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Cattledog

(5,915 posts) Sat Oct 27, 2018, 07:00 PM Oct 2018

A good explanation of GAB for those who don't know..

"Gab has grown increasingly popular among alt-right activists and white nationalists whose views are unwelcome on other services. It grew out of claims of anti-conservative bias by Facebook and Twitter."

My question is how do they make money? Who would advertise on it?

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A good explanation of GAB for those who don't know.. (Original Post) Cattledog Oct 2018 OP

Hopefully no one. Need to shut this site down too, Paypal is doing a major step in doing... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #1

Private media platforms have no obligation to carry anything at all. It's entirely up to them. PSPS Oct 2018 #3

Ann Coulter and Alex Jones are among Gab's most popular users dalton99a Oct 2018 #2

Quelle surprise The Genealogist Oct 2018 #6

Maybe it's the wine I'm drinking, or the fact that I'm old, but I haven't the foggiest idea wtf GAB lindysalsagal Oct 2018 #4

It's twitter for scumbags. When scum gets banned from twitter they go over to Gab. nt UniteFightBack Oct 2018 #5

oh. It's a message platform. Thanks. lindysalsagal Oct 2018 #7

They've been kicked off the website hosting Gab. So they will be down for some weeks. Hopefully applegrove Oct 2018 #8

SWBTATTReg

(22,130 posts)

1. Hopefully no one. Need to shut this site down too, Paypal is doing a major step in doing...

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 07:11 PM

Oct 2018

so. Hopefully w/ the exposure that GAB is getting (probably unwanted), the cockroaches and rats on GAB will run and hide back underneath the rocks and bridges again where they belong, and members of this org. need to be exposed publicly and shamed. I know that there is free speech but hate speech? There is a line here being crossed.

PSPS

(13,600 posts)

3. Private media platforms have no obligation to carry anything at all. It's entirely up to them.

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 07:51 PM

Oct 2018

There is no guarantee of "free speech" on a private media platform. Facebook, Twitter, GAB and the rest are free to limit everything that appears. The only reason they don't is to fatten their wallets. That's all they care about. They're like Les Moonves, CBS CEO, who said, "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

2. Ann Coulter and Alex Jones are among Gab's most popular users

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 07:15 PM

Oct 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)

6. Quelle surprise

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 08:01 PM

Oct 2018

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)

4. Maybe it's the wine I'm drinking, or the fact that I'm old, but I haven't the foggiest idea wtf GAB

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 07:55 PM

Oct 2018

is. I thought it meant to talk alot. No?

Can someone help out an old lady and just say it plainly? Perhaps, in 20th century american vernacular? Thanks.

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)

5. It's twitter for scumbags. When scum gets banned from twitter they go over to Gab. nt

Reply to lindysalsagal (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 07:57 PM

Oct 2018

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)

7. oh. It's a message platform. Thanks.

Reply to UniteFightBack (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 08:18 PM

Oct 2018

applegrove

(118,677 posts)

8. They've been kicked off the website hosting Gab. So they will be down for some weeks. Hopefully

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Sun Oct 28, 2018, 12:16 AM

Oct 2018

long enough for nobody else to be killed in election season.They have to find a new website. I'm sure the right wing will come together and create a web hosting site.

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