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Social Media Site Gab Sues Google For Antitrust Violations Following Ban From Play Store (washingtonpost.com)
The social media site Gab.ai is accusing Google of violating federal antitrust laws when the tech giant booted Gab from the Google Play Store, according to lawsuit filed this week. From a report: The legal action is the latest salvo in an escalating battle between right-leaning technologists and leaders against Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Google. Gab alleges in the lawsuit that "Google deprives competitors, on a discriminatory basis, of access to the App Store, which an essential facility or resource." "Google is the biggest threat to the free flow of information," Gab chief executive Andrew Torba said in a statement. "Gab started to fight against the big tech companies in the marketplace, and their monopolistic conduct has forced us to bring the fight to the courtroom." Alternative source.
If they lose, they are no worse off than before. But the news coverage gives them lots of publicity to promote their business.
Google is clearly just blacklisting them because Google wants to shut them up. The cult leaders at Google are committed to persecuting nonbelievers and heretics.
Didn't the Supreme Court just rule that you can refuse to do business with someone for any reason you want? In that particular case it was cake makers not wanting to make wedding cakes for gay people and conservatives were all in favor of the idea of not forcing companies to serve people they don't like, but now that it's a conservative group whose custom is being refused they suddenly think it's a problem?
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The word "nazi" today more often indicates the presence of a radical leftist (or left-wing propagandist) than it does actual nazis.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
This is the same as it has always been. People need to endure the idiots or give up free speech. you can't have both.
People need to endure the idiots or give up free speech. you can't have both.
Spam/troll filters are not anti-free-speech. They are pro-freedom-not-to-listen.
More over, no-one owes you a soap box.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
And there is nothing stopping Gab simply offering the app on their own web site too, or are they complaining that they are not popular enough and need free advertising on Play to survive?
I often find that people who complain that other people are "too sensitive" are the first to cry and whine when something doesn't go their way. I believe it's called projection.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
A lot of my tax dollars goes to pay for things that I am 100% opposed to. Do I get to pick and choose too?
Nope.
You have to pay for border-jumping, drug-dealing, human-trafficking, illegal aliens to receive free transgender surgery along with the rest of us.
Because fuck you, that's why.