GAB.AI is offline(gab.ai)
gab.ai
GAB.AI is offline
https://gab.ai/
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Gab's own (verified) Twitter account posts anti-Semitic slurs and retweets white supremacist garbage. They openly court white nationalists. They've since tried to delete posts, but, of course, many of them have been screenshot. They don't even have the courage of their own convictions. The idea that they just happen to have had some nasty users is a scam that they're trying to get the rest of the world to buy into.
Argue whatever you'd like about whether, on the modern Internet, they're entitled to use mainstream providers on FRAND terms. You can build a coherent argument on either side. But please don't amplify their bogus claim of being an innocent victim.
Argue whatever you'd like about whether, on the modern Internet, they're entitled to use mainstream providers on FRAND terms. You can build a coherent argument on either side. But please don't amplify their bogus claim of being an innocent victim.
If what you say is true, then I was ignorant and I apologise for that. I suppose judging them for them is just fine. But I stand by the rest of my comment.
"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself." - John Stewart Mill (in On Liberty)
"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself." - John Stewart Mill (in On Liberty)
No apology needed! I understand how attractive the argument Gab is making is. That's why they're making it. There's no reason you should have had to be vigilant about this bunch of evil randos. I appreciate you taking a beat to listen.
It seems like the common thread of gab members is slime, but regardless I am rather disturbed at them being kicked offline by their domain registrar which seems a bit removed from the content business.
It is however hilarious that the dns registrar in question is those mega scumbags godaddy!
It is however hilarious that the dns registrar in question is those mega scumbags godaddy!
Plus1 !
But I could see hosting and Paypal object to it. The domain registrar is totally out, they are tens of thousands of horrible domains out there, no one blames the registrar.
The problem is that this tactic will be used to take down everything that is today or becomes in 10-20 years "out of mainstream."
But I could see hosting and Paypal object to it. The domain registrar is totally out, they are tens of thousands of horrible domains out there, no one blames the registrar.
The problem is that this tactic will be used to take down everything that is today or becomes in 10-20 years "out of mainstream."
It's fun watching everyone learn the other freedom in the 1st amendment is the freedom of association. (Even though that doesn't matter for the non-governmental entities here.)
Also, good riddance
Also, good riddance
It's also showing that the Internet is being controlled by an oligarchy.
If a site cannot get hosting and IP connectivity from /somewhere/ then there's a problem in the system.
This is a definite wakeup to the fact that if you want to do anything a little bit controversial (freedom of speech is the very first US amendment, how controversial can that be?) then you need decentralized, uncontrollable systems like Tor hidden services and NameCoin.
If a site cannot get hosting and IP connectivity from /somewhere/ then there's a problem in the system.
This is a definite wakeup to the fact that if you want to do anything a little bit controversial (freedom of speech is the very first US amendment, how controversial can that be?) then you need decentralized, uncontrollable systems like Tor hidden services and NameCoin.
If some posts on gab are direct incitement of violence, they should (and as I have heard, do) get removed. Trashing the entire service is IMHO something else entirely.
If a legal activity (gab acts entirely above board) simply cannot operate, not for lack of customers or other business operations but because they are blackballed, then something is rotten in the state of Denmark. I don't know what the right solution is.