Posted on 10/27/2018 8:11:22 PM PDT by DesScorp
You seem to know a lot about porn
The main problem isn’t at the hardware level. It’s at the service level - payment processors, hosting platforms.
This is going to drive a lot of business in the US to overseas providers outside the reach of left-wing fascists.
If you were to make a new Gab starting now, would you build it in the US? Not a chance in hell.
The porn images were easily avoidable with the #NSFW filter.
The Jew hate was off the charts today.
Cute. So insults instead of substance. I am really surprised that among everyone wanting defend foreign platform Gab, not one wants to share WHY they being shut down? Saying 1st amendment doesn’t cut it without specifics and is this why or simpley wishful thinking? Maybe they didn’t pay their bill?
"...Gab was the most promising of the populist alternatives to Big Tech..."
“The Jew hate was off the charts today-—
Good lord,where?
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I have a semi-porn business on twitter.
And a gab profile, not related.
Porn is worldwide, and normal.
If the internet gets yanked out from under Free Republic, we might have to think of old technology like having group talk sessions via telephone.
But if the tech czars go full Nazi on us, maybe we will have to end up meeting in person in local churches or American Legion halls.
I hope the outlook isn’t THAT bad. But to have no internet access would be quite a handicap nowadays.
They were de-platformed for no greater reason than that the shooter had a (not very active nor interactive) account there.
It’s as flimsy an excuse as you can imagine. Not one other social media service would be operating if these same conditions applied.
Guy who shot Scalise had a Twitter account. Murders and tortures have been livestreamed on Facebook. Child porn is common on Instagram. Etc. etc. etc.
If this is the standard no one is safe, including FR.
In fact, I’d say this is the first time in 20+ years I’ve been here where I’d say there is now a genuine reason to be concerned that FR will be politically de-platformed as well, with all that is needed for FR to disappear being an excuse.
In other words, FR could disappear tomorrow, if someone with an account here goes postal. Even if that person is a leftist and not conservative at all. Meanwhile the same does NOT apply to the litany of death threats constantly streaming from the Left.
” doesn’t say WHY”
Yeah. There must be a contract stating reasons they can be summarily shut off.
On pornography. It seeps into free speech areas. Pornographers financed much of the litigation of free speech in the US. Shame, but others don’t have the money.
You can host yourself on your own sever(S). Maybe you can host a few other free speech boards as well? Bone up on internet info.
Pornography has played a vital role in the development of information technology from the very start. Even before graphic interfaces people were trading porn made from ASCII characters on usenet.
It’s been at the leading edge of all sorts of video and networking technologies, and continues that role in the VR space today.
As much as one may not like it, it’s a major reason why the technology has developed at the speed it has. Without it we’d probably still have 1980s level computing.
So it will become all too easy to deny that Bowers was anti-Trump and anti-Q, since his Gab posts demonstrating those facts will soon be inaccessible, until well after the election.
Not really?
Where would you get your public IP address from and your domain nam?. How would you finance your "own server". What about the electricity.
All of those things can be denied to you similar to what happened to GAB today.
Not trying to flame you, but it's important that you wake up.
I have (had?) an account on Gab. I set it up, activated it, and never touched it. I built no profile and I've posted nothing.
Every so often I'll get a message, "So and so is now following you on Gab!" and I think, "Why?"
Obvious when these Lunatics go on their sprees of violent behavior they’re giving cause for the noose to get even tighter on social media and the like.
On the other hand people think they can just spew garbage across the portholes of social media, as well as the Internet entire, with no common sense at all.
I would rate the Internet pretty much an X rated trap because these clowns put their stuff everywhere.
Where did you see this posted or did you get an email.
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