[The Father]

(09-19-2017 08:17 AM)Matt Forney Wrote:  

On one side, you have Vox Day, a man so egomaniacal that he named himself "Voice of God," tying down Gab with a nuisance suit because his fee-fees were hurt

Vox Day is an arrogant ass who is smart enough be far more interesting than he is, but ends up being far LESS interesting than he thinks he is! I think he has little-man's complex.

[Higgs Bosun]

Delete

[BBinger]

The moral of the story is that if you want to resist censorship imposed on your person, your best bet is starting your own blog instead of living off the charity of platforms that welcome all comers, fed or not. The forum Roosh runs here is good, not in spite of, but because of the bans and rules. The simple fact of the matter is you can't expect any platform open to all comers to not devolve into a toilet full of feds. The whole "free speech except for illegal content" shtick is nothing but pure fedbait. You end up with a couple hundred actual users and a few tens of thousands of feds trying to radicalize each other in sting operations.

I have a draft piece on my blog full of conclusions that I am going to have to rewrite to build the story of why, but where we are in 2018 is:

1. On the internet you don't get the franchise as an anon. A pen name or pseudonym is fine, but you have to build an identity even if you obscure the connection between you the writer and you the sack of meat.
2. If you don't register a GPG public key and use it to enforce the integrity of your online identity, you don't get the full franchise on the internet.
3. Man alone seekrit agent provacateur work where you eschew actual social networking is the mark of the Fed. (this point I have to strengthen in the rewrite)
4. Doxing isn't the end of the world. In spite of a merry band of scammers having substantial financial motivation to attempt silencing me in 2014 and the fact the connected my online writing pseudonym to my irl meatsack's slave name... My life has done nothing but go up from there.
   

We have to face the world as it is. Dope smoking is no longer rebellion, clean living and self improvement are. Act accordingly.

[Easy_C]

How the hell is this thread already on page 2?

Gab being shut down is easily the single most important story of the past few months. Alex Jones is one dude.

Gab is an entire PLATFORM that was important to organizing wrongthink. That they succeeded in killing this site is extremely disturbing and bodes very badly for the future.

[catoblepa]

Another confirmation that free market anarchism doesn't work: when all the platforms are privately owned by few monopolies, deplatforming anyone who goes against the grain becomes possible for politicians. It's apparently paradoxical but to save competition you need to limit competition to a certain extent.
Unless you think monopolies are created by the state itself through tax cuts and public fundings like it happened for FB and Google making them de facto public companies which is an argument libertarians typically advance but I don't have enough data to either prove it or disprove it.

[supporttheright]

It's back up!

[username]

Twitter ‘gave Saudi Arabia information about journalist who ended up dead’

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/09/twitter-g...to=cbshare

Fuck Twitter.

[Roosh]

Looks like Gab is getting banned on an ISP level:

[url=https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1080492704633503744][/url]

[rotekz]

(01-02-2019 10:35 PM)Roosh Wrote:  

Looks like Gab is getting banned on an ISP level:

My mobile phone provider Tesco blocks access to this forum. I have to use a VPN app when out and about.

[Silver_Tube]

It was only a matter of time before the public DNS resolvers would turn political political. It looks like we're going to need a fallback option to that as well. Assuming they aren't IP banning the site, then we'll need vpn's