- Joined
- Oct 28, 2018
Gab already disallowed illegal things. Let's face it, as much of a dumb asshole Torba is, there's a deliberate double standard here given that Twitter doesn't even ban Islamic terrorists and nothing happens to him. In San Fran they talk, and this was likely in the works for some time pending bad publicity like this.
Absolutely, and Andrew handed them a victory on a silver platter. It would have been one thing if Gab was a small site that wasn't trying to gain national attention as an alternative to a major platform, but they were trying to garner as much publicity as possible. If you want to do that you have to put at least some restrictions on the behavior of your users.
It didn't help at all that he's been all over the internet acting like the left's stereotype of an un-hinged right winger.