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Gab Has Been Breached

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Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by dillondoyle »

totalZero wrote: post #15
gkoberger wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I edited my comment. The full quotes are much worse. Here's the details: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-...

Thanks, and wow... he sounds like a perpetual drain on the energy and sanity of all of the people around him.

The stuff he is tweeting from the official Gab twitter is truly hellishly insane !

"As per my policy of not communicating with non-Christian and/or communist journos, I will not be replying to this non-story. "

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1366954798524887042

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by _qwfv »

HNfriend234 wrote: post #25

I use gab quite frequently but mainly for the memes and jokes. The vast majority of people on there use pseudonymous aliases anyways so no one cares if the site gets hacked. People on the right-wing have also been subject to extensive persecution (harassment, doxing etc.) from the left-wing so we're all quite used to it by now. I'm been trying to teach as many people as possible about how to stay anonymous online, ho…

Do you think the average user, whose passwords are things like "password", used an email address that couldn't be tied to then to sign up? Because my guess is that a whole bunch of people do very much care that the stuff they wrote on gab can be traced back to the email account they use everywhere.

>> extensive persecution from the left-wing

Check your biases if you think this is somehow a one directional concern.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by Pfhreak »

mberning wrote: post #30

It seems like the author cares about the politics and religion of the Gab founder quite a lot, despite his assertions to the contrary. If you strip away all that it is still a very embarrassing breach. Having a data exfiltration of that magnitude is simply devastating.

What quotes lead you to that conclusion? How much of the overall article is dedicated to them? His article felt quite objective in tone.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #5

Gab is a joke. I got banned for making a post asking how are all the domestic terrorists Trump supporters doing after the capitol riot. I guess that is ban-worthy on their free speech network while advocating for assassinating public officials is a-ok.

I’m not a gab user, a Republican, or even an American for that matter. But it strikes me that what the situation seems to call for is more compassion and constructive discourse, but you seemingly wanted to harass people online under the guise of free speech.

I think I understand why that would lead to being banned just about anywhere. It doesn’t serve anyone in any useful way.

I don’t believe they should allow advocating assassination either, but I wouldn’t pretend these things are equivalent or that gab is politically unbiased. Regardless, what you were doing was unnecessary in its own right and i don’t see how it’s much different from what you’re criticizing.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by HNfriend234 »

mberning wrote: post #30

It seems like the author cares about the politics and religion of the Gab founder quite a lot, despite his assertions to the contrary. If you strip away all that it is still a very embarrassing breach. Having a data exfiltration of that magnitude is simply devastating.

No one using the platform even cares. Everyone on the platform just shares memes and jokes anyways. The people using gab aren't stupid like the people who use facebook where they put all their personal information out in the open for all to see.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by gkoberger »

sumedh wrote: post #29
gkoberger wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I edited my comment. The full quotes are much worse. Here's the details: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-...

> YC’s private social network, Bookface They could not find a better name than Bookface?

Haha I like it! It's vaguely amusing, and it's completely unique so easy to reference (vs "oh I posted it on the internal YC forums").

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by zz_throwaway_zz »

HNfriend234 wrote: post #25

I use gab quite frequently but mainly for the memes and jokes. The vast majority of people on there use pseudonymous aliases anyways so no one cares if the site gets hacked. People on the right-wing have also been subject to extensive persecution (harassment, doxing etc.) from the left-wing so we're all quite used to it by now. I'm been trying to teach as many people as possible about how to stay anonymous online, ho…

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Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by minimaxir »

gkoberger wrote: post #4
bsmith0 wrote: post #2

Wow, it is actually shocking how disgusting the CEO's comments are.

Yeah, he's the worst. I knew him in YC, and actually liked him. But I watched him spiral as he wasn't able to raise money for his startup, including starting to go to Trump rallies "out of curiosity". His FB posts began to include worse and worse rhetoric. It was crazy to watch him get radicalized in realtime. It ended in him harassing some (minority) YC founders who said they were scared by saying we should "Build t…

HN thread from 2016 on Torba getting booted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934388

Includes comments from Sam Altman and Torba, posting as rvcamo

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by spamizbad »

jb775 wrote: post #22
encryptluks2 wrote: post #5

Gab is a joke. I got banned for making a post asking how are all the domestic terrorists Trump supporters doing after the capitol riot. I guess that is ban-worthy on their free speech network while advocating for assassinating public officials is a-ok.

I bet it felt good to create an account for a website just so you could log in and say "how are all the domestic terrorists Trump supporters doing after the capitol riot?". That's pretty much the online equivalent of peeling-out in your car and thinking it made you look awesome.

True but it’s also free speech and as such should be permitted on a social network oriented around free speech.

Unless trolling doesn’t count as free speech?

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