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To replace Twitter use
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To replace Youtube use
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Not that Google is much different - for example the free-speech social network Gab ( https://gab.ai/ ) is not available in either appstore.

What does alt-right conspiracy bullshit (shit doesn't even qualify as theories) have to do with free speech?

Not that Google is much different - for example the free-speech social network Gab ( https://gab.ai/ ) is not available in either appstore.

> Tell me something, liitle conservative snowflakes: Where are all the
> conservative youtube, twitter, facebook, snapchat, instagram, etc of
> this world ? How come no conservative has ever come up with ideas like this ?

Want Youtube without the lib-left censors? ==> https://www.bitchute.com/

Want Twitter without the lib-left censors? ==> https://gab.ai/

No mention of https://www.gab.ai? How sad. Probably only place where you can actually have a honest conversatiuon and exchange of ideas. It's not like twitter, where ADL tells you what you can and can not say or even think.

And just today, Gab TV went online.

My experience with gab was first that I was like "Yay! No censorship of political opinions! I am there."

Turns out that, while it is not that uncensored speech is inherently bad speech, when only a few forums permit that then they become magnets for those prohibited elsewhere. I am not one of those people who is afraid of exposure to opinions which I oppose, but let me put it this way: There was a limit to how many times I could see some variation or another on "Jews suck!" before I was like, well, I don't really want to waste my time looking at this crap.

And just today, Gab TV went online.

Seriously - why do these companies think they need to direct our thoughts and actions into "acceptable" channels?

There's an interesting set of "public forum" lawsuits that discuss this. Especially this one from CA.

Basically, if a system becomes the equivalent of the town bulletin board, then freedom of speech must be enforced.

(I recall a man suing a mall for taking down his (otherwise legal) posts on *their* builletin board. They claimed that their board was private property, and could decide what was allowed. He claimed that the mall replaced the supermarket which used to be there, and the mall bulletin-board now became the public forum that used to be the supermarket bulletin-board.)

I think the dividing line would have to be public access. If you *pay* someone to write (for example) articles for your paper, then you can control what they write and choose to publish or not. If you *let anyone* post commentary or opinions, then first amendment must be enforced.

(Oh and if you disagree, can you please show why companies don't need to enforce freedom of speech, while bakeries must make custom gay wedding cakes when they don't want to? They're both 1st amendment issues.)

A fuckton of people are on Gab after getting kicked off of twitter, and are running a thread Not Allowed on Twitter.

And as long as Gab shows a login screen instead of the thread that you linked to, Twitter will not need to worry about the competition.

I look forward to seeing Antifa accounts suspended.

Good luck with that.

A fuckton of people are on Gab after getting kicked off of twitter, and are running a thread Not Allowed on Twitter.

I realize this is probably a biased sample, but there's a lot of "*this* got me kicked off, while *that* is allowed" posts that highlight the double-standard.

It would seem that left-leaning posts are taken with a wink and a smile, while right-leaning posts are censored with an overreaching iron fist. It's often completely mysterious what twitter standards are violated; apparently talking about and linking to someone twitter doesn't like (such as Milo) is enough to get you banned, even if the actual text is pedestrian such as "I saw this guy speak last night and he was OK".

There was one post that came out completely against Nazis (saying things like "Nazis are bad, I don't condone nazis, and the like) and apparently used the word "nazi" too many times and got banned. All from completely unexciting text.

Here's an example of a post that's *allowed* on twitter.

They already did....

Its called Gab.ai, alt right phenom VoxDay promoted it endlessly a while back.

https://gab.ai/

Well, go start your own web forum. If you don't like what Twitter does, there's a whole world out there. Go to it. But I guarantee you, if you simply allow the cranks to control your medium, it will fester into nothingness.

Someone did, it's called Gab.ai, and it's specifically a haven for free speech.

Their version of censoring is to let everyone censor what *they* see on the site. An individual can "mute" other users or specific words, so if someone keeps posting things that bother you you can "mute" them so that you don't see them. If individual words trigger an unpleasant memory for you, you can mute individual words and you'll never see them.

The thing about calling people racist/sexist/nazi is definitely real.

Kellyanne Conway typing on her cell phone during a meeting of black dignitaries is definitely racist!

From that facebook post:

I sincerely doubt that Kellyanne Conway would be on the couch, shoes off, on her knees, looking at her phone, if the room was full of white dignitaries or CEOs that she actually actually respected.

Here's the full context which shows that she was setting her phone to take a group photo.

People are seeing racism everywhere right now, even where it doesn't exist!

. . . . more users to Gab, where the only filters on what you see, are the ones **you** set on your own account

The average celebrity has an order of magnitude more twitter followers than Gab has users.(Heck, even a spoof account does ) As much as I'd like there to be an alternative, a service with 0.04% the users doesn't feel like a challenger.

. . . . more users to Gab, where the only filters on what you see, are the ones **you** set on your own account

Gab.ai is a twitter replacement that has started up recently and is collecting a lot of interest

From the alt-right, ordinary people aren't going to join.

Twitter seems to be taking sides with half of it's userbase, and driving the other half away.

Gab.ai's logo is an obvious reference to Pepe the frog who has been claimed by the alt-right as is associated with white nationalism. They are very clearly taking sides.

I've always felt that taking sides in customer arguments (against other customers) was a bad thing, but they're vigorously doing that so I'm sure there's some corporate benefit that I'm missing.

It's called protecting their users, not to mention their image since they don't want to become associated with the alt-right and racism.

Gab allows each user to filter out anything they don't want to see, either other users or specific words. This seems like it's the right solution, because it allows people to use the system without seeing things they find distasteful, while not infringing on other peoples' free speech. I can only imagine that people will put together recommended word lists in topics such as pornography, or vulgarity, or meanness, that others can download and install.

Twitter has filtering tools as well, the problem with harassment is that the harassees really want to harass, and it's really hard to effectively filter people who are dedicated to circumvent the anti-harassment tools.

So if you're concerned about twitter shutting down, check out Gab.ai as an alternate system.

Can Gab.ai find a sustainable model with an alt-right userbase? Sure.

But they're not going to be the next Twitter, they're not going to get mainstream celebrities and brands joining a service that's associated with the alt-right and was built around people who got kicked off Twitter.

Regardless of your opinions of Trump, it seems pretty ignorant to suggest that Twitter shutting down would completely de-fang him.

It is almost like you're implying that the shutdown of Twitter equates to the shutdown of social media as a concept.

Gab.ai is a twitter replacement that has started up recently and is collecting a lot of interest.

Their product advantage - the thing that differentiates them from the rest of the market - is that they enforce free speech. So long as the speech isn't something that's patently illegal in the US, it's allowed on their site. (Disallowed: illegal pornography, threats and terrorism, doxing/publishing private information.)

Twitter seems to be taking sides with half of it's userbase, and driving the other half away. I've always felt that taking sides in customer arguments (against other customers) was a bad thing, but they're vigorously doing that so I'm sure there's some corporate benefit that I'm missing.

Gab allows each user to filter out anything they don't want to see, either other users or specific words. This seems like it's the right solution, because it allows people to use the system without seeing things they find distasteful, while not infringing on other peoples' free speech. I can only imagine that people will put together recommended word lists in topics such as pornography, or vulgarity, or meanness, that others can download and install.

So if you're concerned about twitter shutting down, check out Gab.ai as an alternate system.

And once again, Facebook is a private organization, and has the right to remove any content they want to. Don't like it, go use some other social networking platform.

Of course, that does mean the fake news purveyors are likely to start losing the large audience they had relied on, but is that such a bad thing? There's always Breitbart and Stormfront!

On that note, a Twitter replacement called Gab.ai has sprung up that claims to enforce free speech.

It's currently in beta so signups are put on a waiting list, but I managed to get in pretty quick (the wait was less than a week). It's not as sophisticated as Twitter is *currently*, but I really like the free speech aspect of it.

Speech they don't tolerate are things that are patently illegal in the US, plus doxing: Illegal pornography, threats and terrorism, and private information.

If you're bothered by someone, you can set a personal filter to remove their posts from your feed. If you're bothered by certain words, you can set another filter to remove posts with those words.

Beyond that, they claim that they will make no restrictions on free speech.

In the 2 months since it started it's become reasonably popular. According to Alexa rankings, it's currently about the same as Slashdot (after 2 months!).

ATM gab seems to be under-represented by the left. People are mostly civil, and...

wonder of wonders... the humour channel is actually funny.

And once again, Facebook is a private organization, and has the right to remove any content they want to. Don't like it, go use some other social networking platform.

Of course, that does mean the fake news purveyors are likely to start losing the large audience they had relied on, but is that such a bad thing? There's always Breitbart and Stormfront!

On that note, a Twitter replacement called Gab.ai has sprung up that claims to enforce free speech.

It's currently in beta so signups are put on a waiting list, but I managed to get in pretty quick (the wait was less than a week). It's not as sophisticated as Twitter is *currently*, but I really like the free speech aspect of it.

Speech they don't tolerate are things that are patently illegal in the US, plus doxing: Illegal pornography, threats and terrorism, and private information.

If you're bothered by someone, you can set a personal filter to remove their posts from your feed. If you're bothered by certain words, you can set another filter to remove posts with those words.

Beyond that, they claim that they will make no restrictions on free speech.

In the 2 months since it started it's become reasonably popular. According to Alexa rankings, it's currently about the same as Slashdot (after 2 months!).

ATM gab seems to be under-represented by the left. People are mostly civil, and...

wonder of wonders... the humour channel is actually funny.

There's already Gab.ai

They barely covered a couple of items of evidence in that.

Now, with as many connections as have been found, I'm sure there are more than a few bogus ones. The problem is that there's a ton of them. Now, it's very possible that it's all smoke and no fire, the problem is that you can't fairly decide that without the painful task of going through every little thing, so declaring "no, that's wrong" without actually touching most of the evidence is far less convincing to anyone who has looked into it than one might hope.

It doesn't help that Reddit, Twitter & Wikipedia all seem to want to make it simply disappear, an ironic stance as they were once the place for suppressed ideas to go. A trend that makes me wonder if we'll see a "censorship treadmill" like the euphamism treadmill, wherein new sites are constantly born to take over those that succumb to censorship at the hands of their owners.

Anyhow, for anyone keeping tabs:

Reddit's /r/pizzagate -> Voat's /v/pizzagate
Wikipedia -> Infogalactic
Twitter -> Gab.ai

Well, I still haven't seen any smoking guns just yet, only a lot of strange things that point in a bad direction or to bad taste in art & friends. I don't know too many Democrats these days eager to retain friendships with Republicans, let alone those who are also convicted child molesters, but it's not exactly illegal either. There's nothing illegal about saying that "traffic is really warm and really weird in light of Hastert" but people who have seen enough strange uses of language regarding what they suspect are codewords could read that in a weird way.

But by banning pizzagate, they've only made it better known. They didn't even manage to shut it down, it /r/pizzagate lives on Voat now as /v/pizzagate. Twitter users outraged that they did nothing about pedo pics someone allegedly pointed out on twitter gab.ai. Wikipedia censors all but a pitiful mention of it, so it's documented on Infogalactic.

There are still the usual problems with idiots who fake something to troll the community, though, but they're working on moderating that out. For example, I know at least one of the claims of steganography in the images appeared to be fake. There certainly wasn't any ZIP file marker in the image I found on Wikileaks, though it wasn't clear if you were supposed to use some steganography program first.

You know things are bad when their stock price drops back to under $20, their COO quits, a whole new site — Gab was created to fight their wildly biased censorship practice, and to solve the problem, they put the ban-hammer into overdrive.
Twitter's key shareholders include #3: Steve "Monkeyboy" Balmer, and #2: Saudi royal PrinceAlwaleed Bin Talal. Meanwhile buyout investors are not happy with what they see.

E=mc2 asserts that the energy (E) in an unmoving particle is equal to the square of the speed of light (c2) times the mass (m) of that particle.[1] The complete form, when applied to moving objects, is E2=(mc2)2+(pc)2, where p represents momentum,[2] It is a statement that purports to relate all matter to energy. In fact, no theory has successfully unified the laws governing mass (i.e., gravity) with the laws governing light (i.e., electromagnetism), and numerous attempts to derive E=mc2from first principles have failed.[3] Political pressure, however, has since made it impossible for anyone pursuing an academic career in science to even question the validity of this nonsensical equation. Simply put, E=mc2 is liberal claptrap.

The formula asserts that the mass of an object, at constant energy, magically varies precisely in inverse proportion to the square of a change in the speed of light over time,[4] which violates conservation of mass and disagrees with commonsense.[5]

Physicists have never been able to unify light with matter[6]despite more than a billion-dollars-worth of attempts, and it is likely impossible to ever do so.[7] Biblical Scientific Foreknowledge predicts that there is no unified theory of light and matter because they were created at different times, in different ways, as described in the Book of Genesis.

We now have Gab which is supposed to be a conservative version of Twitter. It might become even more successful than Conservapedia.

So, I see an echo chamber that the far right creates their OWN version of twitter

Already done in response to twitter censorship.

It's being replaced by Gab

We need a new poll. Now that Twitter is just about done, where should I go? I jumped on Twitter years ago as my news "firehouse". Over the years it's morphed - my feed that is - into a pretty narrow view of the world. Time to move on because this isn't healthy!

There's a new company in beta trying to replace twitter https://gab.ai/ haven't used it so far but they've committed themselves to free speech. That said, they are a Russian outfit so take it with a grain of salt.