“I may not agree with what you say, but will fight to preserve the right for you to say it. . .”
And that’s the nice thing about Gab. . . if I don’t want to hear or see them. . . .I “mute” them, and never see them again. They can speak all they want. Doesn’t mean anyone has to listen to them. . .
Here's a very interesting discussion about Gab and NeoNazis I thought you might find informative.
Zoss Arwr
23 hours ago - Translate
Gab.com is a raging dumpster fire.
In the past, I have advocated that for people that want to leave facebook, twitter, etcetc for more fertile grounds then Orwellian controlled leftist tech media sites should check out Gab.com.
I am fervently against that platform as of now.
Instead of being a place that champions free speech, it is a place that harbours neo nazi scum and defends their threats, incitements to violence, and allows them to radicalize others.
Over the past few months on Gab preceding the evil events of yesterday, I had been subjected to an increasing amount of harassment and attempts to intimidate me(lol) there.
The neo nazis on Gab had been allowed to openly make threats without any repercussion from Gab itself, even when such were reported to the administrators there, the perpetrators of the threats were never removed from the site, meanwhile, Gab found it appropriate to censor -yes censor- me for challenging the nazis' way of thinking there.
They did this by marking two of my accounts "NSFW", literally blanking out my posts to the public eye, meanwhile, they never even took this action against those making actual threats. And yes, I have multiple screen shots of the threats made.
Today, as Gab is in turmoil from being dumped by paypal and is having to find a new host for its trash bin collection of alt-right retards and neo nazi fuckwits, I logged in for the last time to see that one of the groups there, calling itself "gabstapo", had 11 tally marks on its group header, literally celebrating the mass murder of the 11 innocent people killed in a house of worship yesterday.
And still, Gab does nothing.
This is because Gab.com was made for the nazis, by a nazi.
Rasko Solsky
17 hours ago
This is exactly what tore it for me with Gab. Because I was very aggressive for muting anyone racist, anti-Semetic or vaguely Nazi and because I confined myself to a small corner of Gab that reflected my narrow interests in social media, I never saw or paid much attention to many of the posters there.
Then one of "those idiots" shot a bunch of innocents at a bris and I took another look around. Ten minutes later I was gone. There are some truly decent people over there, but they need to get the hell out.
Zoss Arwr
17 hours ago
I acted as an admin to a couple groups there and was unable to use the mute function because if I did, I could not see bad actors that needed to be removed from the group. So, I saw it all. I have multiple screen shots of direct threats and other incitements to violent action saved in a folder on my computer. Each and every one of those threats were duly reported to gab itself, but gab never took any action at all, unless, of course, the activity got the attention of gabs hosts or other providers, and they threatened to pull the rug out from under gab. Allowing the neo nazis there to foment violence unchecked DIRECTLY led to the mass shooting that occurred, IMHO.
Zoss Arwr
16 hours ago
Also, I bet your mute list was as long as an interstate freeway..... Gab attracted neo nazis and alt-right retards, on purpose, did no real moderation of the conversation there, and when it devolved into a total shitshow that fomented a mass murder the owners acted like they did nothing whatsoever to instigate it. As if by ignoring the violent threats that were reported to them and the constant incitement of violence on their platform, they did nothing wrong. Bullshit. Gab is very much to blame.
Rasko Solsky
16 hours ago
I never bothered to count, but I imagine it was a couple hundred or more. I completely concur with your other points, for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere. You can't pretend to own something, take no responsibility for it, then act shocked when someone turns it to their own ends and abuses it.
Zoss Arwr
16 hours ago
Absolutely.