Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting (ft.com)

Tech companies including PayPal and Stripe have suspended their services from Gab, a social network catering primarily to US conservatives that had been used by the man accused of killing 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. From a report: The moves are likely to reopen the debate about the limits of free speech online and the potential for social networks to radicalise users. Gab was launched two years ago by tech entrepreneur Andrew Torba, who became frustrated with what he perceived as a bias against conservative views on California-based social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. His site soon attracted controversial rightwing figures, including Richard Spencer and Alex Jones, who had been suspended or banned from other social networks. Robert Bowers, who has been charged over the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, was among Gab's hundreds of thousands of users, the company confirmed on Saturday. Mr Bowers, whose profile on Gab featured images of guns and white supremacist iconography, made anti-Semitic posts and threats on the site just hours before the shooting. Since Saturday's shooting, Gab has been accused of not doing enough to prevent free expression from tipping over into hate speech on its site.

Online payments companies PayPal and Stripe, as well as hosting provider Joyent, all said they would stop Gab from using their services, [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled, alternative source] citing violations of their terms of services, which do not allow hate speech. Gab slammed the moves as "direct collusion between big tech giants" against it. This weekend is not the first time that Gab has been sharply criticised for the content it hosts.Last year, after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Google removed Gab from Google Play, its mobile app store, claiming it violated its policy on hate speech.

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Re:blame social media

[lgw]

yeah social media made him do it, riiiight.

Well, he did tweet that the only good reason to buy a MAGA hat is to burn it. Clearly he was radicalized by Trump-haters on Twitter. Also, this proves that Twitter is anti-Semitic.

Has anyone called for the banning of the brand of car he drove to the shooting?

Re:In before someone says it

[meglon]

It's interesting that you are doing the exact thing you're complaining about liberals doing. Lets face it, conservatives project so much because they complain about things they PERCEIVE liberals would do....and they think liberals would do those things BECAUSE that's what conservatives would do in that position. Conservatives can't understand that other people can be better than their most basic vices.

As for you, we've already established your just a fucking idiot.... and you certainly don't know shit about liberals or how they think. As for what conservatives think... well, Jesus said to feed the hungry, heal the sick, cloth and shelter those in need.... and conservatives vote people into office that do EXACTLY OPPOSITE of that. Your rewriting of history in your post would be laughable if you weren't so fucking stupid as to believe yourself.