[daxterspeed]

Setting up your own hosting provider (read: servers) might be a bit of a hassle, but it's nothing compared to setting up your own telephone network. Gab is free to purchase their own servers and provide the necessary facilities.

[legostormtroopr]

Sure, you don't need shared hosting, just setup your own servers. Until someone kicks you out of there server space...

Sure, you don't need shared server space, just setup your own co-location facility. Until someone decides not to give you backhaul...

Or until someone decides they won't provide you with DNS. Or DDoS protection. Or Payment gateway. Or... or... or...

The reality we are facing is that some political opinions (even relatively benign ones) aren't allowed access to the same resources as others.

Gab is benign, they started based on people getting kicked off Twitter - because you don't need Twitter, just start your own. So they did. And now they find themselves being booted around, because of virtue signalling tech companies.

[anarazel]

> Gab is benign, they started based on people getting kicked off Twitter

Read the official twitter profile (what they write and reteweet). And then tell me again that they're not explicitly reaching for the racist fringe.