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by allsystemsgo 1755 days ago
I mean, he’s using his first amendment rights. That’s the point. What does his prior comments have to do with this?
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Tribalism. "Look! This person disagrees with you on this other unrelated topic. He's with the enemy, all his opinions are invalid!"

Kind of a sad state of affairs, but that's where we're at right now with political discourse in the United States. (And probably the whole world, to some extent. It's human nature.)

It's a reminder that Torba didn't create Gab to facilitate 'free speech'.

Gab is a site that censors 'obscenity' and whose CEO refuses to deal with journalists if they don't practise the same religion as him.

Gab exists only to facilitate far-right extremism, and 'hate speech' is the only form of unpopular speech for which Torba shows enthusiasm.

Yeah, no. You can curse all you like on Gab. Porn is censored.

There is a natural segregation between the Internet that is for porn, and the rest of it. For bandwidth reasons alone.