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Gab's censorship of adult content is considerably stricter than obscenity law. They're not a free speech network, they're just a network where racism is permit
by Mindwipe 6y ago
Gab's censorship of adult content is considerably stricter than obscenity law.
They're not a free speech network, they're just a network where racism is permitted speech and anything they don't like is banned.
- dublin 6y agoThe main reason they banned "adult content" was simply that porn posters will fill any available online free forum. Reasonably enough, as a forum aimed at free speech, Gab wasn't eager to pay the hideous storage and networking costs of becoming another site like Tumblr, where that content had simply taken over...
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Reasonably enough, as a forum aimed at free speech, Gab wasn't eager to pay the hideous storage and networking costs ...of allowing certain speech. Because that's, obviously, what “free speech” means.
- fulafel 6y agoNot if handled in the current social media "standard" way: Twitter, Reddit (and ex-Tumblr) keep nsfw content from sight of non-nsfw interested users by special handling - semi-hiding the category, won't show up on searches etc but can be linked to if you have nfsw opt-in.