<story><title>Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepost001</author><text>&amp;quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other mode“&lt;p&gt;For a non-American, could you explain how this is far right? Sounds pretty liberal.</text></item><item><author>cmeacham98</author><text>Parler is basically a direct clone of twitter&amp;#x27;s basic features. They use different names but have features similar to that of Twitter&amp;#x27;s tweet&amp;#x2F;like&amp;#x2F;retweet.&lt;p&gt;Gab&amp;#x27;s current iteration is a mastodon fork (although iirc they don&amp;#x27;t participate in the fediverse via activitypub). Gab is similar to Twitter like Parler but is less of a direct clone, offering other features Twitter doesn&amp;#x27;t have.&lt;p&gt;Gab has been along for longer and seems to be more popular. Both market to the (mostly American) far right, with their shtick being basically &amp;quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other moderation&amp;quot;. Gab seems to have been more competent in coming back up after bans from their hosting provider and other partners.</text></item><item><author>ignoranceprior</author><text>Can someone explain the difference between Gab and Parler to someone unfamiliar with both?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo686</author><text>Adverse selection. If your differenciating feature is &amp;quot;you can say what you want without getting banned&amp;quot;, your userbase is going to tend towards people who get banned on other platforms. In todays climate, that is mostly the far right.&lt;p&gt;Compounding this is PR and network effects. Once they become known as the place for the far right, then more far righters go there, and more distant people avoid it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepost001</author><text>&amp;quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other mode“&lt;p&gt;For a non-American, could you explain how this is far right? Sounds pretty liberal.</text></item><item><author>cmeacham98</author><text>Parler is basically a direct clone of twitter&amp;#x27;s basic features. They use different names but have features similar to that of Twitter&amp;#x27;s tweet&amp;#x2F;like&amp;#x2F;retweet.&lt;p&gt;Gab&amp;#x27;s current iteration is a mastodon fork (although iirc they don&amp;#x27;t participate in the fediverse via activitypub). Gab is similar to Twitter like Parler but is less of a direct clone, offering other features Twitter doesn&amp;#x27;t have.&lt;p&gt;Gab has been along for longer and seems to be more popular. Both market to the (mostly American) far right, with their shtick being basically &amp;quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other moderation&amp;quot;. Gab seems to have been more competent in coming back up after bans from their hosting provider and other partners.</text></item><item><author>ignoranceprior</author><text>Can someone explain the difference between Gab and Parler to someone unfamiliar with both?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordigh</author><text>Because the only defense they constantly employ for saying atrocious things is that it&amp;#x27;s not literally illegal to say them. It&amp;#x27;s not literally illegal to be racist, it&amp;#x27;s not literally illegal to be xenophobic, it&amp;#x27;s not literally illegal to be transphobic. So they think they should be all those things, although they don&amp;#x27;t call themselves those names.&lt;p&gt;Things should be said based on the inherent merit of what they say, not be said just because it&amp;#x27;s not literally illegal to say them. If the only reason you can find for justifying what you say is that nobody has made a law yet to  stop you (and we do have laws to stop some things from being said), then perhaps you need to find a better thing to say.</text></comment>