Fascist social network Gab forced to shut down

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Go Daddy did not do those things others have.

You in these threads are trying to educate people as to what the right to free speech does and does not entail. I in my remarks are trying to do the same thing. As many on the right do not understand private companies censoring speech by withholding financial support does not violate the right to free speech many on the left do not understand that the right to free speech includes the right to opine hate speech without being a victim of a crime. Some in authority enable criminal attacks on hate speakers. If the right to free speech is not protected whether that speech is hate speech or a company breaking contracts because they do not like the content on a website the constitution is not worth the paper it is printed on.

Yeah, both the Right and the Left need to be educated on what “Rights” really are, and the responsibilities that go with them.

The Left won’t accept it, because they already learned all they need to know from their Leftist-dominated university curricula.

The Right won’t accept it, because they believe that their Word is Law.

Which puts the rest of us between the back end of a donkey and an elephantine manure pit.

It doesn't concern me what they allow or don't allow. They could allow all right-leaning content and I'd be fine with it, and I would agree with it personally. However, I still firmly believe that it is the right of a company to decide who it allows to use its service. They state their rules and allow their service to be used for free if those rules are followed.

I'd be fine with them silencing the left. I already disagree with a lot of what the left says and I'm sick of their arguments, as much as I am of aspects of the right. I think however that if they did block the feminists there, they would find new avenues to express their views, so no loss for the supposed "women's rights".

And even beyond this, as far as I can tell, there are already a lot of right leaning videos on YouTube, specifically videos that target those who oppose the right. I've even come across videos espousing more extreme right-wing rhetoric that haven't been taken down, as I've also seen from the radical left. But if we force government to dictate these private spaces to act publicly, like YouTube, then we're no different from a socialist country, which takes partial but not absolute control over its industries. In any sense, it will always end in the hands of a centralized individual or government and the rest of us loose.

This way anyone who disagrees with who YouTube allows can start their own sites, using their own providers. If a group of people can't find the support then they need to find a better way to convince people, as free speech is meant to be.

I don't see how there's a connection between my post and yours. I also reject the notion the right and alt-right are aligned. Their name says it all, alt-right! They moved away from the right.

You can see the increasing unison in the rising tide of the anti-left hysteria. You don't even have to look further than to cast an analytic eye on what is happening on Wrong Planet to see this toxic phenomenon.

Well we probably have something in common somewhere with just about anyone. You can even be solidly on the left and be technically in agreement with the alt-right that the far left is a problem. That doesn't make you aligned with the alt-right, and it doesn't make you wrong because someone else shares your view.

It's actually anti liberal. And liberals don't really support things the left used to support anymore.

Gab was shut down because the left winged Silicon Valley cabal hates them.

Yep and it is a rival to their monopoly.

Wow. I can't believe that there are posts in this thread asserting that tech companies are silencing right leaning voters. Tech companies, and people in general, don't care if you support right wing political beliefs about government and taxes. They're silencing Alt-Right, aka Neo Nazi, hate speech. There's a big difference. I personally applaud every effort anyone makes to wipe this hate speech BS off of the internet/tv/radio/print media etc.

You may applaud tech companies working with NATO and governments to ban mean speak or wrong think. But what you don't realise is that the same companies have worked with governments in South America to ban left wing organisations etc. The tech companies just work with who is in power to silence dissent. You can crow for people's rights to be taken away in the US but then the Republicans can use those laws to shut people like you up.

^Corporations aren't saints and will simply do whatever makes them money. Pretty sure they realize that Most of the world are not white people, and that many white people are not white supremacists.. so, of course they'll suppress white supremacist hate speech. It just happens to align with left views at the moment.

I agree, and would like to note also that since the enactment of the Genocide Convention that certain hate speech is ipso facto actually a punishable offense, mostly hate speech of the nazi/"alt-right" kind:



Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948 - Entry into force: 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII

You don't understand Goldfish. This has nothing to do with silencing white people or 'hate speech'. It is crushing dissent via propaganda. Whether that dissent comes through left or right wing voices. The main objective is to shut people up. It's pure fascism. You will cheer for it now but then change your mind and regret it when it affects you or your views.

You really think that neo nazi white supremacists should be allowed to run amok spreading their hatred in the name of freedom of speech?

Legally, yes. Personally, no.

I did not stop a co-worker from wearing his neo-nazi patches on his company-supplied work jacket. I merely pointed out that he was in violation of company rules that prohibit anyone from displaying political and religious slogans on company property. It was HE who declared "MY Freedom of Speech or I quit!"

I don't think that anyone misses him...