Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
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Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
#2I'm not even white, nor do I honestly "admire" white people per se. But it seems perfectly okay to say- "kill all white people" on twitter. Only recently Australian parliament voted against a symbolic motion- "It's okay to be white". And nobody seems to raise a finger. I mean fucking white people ruined Asia, sure. But it had nothing to do with their skin color and it was the ancestors.
Somehow gab is the bad guy here just because a certain group is the one being victimized. Also just to be clear, I have nothing against jews (before you read my name and call me an "enemy"). Just like nothing against whites.
I just want fairness. Period.
Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
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Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
#4Joyent is a private company, they can choose to refuse doing business with anyone they like to, I think this was confirmed (by supreme court) a few weeks ago when some baker refused the business of a gay couple. (That decision is protected by the same first amendment that Gab claims to be protecting! Brilliant really.)
However, for everyone looking to host at Joyent: Beware they might cancel on you, too. And giving a company 2 days notice is far beyond comprehension. I wouldn't want to deal with this. I think it's really poor business standards.
Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
#5I'm not even white, nor do I honestly "admire" white people per se. But it seems perfectly okay to say- "kill all white people" on twitter. Only recently Australian parliament voted against a symbolic motion- "It's okay to be white". And nobody seems to raise a finger. I mean fucking white people ruined Asia, sure. But it had nothing to do with their skin color and it was the ancestors. Somehow gab is the bad guy her…
Gab hosts many, many, white supremacists. It has become a dumping ground for every social network's rejects...the people who've been booted from Twitter, reddit, etc (platforms that have been criticized for being slow to remove hate speech and incitement to violence, etc.) have congregated on Gab.
This isn't a free speech issue, it is an issue of whether Joyent wants to have responsibility for spreading that kind of thing. They don't, so they aren't. They gave Gab time to sort out alternatives, even though the kinds of things Gab hosts conflict with Joyent's terms of service. I think Joyent is well within their rights to tell'em to kick rocks and go spread their shit somewhere else.
Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
#6I'm not even white, nor do I honestly "admire" white people per se. But it seems perfectly okay to say- "kill all white people" on twitter. Only recently Australian parliament voted against a symbolic motion- "It's okay to be white". And nobody seems to raise a finger. I mean fucking white people ruined Asia, sure. But it had nothing to do with their skin color and it was the ancestors. Somehow gab is the bad guy her…
Gab hosts many, many, white supremacists. It has become a dumping ground for every social network's rejects...the people who've been booted from Twitter, reddit, etc (platforms that have been criticized for being slow to remove hate speech and incitement to violence, etc.) have congregated on Gab. This isn't a free speech issue, it is an issue of whether Joyent wants to have responsibility for spreading that kind of…
You're arguing a tangential point. Why is it okay to say - "kill all whites" and the platform let's you be but not okay for a user to say "kill jews" and the platform boots the user and yet gets booted itself.
Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
#7The real question is, was there external pressure applied to the hosting company or was this entirely their own decision?
Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
#8The real question is, was there external pressure applied to the hosting company or was this entirely their own decision?
What is the "external pressure" in this case?
Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
#9The real question is, was there external pressure applied to the hosting company or was this entirely their own decision?
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Re: Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
#10The real question is, was there external pressure applied to the hosting company or was this entirely their own decision?
What is the "external pressure" in this case?
The usual lynch mobs (which FB & Twitter allow on their platform) reported it en masse I'm guessing. This works well for getting conservatives banned on social media because their report systems are somewhat automated, but it also works for domains and email providers. I think they recently got Gab booted off Azure too.