Can someone provide background context for gab.com?
Gab.com banned from PayPal
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#12I am sort of assuming this is related to this article? https://www.businessinsider.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-shootin...
Is Twitter, who also gave him a forum and declined to censor or punish him for threatening tweets, being similarly affected?
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#13Breaking: Gab Upset by the same treatment they promise in their legal terms: "Termination We may terminate your access to and use of the Services, at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you." [1] 1- https://gab.com/about/tos
Most companies have something in their ToS to the effect of "we can do whatever we want" -- that doesn't mean they're all the same. For example, Stripe and PayPal both have essentially the same ToS. But only PayPal has so many "banned for no reason" horror stories that there are multiple websites dedicated to cataloging them.
Don’t conflate this story with “banned for no reason”. There are plenty of reasons to ban Gab.
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#14Can someone provide background context for gab.com?
Twitter : Gab :: Reddit : Voat
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#15Breaking: Gab Upset by the same treatment they promise in their legal terms: "Termination We may terminate your access to and use of the Services, at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you." [1] 1- https://gab.com/about/tos
Most companies have something in their ToS to the effect of "we can do whatever we want" -- that doesn't mean they're all the same. For example, Stripe and PayPal both have essentially the same ToS. But only PayPal has so many "banned for no reason" horror stories that there are multiple websites dedicated to cataloging them.
Paypal banned me when I was 12 for using a 20% off coupon to buy a pencil from myself for $500. Let me keep the $100 after holding the $500 for 6 months. Best CD ive ever had.
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#16Was Gab actively supporting the hateful groups more than just giving them a speech platform? Because if not, this is truly terrifying. It seems like the "left" (whatever that means), with waves of ignorant support, is turning into the monster it thinks it's fighting against.
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#17I am sort of assuming this is related to this article? https://www.businessinsider.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-shootin... Is Twitter, who also gave him a forum and declined to censor or punish him for threatening tweets, being similarly affected?
Twitter doesn't use PayPal to process payments, does it?
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#18Atripe froze gab a few weeks ago, and PayPal put gab on notice for allowing a post with the Navy Seal copypasta aimed at the PayPal CEO.
https://gizmodo.com/stripe-freezes-gabs-account-for-nsfw-con...
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#19Breaking: Gab Upset by the same treatment they promise in their legal terms: "Termination We may terminate your access to and use of the Services, at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you." [1] 1- https://gab.com/about/tos
That's just a catch-all for "our house, our rules". Legal authority aside, it's political warfare and nothing more.
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#20Can someone provide background context for gab.com?
A "free speech social network" used by white supremacists, neo-nazis and other extremists who have been banned elsewhere from social media (among others - I know people will be triggered if I don't explicitly disambiguate that not all Gab users are extremists and racists) and recently by the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.