Gab.com goes down after GoDaddy threatens to pull domain
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/28/18036520/gab-down-godaddy-domain-blocked Gab, the controversial social network with a far-right following, has pulled its website offline after domain provider GoDaddy gave it 24 hours to move to another service. The move comes as other companies including PayPal, Medium, Stripe, and Joyent blocked Gab over the weekend. It had emerged that Robert Bowers, who allegedly shot and killed eleven people at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, had a history of posting anti-Semitic messages on Gab. - - - The Gab snowflakes are complaining that private firms and decent human beings don't want to host their violent Nazi trash. The only mistake is that more firms hadn't taken this action sooner, and we can only hope for more proactive unplugging of these sociopathic monsters going forward. There's an amusing irony though. Most of these same right-wing lunatics are violently opposed to Net Neutrality and government-operated Internet capabilities (of the sort that most countries other than the USA do have). These sickos might actually have a First Amendment case to force a government-based system to carry their diseased trash, but not facilities owned and operated by non-governmental firms or other organizations. Them's the breaks! --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
