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[Gattsu25]

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/gab-alt-rights-twitter-ultimate-filter-bubble

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Gab is less than a month old, so it may well flame out like Peach or Ello. But for now, the platform looks like an artifact from a dystopian universe where the alt-right completely took over Twitter. Gab has over 42,000 people on its waitlist, more than 11,000 active members, and among them are nearly all the alt-right’s online kingpins, including the Internet’s self-styled super-villain, Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos himself, who was recently banned for life from Twitter. And Gab’s appeal for that crowd is obvious. The only posting guidelines are no illegal porn, no threats of violence, no terrorism, and no doxing. Oh, and a fifth commandment that literally says “try to be nice.” Everything else is fair game. Notably absent? Any explicit stipulations against hate speech.

“We promote raw, rational, open, and authentic discourse online,” says Gab CEO Andrew Tolba. “We want everyone to feel safe on Gab, but we’re not going to police what is hate speech and what isn’t.” Yet in its first weeks, rather than create a free-speech zone where all voices are heard and anyone can say anything to anyone, Gab directly caters to a narrow, conservative, provocateur sensibility. The trending hashtags? Usually stuff like #HillarysHealth and #HitlerPickUpLines.

More info at the source, including information on the built in “self censorship settings” (Gab's words, not mine): https://www.wired.com/2016/09/gab-alt-rights-twitter-ultimate-filter-bubble


So, this is yet another unironic realization of the phrases that the alt-right use to lambast those they oppose. People who adopt a "don't be a dick" methodology are social justice warriors despite a huge number of actually angry & warlike commentators being on the "anti-SJW" side. People (who use large freely visible and public social networks) need to be sheltered within their safe spaces despite the new actually cloistered safe spaces being sprung up around the alt-right. It's just another example of the alt-right exactly fitting the description of those they despise.


Well, here's a warm welcome to the new safe space for the dregs of the web:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/0Awzyt7.jpg[/img]

 

[Permanently A]

so are frogs the official animal of the alt right party or what?

 

[MarcoZombieCannon]

so are frogs the official animal of the alt right party or what?

Well they are both excellent at puffing themselves up.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

So they have a safe space....?

The irony...

 

[Rest]

If it gets them off of respectable sites I'm fine with it. Let those assholes have their own space.

 

[Gattsu25]

so are frogs the official animal of the alt right party or what?

Seems that way:

Here’s the short version: Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike.

But in recent months, Pepe’s been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the “alt-right.” They’ve decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.

“We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc. We built that association,” one prominent white supremacist told the Daily Beast.​

 

[Incandenza]

I'm waiting until they implement trigger warnings for leftist sentiment

 

[WhateverItTakes]

Surely the appeal is diminished when they can't get in Twitter wars with their 'enemies'. Unless if this is all about posting dank memes.

 

[Wizard of GAF]

Thats not how you spell trump.com

Spoiler

It is.

 

[RedAssedApe]

Safe space for trolls.

 

[ReaperXL7]

I'm assuming it's not, but Is "GAB" supposed to have anything to do with GAF?

I remember Milo apparently mentioned Gaf a few times during the gamergate stuff and there was a Reddit dedicated to bitter people who had been banned from here.

 

[Gattsu25]

Surely the appeal is diminished when they can't get in Twitter wars with their 'enemies'. Unless if this is all about posting dank memes.

I imagine this will become a staging grounds for attacks on other social media networks, similar to voat and 8chan.

 

[213372bu]

Frog symbol as the website's logo, Hilldawg redeemed.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

I expect that site to cultivate a few Dylan Roofs.

"All you do is talk you're. It gonna actually do anything you cuck!" Is a common sentiment among those circles and every now and then someone really goes for it and goes on a rampage. Shit like this is why pregnant Muslim women get beat up in the U.K. Or set on fire in midtown NYC.

 

[Clydefrog]

Fuck!

 

[Dude Abides]

I wonder why the symbol is a frog. What a strange coincidence!

 

[Slayven]

Watch out Reddit, The Chans, and Voat.

 

[Casimir]

so are frogs the official animal of the alt right party or what?

From the Pepe meme, which has apparently been turned into an Alt right meme now.

 

[Kthulhu]

Watch out Reddit, The Chans, and Voat.

What is Voat?

 

[Griss]

They actually used kek as the logo? Praise kek!

Seems that way:

Here’s the short version: Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike.

But in recent months, Pepe’s been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the “alt-right.” They’ve decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.

“We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc. We built that association,” one prominent white supremacist told the Daily Beast.​

Come on. 'Feelsgoodman.jpg' took off on 4chan originally. It has hardly been corrupted, it was theirs to start with.

 

[Slayven]

What is Voat?

Reddit without the PC culture

 

[MadLaughter]

Good luck.

 

[Gattsu25]

What is Voat?

8chan is for the things that get banned off 4chan.
Gab is for the things that get banned off Twitter.
Voat if for the things that get banned off Reddit.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Can someone spam links on Tumblr? Seems like the fastest way to cause an implosion before it even gets off the ground.

 

[Crayons]

jesus christ why won't Milo GO AWAY I'm literally ashamed to have the same sexuality as him

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

So this is Twitter's counterpart to Voat or 8chan?

 

[Rayis]

I'm ok with this, in fact, expel them all from Twitter and leave it for the good people and let their shit fester in that Gab place.

 

[ryseing]

What is Voat?

Reddit clone that allows hate speech.

 

[sphagnum]

jesus christ why won't Milo GO AWAY I'm literally ashamed to have the same sexuality as him

He feeds on attention.

 

[Griss]

I'm ok with this, in fact, expel them all from Twitter and leave it for the good people and let their shit fester in that Gab place.

Exactly, this is a good development. Same as 4chan.

It's a place where people can spew whatever they want, and the only way you'll hear it is if you want to hear it. Self-segregation.

 

[ArjanN]

Come on. 'Feelsgoodman.jpg' took off on 4chan originally. It has hardly been corrupted, it was theirs to start with.

Sure, but it was generally used as just another reaction face meme. Actually that's the only way have I've seen it used, but then again I avoid boards like 4chan.

Exactly, this is a good development. Same as 4chan.

It's a place where people can spew whatever they want, and the only way you'll hear it is if you want to hear it. Self-segregation.

Sort of. The downside is the refinforcement of dumb ideas of people on the inside of the bubble.

 

[Messofanego]

I never liked Pepe anyway.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

Is there a way to gas an entire user network?

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Pepe no!

 

[Nowise10]

Unbelievably disgusting. Sites like that shouldn't be legal.

 

[Crayons]

8chan is for the things that get banned off 4chan.
Gab is for the things that get banned off Twitter.
Voat if for the things that get banned off Reddit.

Gamefaqs is for things that get banned on NeoGAF

 

[sphagnum]

Unbelievably disgusting. Sites like that shouldn't be legal.

Good luck trying to get that sort of law passed.

 

[Village]

Gab: when you too bad for 4chan but not quite 8chan level.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

Unbelievably disgusting. Sites like that shouldn't be legal.

You can't outlaw posting dumb shit on the Internet.

 

[Gattsu25]

NeoGAF is for things that get banned on Gamefaqs

Despite GameFAQs likely being older than GAF, I'd reverse the order of your post.

 

[neshcom]

Watch out Reddit, The Chans, and Voat.

Is Voat still around? Seemed like that thing went down whenever anyone looked at it sideways.

Much like others have said, better there than here. These people already get together online and will regardless of any one medium.

Edit: Wait, Gab has voting (aka hivemind censorship) and self-censoring for keywords. Any port in a storm, I guess, but talk about hypocrisy.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

no threats of violence[...]and no doxing

that's rich

 

[Crayons]

Despite GameFAQs likely being older than GAF, I'd reverse the order of your post.

I did. I edited it five seconds after posting but you already caught me

 

[Acorn]

Cool, stay there please so nobody else ever needs to hear from you.

 

[sphagnum]

Exactly, this is a good development. Same as 4chan.

It's a place where people can spew whatever they want, and the only way you'll hear it is if you want to hear it. Self-segregation.

They don't actually stay contained though. They have the power of meme magic.

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

8chan is for the things that get banned off 4chan.
Gab is for the things that get banned off Twitter.
Voat if for the things that get banned off Reddit.

Is such a thing even possible? Besides Child Porn?

 

[deli2000]

What a bunch of douchegabs.

 

[GamerJM]

I was pretty disappointed to find out about this the other day when I was looking up cute fan art of the dog from Zero Time Dilemma (who happens to have the exact same name).

 

[Principate]

Gamefaqs is for things that get banned on NeoGAF

Not sure that really works gamefaqs is hella old, older than Gaf

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

Is such a thing even possible? Besides Child Porn?

Gamergate got expelled as well IIRC.

Not sure that really works gamefaqs is hella old, older than Gaf

Not to mention that Gaf isn't as "anything goes" as 4chan, Reddit, or even Twitter.