Alt-social network Gab booted from Google Play Store for hate speech

Wrongthink is not allowed in our workplace, or our platform.

~ ~ ~ Don't be evil ~ ~ ~

Presumably you can still side-load it so racists got nothing to complain about.

yikes... I'm conflicted. Not a huge fan of Torba, first of all. I checked out Gab a few times, and while I think intentions were good, there is a lot of hateful stuff there. That said, Gab as a platform and app doesn't itself promote hate, so I'm not sure I agree with removing it. That would be like removing Telegram because terrorists have been found to use it.

App Store never allowed Gab in the first place.

Meanwhile twitter is being used to threaten assassinations - https://twitter.com/search?q=assassinate%20trump&src=tyah

I get there's ugly stuff on the internet, but when did all the platforms decide to start being the moral center of determining what's acceptable speech. Hate speech is still protected speech (in the US anyways)[1] no matter how horrible it is.

> A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#Hate_speech_laws