsibilities in the process, so I'm not seeing your issue. By all appearances, Gab does have the resources to operate responsibly as defined by law. Gab appears to be arguing that it could do better if various SV companies would cooperate. It sounds like you're not adding anything new, but merely re-observing the stalemate described in TFA between the entrenched players and Gab. Perhaps you're adding some moral implication that the established players are right to use child porn as a bargaining chip to get Gab to capitulate on free speech--its purported raison d'etre. If that's your position, that's a bit disturbing, but I don't know what goes on at Gab very well--I suppose hypothetically it could be worse than child porn, in which case using child porn as leverage is perhaps the right call. But again, that's a pretty disturbing, hopefully purely hypothetical scenario. > “I’ll do what I want and you must enable me” isn’t a valid argument. No one is making this argument.

throwaway894345 6y ago

> Gab isn’t being blackballed. Gab isn’t restricted from doing business. It’s just forced to do it’s business on its own because it’s not seen as a good citizen. Right, and it's adhering to its legal responsibilities in the process, so I'm not seeing your issue. By all appearances, Gab does have the resources to operate responsibly as defined by law. Gab appears to be arguing that it could do better if various SV companies would cooperate. It sounds like you're not adding anything new, but merely re-observing the stalemate described in TFA between the entrenched players and Gab. Perhaps you're adding some moral implication that the established players are right to use child porn as a bargaining chip to get Gab to capitulate on free speech--its purported raison d'etre. If that's your position, that's a bit disturbing, but I don't know what goes on at Gab very well--I suppose hypothetically it could be worse than child porn, in which case using child porn as leverage is perhaps the right call. But again, that's a pretty disturbing, hopefully purely hypothetical scenario. > “I’ll do what I want and you must enable me” isn’t a valid argument. No one is making this argument.