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

[Null]

Anyone else remember the GabCoin ICO?

 

[Banh Xeo]

I don't get whats to stop them from hosting the site on their own hardware or renting shit in some trashcan country where no one cares.

If these people are too inept to host by themselves then someone else will step up.

These are the same people who SHOULD be using Tor, but are too stupid to use Tor. Of course they're too inept to host by themselves.

Someone asked me the other day about ordering intoxicants off the “deep web,” I’m amazed at how brave idiots are getting with the internet. Fun to watch, annoying to navigate.

That dumb motherfucker thought he could go with Microsoft. How stupid do you have to be to do that?

Game set match.

*edited because I can’t scroll or proof good.*

 

[Slap47]

>Presents itself as a true free speech platform for the right movement.
>Cries for governmental aid when things go south.

Wow, talking about double standards. He IS like Israel, after all!

Torba is very sad that Trump didn't notice his efforts for free speech after all this time:
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>I'm a private entity, no loli here, it offends my sensibilities.
>Gab.ai dies
>Private entities shouldn't be allowed to crackdown on things that offend their sensibilities

 

[TaInTeDtAcO]

Anyone else remember the GabCoin ICO?

Apparently they've reserved $5,626,002.64 in gab-coin. I'm sure Torba is totally on the level with this.

 

[HighlyCursedBoy]

It can't be that hard to make a generic social media site and pay for some advertising without totally losing your grasp on normalcy and moderation

 

[Jaimas]

For fuck's sake, Torba. You had like 40 people tell you this shit was coming and you chose to ignore it.

I'm not saying that the likes of Twitter and the other big networks don't need to be broken up, mind you.

I'm just saying Torba is a fucking idiot.

 

[Route 79]

It's totally not fair. All the other social media big guys had to testify before congress. When will Andrew Torba have his turn?

 

[J A N D E K]

I don't know what it is. I don't know how one can make a "Free Speech" website without driving off the moderate.

Correct me if I’m wrong and haven’t been paying attention, but I thought that is what you have been doing here all along. Unless there is so much irony on top of irony that I have called completely lost the plot, I’ve seen a decent contingent of moderates here... myself included.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Its still alarming though. There needs to be a realization among Libertarian minded people that the issue is not Government specifically. Its Power generally. Concentration of power is a danger to liberty no matter where it chooses to concentrate. Traditionally, this has been in Government. But we are now living in a happy neo-liberal society where large corporations are gaining power that Andrew Carnegie or John Rockefeller could never have dreamed of in their wildest dreams. As more and more of our civic life moves from the public square to these curated platforms, the risk to liberty grows exponentially, because just like an authoritarian government, the common good is not a concern for these corporations. Their concern is money, and protecting their brand recognition. And just like Dear Leader will smash anyone who would make him look bad, these corporations will do the same.

 

[Scratch This Nut]

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

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Well, it was either this or smoking a fat blunt with Joe Rogan. Maybe he can get a new job as an assistant water filter salesman.

 

[TaInTeDtAcO]

It looks like he has a backup.

 

[Banh Xeo]

Correct me if I’m wrong and haven’t been paying attention, but I thought that is what you have been doing here all along. Unless there is so much irony on top of irony that I have called completely lost the plot, I’ve seen a decent contingent of moderates here... myself included.

I feel this site is where I can find a pretty fair level sampling of information, discourse, philosophy, and of course lols

Doesn’t matter anyways, I’m pretty sure this is a game of Banh: A Life. Well, lived.

 

[Zarkov]

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WON'T TORBA FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE ?

 

[Sheryl Nome]

Torba isn't very smart if he didn't see this coming

Like I even agree with him that its fucked what these companies can do and how much influence they have, but holy shit dude figure out your own hosting because you are not gonna last

 

[Slap47]

It can't be that hard to make a generic social media site and pay for some advertising without totally losing your grasp on normalcy and moderation

Drawing the line is extremely difficult. Not one government in the world has been able to figure out where to draw the line on free speech. Dunno why you expect some guy with a relatively microscopic budget to succeed.

I think Gab.ai's premise is fucked anyway. The sjws will never go to Gab and the people that love to make fun of and interact with sjws have no reason to sign up or even be active. It's doomed to be a place of barely active users that occasionally post edgy stuff.

The sjws themselves have a pull factor and to get the sjws you either need to have no competition or at least a facade of censorship.

Worse, normalfags watch advertisements, not edgy people that are interested in tech and free speech.

Its still alarming though. There needs to be a realization among Libertarian minded people that the issue is not Government specifically. Its Power generally. Concentration of power is a danger to liberty no matter where it chooses to concentrate. Traditionally, this has been in Government. But we are now living in a happy neo-liberal society where large corporations are gaining power that Andrew Carnegie or John Rockefeller could never have dreamed of in their wildest dreams. As more and more of our civic life moves from the public square to these curated platforms, the risk to liberty grows exponentially, because just like an authoritarian government, the common good is not a concern for these corporations. Their concern is money, and protecting their brand recognition. And just like Dear Leader will smash anyone who would make him look bad, these corporations will do the same.

A true free speech platform would allow everything and Torba has went down the path of cracking down on what he considers degeneracy. He has a far-right platform because of his actions and because his site attracts third rail politics, IE, Nazism. The far right has no more a right to carry the banner of free speech than the far left.

To carry a cause you at least have to be consistent in supporting it. What is the end goal of Torba? Forcing websites to allow offensive opinions and post things most people find heinous? Which websites? All websites? Having the government subsidize free speech platforms? How do we define a free speech platform and how do we regulate the platform so that discussions can happen? Is spam protected? Torba doesn't even allow absolute free speech on his platform since he cracks down on spam and things he personally finds offensive.

First it was Nazis, now its things (most) Nazis dislike.

Correct me if I’m wrong and haven’t been paying attention, but I thought that is what you have been doing here all along. Unless there is so much irony on top of irony that I have called completely lost the plot, I’ve seen a decent contingent of moderates here... myself included.

This site isn't even pretending to be a free speech platform. Its a site to make fun of retarded people.

It's made pretty clear that you can be banned at a whim.

 

[Secret Asshole]

This guy was such a dumb faggot. I really can't believe it. Going mainstream with hosting, banning shit that offends him and saying he's free speech...fucking idiot. Let it die.

GOVERNMENT BAD, NO REGULATION

-gets bullied by corporations-

GOVERNMENT HELP

GOVERNMENT PLEASE RESPOND

 

[queerape]

Reminder to all Kiwis that if you posted cowtent from Gab to archive it, as it will likely by gone by MONDAY as that’s when Joyent’s Hosting service ends!

 

[Route 79]

https://twitter.com/deplatformhate/status/1056360436529012737

DeplatformHate has been working for months trying to make Gab go away. Wherever free speech lurks on the internet, you can depend on "journalists" to come to the rescue. They will spend days bitching to strype and paypal until they get their way.

 

[misterduckford]

It's almost as if lifelong businessmen never reward unsolicited free services.

We should get Russell Greer on the case.