Right now, Gab.com is in the midst of another attack against it, having been given a deadline by the hosting provider. Gab is a message board extremely similar to Twitter, but without the extreme censorship. It's a platform for free speech, one of the few left online. This has been a very important and influential website over the last many months, especially for right wing thinkers who can't get a word in edgewise on outlets like Facebook and Twitter. My account there is @JeffersonLocke. A lot of the more influential Gabbers and bloggers are advising followers to seek them out on their blogs or on backup websites. Concerned American at WRSA is one of them.
The message today from founder and CEO Andrew Torba:
"Breaking: @joyent, Gab's new hosting provider, has just pulled our hosting service. They have given us until9am 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."
I'll keep y'all posted. An hour ago, I was able to access the site with some slowdowns and a few error messages. At this moment, most of my attempts yield a "500" error message.
The fight is happening in real time.
Call if what they will, I suspect it's all another attempt at censorship.
ReplyDeleteHere's the real reason why Gab got guillotined, according to Alt Right leader Vox Day.
ReplyDelete"If you recall, the original cause of my break with Gab and Andrew Torba was due to his absolute refusal to eliminate the criminal and pornographic material that infested the site. I told him that it wasn't about me or my preference for not being libeled, it was something that he was going to have to do if he wanted Gab to remain operational. I even offered to design a game-style moderation system that would have eliminated any need for an Orwellian Trust & Safety Council of the sort that Twitter, Facebook, and Indiegogo presently utilize."
"And we all know how that ended. Instead of listening to me, Torba responded by calling me a crybaby for protesting his free-speech defense of the Alt-Retards who were not only libeling me, but also posting images of a woman being gang-raped by Africans with my wife's head photoshopped onto it on Gab."
"So, I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for either Gab or Torba. I was confident that Torba's stubbornness, volatility, and lack of professionalism was eventually going to sink the site, and it's more than a little appropriate that it should be Gab's connection to the very Alt-Retards he defended so assiduously that is proving to be its primary vulnerability to those seeking to destroy it."
I have two reasons for why I have trouble believing that is the reason Gab is being attacked:
Delete1) I have been on Gab for a while now, have hundreds of followers, and still never had anyone spam me with any sort of pornogrphic material, nor had anyone I followed, or any of my followers, ever post any sort of criminal behavior that I observed.
2) There are tons of websites out there in cyberspace that a chock full of porn material that aren't even porn sites, and they manage to get along without being deplatformed. Gab didn't attract the attention of it's hosting service or the MSM because of porn or posters posting mean stuff. They attracted their attention because they're not locking down opinions of non-leftists.
My Twitter account just got permanently locked because I posted on CNN's page that the MSM was blaming the right for the Synagogue shooting where 12 died, but when 25 were killed in a Baptist Church in Texas by a left wing atheist, the MSM blamed only the weapon itself. Permanently suspended.