10/10 on IASIP title card usage, 1/10 on platform moderation
It's amazing that a company did this for such a post. I personally appreciate it, but I doubt people in Congress would find it funny - more likely flippant.
Gab.com’s Response to Congress
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Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#22Funny they say they protect free speech when I was promptly banned from there for posting anti-Trump comments. encryptluks2 FSM is real
Vague claim. Show us what you posted. I have read anti-trump comments every day since the beginnings of Gab.
Note that Trump supporters constantly cite being "shouted down" as a form of censorship, which, legitimate or not, is much more deeply hypocritical.
Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#23Feels like Gab just made itself a target of direct investigation. While you may not agree with how Congress acts, thumbing your nose at them directly is a great way to have the focus put solely on you.
Why would anyone want to voluntarily hand over data? It can only lead to consequences to their user base, thus not being in their interest. The gov puts out way too many requests for info as it stands.
Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#24Feels like Gab just made itself a target of direct investigation. While you may not agree with how Congress acts, thumbing your nose at them directly is a great way to have the focus put solely on you.
I may be out of the loop a bit, but do these "requests" have any real power? It seems like subpoenas would have been the appropriate legal instrument if they needed to carry the full weight of Congress.
IANAL, but yes that's right as far as I understand it. But a request can very quickly become a demand
Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#25> American citizens may have freedom of speech, but they find themselves with vanishingly few public forums in which to exercise it fully. Well put. As we've also seen from numerous leaks and incidents over the years, big business and government often works hand-in-hand, with revolving door policies and barely legal indirect bribes happening regularly. That the government is now seeking to curtail the First Amendment…
What pressure? Gab is not in trouble. You just don't have the right to conspire to overthrow the government. It's well-understood that Gab is not in any danger, but its members are if they did.
Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#26Feels like Gab just made itself a target of direct investigation. While you may not agree with how Congress acts, thumbing your nose at them directly is a great way to have the focus put solely on you.
I may be out of the loop a bit, but do these "requests" have any real power? It seems like subpoenas would have been the appropriate legal instrument if they needed to carry the full weight of Congress.
Generally the requests are a polite prelude to a subpoena. The subpoena process is a bit of a pain, so they'll skip it if the recipient is okay handing stuff over, but its presence is always felt.
Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#27Feels like Gab just made itself a target of direct investigation. While you may not agree with how Congress acts, thumbing your nose at them directly is a great way to have the focus put solely on you.
I may be out of the loop a bit, but do these "requests" have any real power? It seems like subpoenas would have been the appropriate legal instrument if they needed to carry the full weight of Congress.
Yes. It can result in a contempt charge, if the recipient does not comply.
Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#28> All internal or external reviews, studies, reports, data, analyses, and related communications regarding your platform and (i) misinformation, disinformation and malinformation relating to the 2020 election; (ii) efforts to overturn, challenge, or otherwise interfere with the 2020 election or the certification of electoral college results; (iii) Domestic violent extremists, etc.; and (iv) foreign malign influence in the 2020 election etc.
Gab does not have (and has never had) such records in its care, custody or control.
Does this mean they keep zero user records or server logs?
It's also ironic to claim "sunlight is the best disinfectant, electric light the most efficient policeman" only to protest in response to a lawful demand to preserve records. (Question 7.)
Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#29> Gab does not have (and has never had) such records in its care or control In response to a request for all “related communications” to terrorism/Jan. 6 etc. It strains belief that they haven’t even discussed these topics internally.
I used to work for a former U.S. Marine who had a good quote - "don't write when you can speak, don't speak when you can nod, and don't nod when you can wink".
Re: Gab.com’s Response to Congress
#30This should be an interesting comment section, because HN was almost unanimously opposed to Gab and Parler around the time of the capitol riots, but recently I’ve seen more of a pro free speech angle here, especially as it relates to Facebook censoring links in private messages.