Posted on 10/28/2018 8:59:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
[ In before “Muh private corporation.” ]
In before “Start yur own muh social network”
Andrew Torba @a PRO
27 minutes ago
New hosting provider secured. Working around the clock to see to it that Gab.com stays online. You can’t stop the power of The People in their fight for freedom and liberty against tyranny.
"Conservatives just need to build their own internet. That'll show 'em!"
Thanks. I was just going to post this. It’s just a matter of making it happen.
Free speech doesn’t mean you don’t get offended. In fact it means you likely will. That’s how free speech works.
Gab does have limits though so it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with them before going all Robert Bower on there.
At the moment, they're just barely running; and I'm trying to go through my "saved posts" and save the excellent memes I've been accumulating, just in case they don't recover as planned.
I’ve been on there a while now too and have yet to see one porno thing at all. Yes, there are some anti-this and anti-that stuff but that’s the nature of free speech rights. You can choose to mute those you find too disgusting to read. It’s all on YOU.
Right. First we're told that if we want to post our opinions that don't conform to our liberal overlords, we should just start our own services. Now that someone has done that, they have their network access cut off. Guess if you aren't a NPC you have to start your own ISP.
Soon they will be telling us we have to build our own fiber routes, and can't use the same right-of-way used by all other internet providers. But, it will all be hunky-dory with many, because after all, it's not the government doing the dirty work. It's just the brown shirts.
Yet there will be plenty of people here who will passionately defend the Big Tech monopolies as being “just private companies” and who will claim that anybody else can just start up their own company to compete.....even though we are seeing as in the example of Gab, the barriers to entry to compete against these monopolies are quite high.
This willful self defeating blindness on the part of some in a misguided defense of supposedly “free” markets which are anything but is truly remarkable.
Big Tech needs to suffer the consequences of running monopolies and engaging in censorship - that is heavy federal regulation to prevent censorship or breaking them up via antitrust actions from the DOJ.
you didn't make it. See post #8
[ In before “Start yur own muh social network”
“Conservatives just need to build their own internet. That’ll show ‘em!” ]
This is basically “tree house syndrome” the boys will build a tree-house, the girls will whine and complain that the boys are not being “fair” and they want to be allowed into the tree-house they didn’t build. Once they get access to it the girls will be happy for a while and the boys will leave, meanwhile the tree-house will slowly fall apart and as the who didn’t build it will not maintain it. The boys will be told to be build their “own” tree house.... Eventually the boys will build another tree-house and guess what happens? the girls will start whining about it “not being fair”....
Even if Conservatives build their own internet, at some point it will be usurped by the liberals who will demand inclusion then they will wreck it and the conservatives will be told yet again to “build their own internet” if they don’t like it....
At the moment, they're just barely running; and I'm trying to go through my "saved posts" and save the excellent memes I've been accumulating, just in case they don't recover as planned.
I believe it took a little longer than just a couple of hours but it didn't days that's for sure. It's hard to change servers while still trying to keep the site up and running. We all just need to be a little patient as Andrew is working hard to make the change over and he will let us all know as soon as Gab is operational again. Right now it is running sluggish. But all your material should still be available to you once the change over is complete.
Well I've been on Gab for about a year now and yes I have seen some of the vulgar tranny porn images but I immediately notify Andrew and he deletes them immediately and bans the user but the user is persistent and keeps popping back up under different aliases using VPN and other masking techniques. This is designed to get Gab branded persona non gratis everywhere on the net. It really and truly is a conspiracy to harm his site and us his users. Dictators and wannabe dictators can't abide free speech.
First they came for GAB, soon it will be this place.
That one is courtesy of a complaint by Adam Flanders, apparently the Brett Kimberlin of the LGBT movement. Apparently, Flanders, a gay man, had a criminal complaint against him in 2006, I believe for sexual exploitation of a minor or some such. Therefore, he is on his own little jihad to shut down sites that expose that record.
Too late. See #8.
What they are talking about here are ISP companies. You can apparently have all the servers you want, but unless you can front the money to create your own ISP, you are at the whim of a host. This is apparently true even of FR.
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