Free Speech and the Baggage That Comes With It
Al Ritter
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| Neo-Nazism under the guise of a cute frog |
Free Speech is a funny thing in this country, it
allows anybody to say most anything. Canada has a thing called “hate speech,”
America on the other hand does not. The Supreme Court ruled that although
disgusting and vile all Americans have the right to say most anything they want
as long as it’s not a threat of violence or to incite violence. Oh yea and yell “fire”
in a theater.
Under title 230 the social media has hidden it's agenda. Because
they aren’t considered news sources, they may censor anything they see as
objectionable. We are seeing it playing out now that government can’t censor
free speech so they get the social media to do their dirty work through third
party back door deals.
Enter the social media site known as Gab. It is run by
a man named Andrew Torba. I joined when Facebook started pushing teen porn
advertising on their website, I refused to advance Zuckerberg’s agenda. Shortly
afterwards I was shut out of Instagram for the horrible offence of using a VPN.
Zuckerberg wanted access to all my web surfing history. Oh well I’m rambling
on.
Back to Gab, Joe Rogan told Andrew Torba that he had
heard that Gab was a refuge for anti-Semites. Andrew invited Rogan to go on the
site while they were on the air together, for approximately 3 mins. Rogan said
he couldn’t find anything along the lines of anti-Semitism.
Well 3 whole mins was a joke and I’m here to tell you
that not only is anti-Semitism abundant on Gab, Torba himself not only endorses
it but interjects his anti-Semitic views constantly. Under the guise of his
non-stop Christian agenda, he belittles Jews constantly. Joe Rogan, your initial
assessment was 100% correct and I’ll tell you why.
Andrew Torba has created a social media haven for one
of the smallest demographics in America, neo-Nazism. He exclaims on a daily
basis that free speech is alive and well on Gab, and he’s right! He’s adhering
to the 1st Amendment explicitly, and nobody can argue that, but he
is nurturing hate speech on his site.
It would appear as if the miniscule neo-Nazi
population in America has found a home at Gab.com. But they represent a much
higher percentage on Gab than any other social site.
Once you understand that, you can block people in much
the way you can on Facebook. I must say I have blocked about 500 or more
already. They seem to be fringe loners with not many friends, and many are in
Europe and Canada. They use this site because their governments don’t allow
hate speech per say.
I don't know how much longer I will stay on this site, the hate is obvious and most certainly intentional, but you have to balance true free speech against censorship I suppose, and therein is where the rub lies.
I post all my articles on Gab so I'm sure I'll ruffle more than a few feathers with this article, but let me say this., these neo-Nazis are NOT right wing by any means, if anything they are purely anarchists and they hate everyone that doesn't share their narrow views.
View the video about his site here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJjvgrR7qQU
More on Gab here:
https://www.newsweek.com/nazis-free-speech-hate-crime-jews-social-media-gab-weev-668614
More anti Semitism from Torba:
7 comments:
I remember John Taffer from the bar rescue TV show always used to tell a bar owner that they should NEVER drink in their own bar. I think the same goes for this guy constantly posting stuff on his own social site. I've seen what you are talking about first hand, and yes he is anti-Semitic too.
I guess there are drawbacks to every social site, Facebook, instagram and twitter all censor everything they don't like. Gab doesn't but has Neo Nazis big trade off, I can see your dilemma.
What percentage of Gab to you think are either Neo-Nazi or anti-Semitic?
Larry R, actually I don't know but I block at least 5 a day sooooo take that to mean what you may. Torba makes a daily statement on his stance that deals with the "Jewish" problem. If I had to make a guess I'd say maybe 10-15% on the site, and I think that figure might be light but I'm giving the benefit of the doubt.
Sort of like Twitter not being able to tell Musk how many bots they have on their site?
Larry R, yes I guess that's a good analogy because Torba would never admit how many Nazi/anti-Semites he has on his social platform
I don’t know much about this subject because I don’t use twitter or any of that junk
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