Andrew Torba / Gab (Gab.com / Gab.ai) / Dissenter (dissenter.com) - An incompetent captain sinking millions of other people's dollars.

[Super-Chevy454]

Sargon had elevated Gab to the rank of martyr like Alex Jones and now we got another Streisand effect.

 

[a.cunt]

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Have any outlets taken the bait already?

'I have found alternative providers to keep the site up, but I've taken it down anyway so that mainstream media will write hit pieces on me'
Very bright people use GoDaddy as their registrar, so it is very easy to predict their actions.

 

[Alfons Schmitler]

Gab bans loli.
Lolicon shoots jews.
Jews ban gab.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

Because it's called Mastodon.

I was thinking more like something so pared down even newsgroups would look fancy by comparison, but I guess Mastadon works and fails the same way.

 

[byuu]

I was thinking more like something so pared down even newsgroups would look fancy by comparison

HTTP+RSS is very fancy compared to NNTP.

 

[TaInTeDtAcO]

HTTP+RSS is very fancy compared to NNTP.

If I had my way everyone would still be using newsgroups. I'm nostalgic for an internet where not every retard with an Android Trac-phone could share their thoughts and dreams.

 

[Graffiti canvas]

Picked up by UK news

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...synagogue-a8606551.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Cleaned up and ad free article below.

Gab.com, a website that carried violently anti-Semitic messages just before the Pittsburgh shooting, has been taken offline.

The company has been banned by its hosting provider, GoDaddy, meaning that it no longer works. In its place is a holding message claiming the site is "under attack".


"As we transition to a new hosting provider Gab will be inaccessible for a period of time," the message reads. "We are working around the clock to get Gab.com back online. Thank you and remember to speak freely."

It was just the latest in a series of companies to drop the website, which has been linked to the far-right. Payment companies such as PayPal and Stripe also took the decision to stop offering services to Gab.

The official Gab account continues to be active on Twitter. There, it has spent hours attacking the decision to take the site down, and attempting to push a conspiracy theory that there is a conspiracy by "Big Tech" to remove it from the internet.

It also re-posted the message that it had displayed on its website, where it said the network was "under attack".

The outage came after GoDaddy said that it had told Gab.com it had "24 hours to move the domain to another registrar", according to a spokesperson. The ban came because the site had violated its terms of service and hosted content that "promotes and encourages violence against people", it said.

Gab has been active for some time and has been repeatedly criticised for allowing violent and far-right content on its platform. But the latest outage comes after it was thrust in the mainstream when it was found to have been used by the suspect in the Pittsburgh shooting, where 11 people died in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.

Founded in 2016 by conservative Andrew Torba, Gab bills itself as the "free speech" alternative to Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc and has become a popular place to post content unwelcome or prohibited on other platforms.

Notable users include right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, as well as media personalities Alex Jones and Carl Benjamin.

Utsav Sanduja, Gab's former chief operating officer, said the company and its mission will survive "guilt by association" and could do more fundraising through cryptocurrencies in order to bypass tech companies.


"We created Gab for the purpose of letting off steam not to kill. That was not our intention," he said.

In earlier statements, the website said it was cooperating with law enforcement authorities and described the moves by PayPal and others as acts of "direct collusion between big tech giants." It also called on U.S. President Donald Trump to act.

On Sunday, Gab's forum lit up with comments about the Pittsburgh attack.

One user celebrated Gab being banned by PayPal while another user responded, "You are going to get shot at ur local synagogue." Another posted, "I WAS RIGHT, THEY FAKED THE SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING."

 

[AmericanClassic]

Gab was never going to work.

You could make a great social media platform with the best possible UI and servers and nobody would switch to it.
Twitter is basically the internet equivalent of ass cancer but everyone still uses it because people stick with what's familiar. That's just what people do.

 

[a.cunt]

On the front page of the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46017529

 

[Jaimas]

It's worth noting that Twitter isn't even used by the majority of internet users, for all the hubbub about it being such a critical platform.

 

[asshole]

Of course gab goes down after I get 3 fake followers!

 

[CIA Nigger]

This. If a political issue is such a big deal to a person, there are proper channels. He can voice his opinion with his vote, join a political party, go to meetings and activities IRL, start an insurrection if he thinks democracy is gay, etc...

I don't know how gab dying, or not using twitter will prevent people from IRL action of any kind.

I agree with this. Problem is on the far right there are a lot of "siegefags" who worship the book of the same name. They believe that voting is a lost cause and whatnot and that the whole system must be purged, kind of like what a lot of internet commies think.

also is it just me or are right-wingers the only ones who screech a lot about free speech like as if it was their long lost lord and savior?

That's only because the left wing gets off with a slap on the wrist on social media. It's only when Twitter bans troons for spamming KILL TERFS that the far-left types start to realize why free speech should be their friend too.

Gab was never going to work.

You could make a great social media platform with the best possible UI and servers and nobody would switch to it.
Twitter is basically the internet equivalent of ass cancer but everyone still uses it because people stick with what's familiar. That's just what people do.

This, YouTube had a lot of alternatives back in the day which had better features and video quality. They died out because nobody used them.

 

[UY 690]

Gab bans loli.
Lolicon shoots jews.
Jews ban gab.
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I can side with the jews on this one. At least they never ban lolicon art on Twitter.

 

[Slap47]

Glad I'm not the only one who finds this situation hilarious.

How the fuck is drawings a form of speech, ya fuckin' sped? If anything it'd fall under "free expression".
I guess we can add "free speech" to the list of overused, misinterpreted, redefined buzzwords like "racism" and "Nazi".

As if free expression is not of equal importance.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

They're trying to get anime censored and banned.

Who?

No seriously, who is trying to ban anime?

 

[Obama is a reptile]

I can side with the jews on this one. At least they never ban lolicon art on Twitter.

Loli fappers get the bullet.

 

[VooDew]

Gab is the equivalent of a community splitting up and one side making their own community thats "totally better", but eventually dies off because everyone in the community was only united to get back at the old community., or even more common, for their own personal ego trip.

 

[The Reaper]

I agree with this. Problem is on the far right there are a lot of "siegefags" who worship the book of the same name. They believe that voting is a lost cause and whatnot and that the whole system must be purged, kind of like what a lot of internet commies think.

The Siegefags have always perplexed me. I got a hold of it and intend to read through it for knowledge's sake. I can understand seeing the system as flawed and irredeemable but rather than attempt to destroy the system why not just operate outside of it. They could just purchase up some land in the middle of nowhere and create their own communities where they can regulate who enters and who doesn't.

 

[AltisticRight]

Pulling a Sargon with the tweeting thing I see.

He still has more chances than fucking gaymergayte being tweeted though.

 

[The Reaper]

Pulling a Sargon with the tweeting thing I see.

He still has more chances than fucking gaymergayte being tweeted though.

Sargon's attempt at GamerGate 2.0 is sad. The only way it would be acceptable would be if Trump tweeted out "I wouldn't even rape you" to some journo or politician. Why do these people think they have social/ political pull when they really don't?