Two more platforms have suspended Gab in the wake of Pittsburgh shooting

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Verge

Hours after Paypal confirmed that it had suspended social network platform Gab, two additional companies have informed the site that they plan to suspend their services: payment processing site Stripe, and cloud hosting company Joyent.

Last night, Gab posted a screenshot of a notification from Joyent, which says that it “received notice of breach of the Joyent Terms of Service,” and that it would suspend the site as of 9:00AM ET on Monday, October 29th. Gab says that it will “likely be down for weeks because of this,” and that it is working on a solution.

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Later that evening, Gab posted a second notification: Stripe says that it has suspended the site’s account while it conducts an investigation, saying that Gab has “not provided us sufficient evidence that Gab actually prevents violations of our policies in your Gab Pro service, or any other portion of your service that relies on Stripe for monetization.” Stripe estimates that its investigation conclude within a week.

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Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/28/18034126/gab-social-network-stripe-joyent-deplatforming-hate-speech-pittsburgh-shooting

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I'll count this as a small amount of good news.

[RHMerriman]

1. When their business is more trouble than it's worth, they will get shut down

When their business is more trouble than it's worth, they will get shut down.

Capitalism is like that, which suggests the obvious strategy for those who don't care for the Gabs of the world.

[getagrip_already]

2. these businesses are like poison ivy...

They will just pop up in a new spot and be every bit as irritating.

New shell corp, maybe new directors, lines of credit, etc. All the user account info will be "purchased" and invitations sent.

Small hiccup. The beat goes on (pun intended).

[RHMerriman]

4. Yeah, but they still need the hosting service, infrastructure, etc, and god knows,

Yeah, but they still need the hosting service, infrastructure, etc, and god knows, they aren't smart enough to build any of it themselves.

All these little wannabee klansmen have an Achilles heel; none of them are bright enough to get a job and compete.

[sanatanadharma]

3. The rightously-wrong destroyed PC leaving piles of crap in the land of the really right

The wrong will be righted however by the power of capitol manifest in the corporate body of the majority of morality in the consumer-collective and the bottom line concerns of businesses.
Free enterprise!

[grantcart]

5. Never heard of them before this week, really disgusting. WIKI link below.

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

[Pity Puddles]

6. Now to get Twitter to revoke Gab's account

[salin]

7. Read this else where - and it made me shudder.

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Michael Exorcist II: The Heretic
?Verified account @MichaelEHayden

The CEO of Gab is again talking about loving free speech.

Reporters who are new to this site should know that he's called for the mass doxxing of reporters as revenge for negative coverage. He's also posted on Gab about teaching children to "hate" journalists.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. Of course, GAB is playing victim

Predictably, whining.

Link to tweet

[xor]

12. The CEO has a history of playing the victim after displaying obnoxious behavior

Here's an article about him a couple years ago. You can see from his own words kind of person he is.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-from-y-combinator/


His insanity is even more apparent when you read the entire thread around that facebook page... Seemed like a rather rational and fair exchange of thoughts https://www.facebook.com/garry/posts/10102671732962523?pnref=story

[Delphinus]

9. I have never heard of this place (gab)

I went over and looked - made me ill.

There are so many platforms I don't know about. I went to one recently (can't recall its name) and amazed at the ugliness.

[SergeStorms]

10. We have to make it so....

that the only method for these hateful bastards to communicate with each other is smoke signals, then arrest them for polluting the air.

[keithbvadu2]

11. This topic referred from another DU topic...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142188423

This topic referred from another DU topic…

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142188868
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Pittsburgh synagogue killer…

The account's final post referred to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which works to resettle refugees in the United States: "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

Hours later, 11 people lay dead.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/gab-forced-offline-over-apparent-tie-to-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter/

[Calista241]

13. Eh, just like that Daily Stormer, they'll find some hosting company out in some country that is

willing to host them.

[RainCaster]

14. GoDaddy has also shut them down

Without DNS services, they can't be found on the interwebs.