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He's already got lots of kind things to say about Guatemalans but I'd be surprised if jail'd make him any more interesting.
Andrew Torba / Gab (Gab.com / Gab.ai) / Dissenter (dissenter.com) - An incompetent captain sinking millions of other people's dollars.
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I haven't been on Gab in forever. I thought one of the big selling points of Gab was that you could filter out people you didn't like (presumably by blocking them yourself, a la Disqus), as opposed to having a Truthiness Division rooting out wrongthink?
Good grief, Torba, do you have trouble remembering not to shit your pants too?
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There is a horrible precedent set by this though. Gab was set to impossibly high standards (not having potential school shooters on it) which Twitter, Facebook, and all other big tech companies didn't have to conform to. And every SJW and mainstream media outlet was just itching to get it shut down.
The destruction of Gab nullifies the "just make your own tech company" or "just go somewhere else" argument, as these people will not stop targeting you if you go or do something else. They will not stop until all public discourse is controlled by them.
The destruction of Gab nullifies the "just make your own tech company" or "just go somewhere else" argument, as these people will not stop targeting you if you go or do something else. They will not stop until all public discourse is controlled by them.
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No, I think Gab made some critical errors that did them in.
Gab would still be operating today if they kept their spaghetti in their pockets about who they're hosting with.
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Gab's biggest problem was that it was total normie repelant. Their most popular posts section was always full of racist bullshit that you couldn't even filter.
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While true, that has nothing to do with what actually happened.
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Not even close. I completely agree that Torba shit his pants on managing Gab, but Gab should not have been held responsible for the ravings of a lunatic, any more than Usenet would've been responsible if the crazy fuck had posted there.
But because Gab was weak, and marginal (because of Torba's incompetence) they were an easy target. Boom.
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It's possible for Gab to simultaneously be the victim of an unfair deplatforming campaign AND be one of if not the most poorly designed twitter alternatives which exuded exceptionalism from every pore making the success of said deplatforming almost a formality in the current environment.
It does set a terrible precedent, even if it's impossible to feel any sympathy for its management or its users, because the actual justification for doing so was fucking flimsy when compared to the standards other social media platforms are held to with regards to nutters that kill people having accounts with spicy postings which are otherwise not in violation of the law. All his Gab posts that were "up for months" are drivel, but I didn't see any of his posts that seemed to violate any laws, hell even his final message doesn't strike me as being a credible threat because it simply isn't specific enough, but obviously anyone with experience on how specific a threat needs to be correct me if I'm erring there in that interpretation.
It does set a terrible precedent, even if it's impossible to feel any sympathy for its management or its users, because the actual justification for doing so was fucking flimsy when compared to the standards other social media platforms are held to with regards to nutters that kill people having accounts with spicy postings which are otherwise not in violation of the law. All his Gab posts that were "up for months" are drivel, but I didn't see any of his posts that seemed to violate any laws, hell even his final message doesn't strike me as being a credible threat because it simply isn't specific enough, but obviously anyone with experience on how specific a threat needs to be correct me if I'm erring there in that interpretation.
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Weev seems to be the expert running unpopular websites and he just said that getting services is a pain but the real problem is that these sites don't produce communities or interesting content. In this case gab failed for hosting reasons but those problems were unsurmountable because of gab being ran by noobs and not because of the FAANG Illuminati
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Lolcow Styx posted a new vlog about Gab and Twitter.
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The classic "turn on the grill of your parents barbeque" terrorist attack.
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As much as I'd be inclined to agree, Gab's hosting a mass shooter was the last of around a thousand problems the site had:
- As was discussed multiple times earlier in this thread, Torba was warned - repeatedly - about hosting and how that would be an immediate route taken to shut Gab down the second Torba's opponents had the chance. Null fucking warned him about this specifically, as did over a dozen other people who know their shit.
Torba fucking hosted the site on conventional site hosts and fucking GoDaddy anyway.
- Torba was also repeatedly warned that Paypal, Patreon, and Stripe were all extremely vulnerable to interdiction by the usual suspects.
Rather than work out workarounds or use any alternative, Torba did fuck all. - Torba was warned that the security of his site was fucking awful, and that his userdata was hilariously vulnerable.
Torba denied everything, banned anyone who brought it up, and then tried to quietly patch out issues. Badly. - Torba bitched about data collection by the likes of every other Social Media platform.
He then did even worse, with the mobile version of Gab flat-out demanding access to your other apps and correspondingly your private messages from other fucking applications.
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I've seen ISIS videos of this technique. BBQ devastation of WHOLE suburbs.
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The classic "turn on the grill of your parents barbeque" terrorist attack.
More likely it was just revenge because they gave out Smarties or some shitty candy like that to Halloweeners.
It's too bad it didn't fail on its own from crippling autism, retardation, and utter failure as a business, because now, due to this dude's stupidity, people will learn the wrong lessons for the wrong reasons.
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fftopic:fftopic:Those are some of my favorites. They consider everything Western to be evil, yet have no problem using swishpans and advanced filming techniques for their barbarity.
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I hope he gets egged tonight.
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Live and don't learn, that's Social Media for ya.
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Just good church people, folks.
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The ignoring of @Null and countless others by Andrew Torba may just be a 26-dimensional backgammon game by Torba to wait for Gab to get shut down, Streisand Effecting it more attention, only to get it back up with shit he actually already has planned, but didn't tell anyone about.
Because no way did this "Gab comeback" come to pass so quickly. No way did Torba find enough people to help him on such short notice.
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This whole thing is so weird. Everything that Torba does just seems off to me, not incompetent off(which he is), but like there's way more to this story than what we're seeing. There are parts of his website that are still functioning.