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Gab, free speech social network, has been shut down by its host
Twitter ^ | 27 May 2018 | Gab

Posted on 10/27/2018 8:11:22 PM PDT by DesScorp

Breaking: @joyent, Gab’s new hosting provider, has just pulled our hosting service. They have given us until 9am on Monday to find a solution. Gab will likely be down for weeks because of this. Working on solutions. We will never give up on defending free speech for all people.

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This burns me to no end. I was an enthusiastic Gab user. This is about nothing more than shutting down any voices that threaten the CultMarx narrative. You have to bake that cake, but apparently, if you're a tech company, you reserve the right to refuse service to whoever you choose. It's the utter, stinking hypocrisy of this that burns me the most.

I hope whoever is hosting FR is more resistant to this kind of pressure.

1 posted on 10/27/2018 8:11:22 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: DesScorp

Good gosh.

This is beyond outrageous.


2 posted on 10/27/2018 8:13:17 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: DesScorp

The site is effectively down at this time, 2311 EST.


3 posted on 10/27/2018 8:13:32 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: DesScorp

GAB needs it’s own server and T1 line.


4 posted on 10/27/2018 8:14:21 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: DesScorp

as if nobody on twitter or fb has ever committed a murder? you ban THEIR accounts not shut down the entire site.

the more you kill freedom of speech the more violence you get.

totalitarians


5 posted on 10/27/2018 8:14:28 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: DesScorp

IMHO if they can’t host themselves they are not really viable...


6 posted on 10/27/2018 8:15:32 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LIBERALS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
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To: snarkytart

as if nobody on twitter or fb has ever committed a murder? you ban THEIR accounts not shut down the entire site.

^^ THAT ^^


7 posted on 10/27/2018 8:16:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: DesScorp

Right before the election.


8 posted on 10/27/2018 8:16:07 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: DesScorp

Those who control all of this come from the deepest depths of Hell. Those they ban from places like Facebook or twitter have been going to GAB. This is how they ban those same people again. This same tactic is going to be used against sites like Free Republic. It is only a matter of time.


9 posted on 10/27/2018 8:16:10 PM PDT by Revel
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Already down and gone. They welcomed pornography, etc., not surprised they are gone. Not memorable, not of value.


10 posted on 10/27/2018 8:16:24 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: akalinin
GAB needs it’s own server and T1 line.

Still need a host though.

This is total BS and likely illegal...I think Gab has a lawsuit here.

11 posted on 10/27/2018 8:16:38 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Is it feasable to host yourself?


12 posted on 10/27/2018 8:17:45 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Reno89519

They had a porn section that you were not compelled to look at. Soooo...don’t look at it.


13 posted on 10/27/2018 8:19:29 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: DesScorp
I've always thought that the FR servers were owned by the Robinsons. If this is so and as long as contributions can be made by paper check, FR should be OK—or at least immune from the specific attacks that took Gab down.
14 posted on 10/27/2018 8:19:58 PM PDT by snarkpup
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To: Reno89519

They were about free speech. You need to understand the concept of “I don’t agree with what you are saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”


15 posted on 10/27/2018 8:20:52 PM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: DesScorp; Jim Robinson
"I hope whoever is hosting FR is more resistant to this kind of pressure."

As someone who once argued w/Jim about considering not hosting FR themselves, and him arguing back that he didn't want to be controlled, I will have to give that one to Jim :-)

16 posted on 10/27/2018 8:21:17 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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I predicted this.

First is was the social media websites. Next is was the hosting providers? What will they pull next?

There is only one game in town. Big Government with their high tech cronies.

Gab and others who wish to compete don't have a chance.

17 posted on 10/27/2018 8:22:19 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: DesScorp

gab needs to implement Zeronet and build its own network of crypto-servers. It’s the only solution to end this rampant Marxist language control. MSNBC allows a guest on live TV to encourage someone “to put a bullet” in the President, and nobody says boo. Gab gets booted because of one antisemitic ignoramus (and IMO a likely Liberal plant for a false flag).

It burns me too. I want to burn the whole mother**cking tech sector to the ground. Time for a new era of Luddites.


18 posted on 10/27/2018 8:23:11 PM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
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Who is Gab’s host?

That can happen here at FR?


19 posted on 10/27/2018 8:25:30 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists fascists today plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives soon)
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To: akalinin

... and its own distributed hosting platform and its own payment processor and... and... basically needs to build a parallel internet infrastructure outside of the left-wing controlled Big Tech corps.

This is actual non-hyperbolic original-defintion Fascism.


20 posted on 10/27/2018 8:25:55 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
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