<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>_r0fz</author><text>&amp;gt; Tech&amp;#x27;s obsession with hating on Gab&amp;#x2F;Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them&lt;p&gt;Correct. We hate nazis.</text></item><item><author>abernard1</author><text>&amp;gt; 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;And in Hong Kong, it&amp;#x27;s anti-CCP protestors.  In Iran, it is opponents of the theocracy.  We can play this game all day.&lt;p&gt;Tech&amp;#x27;s obsession with hating on Gab&amp;#x2F;Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them, not on whether offensive or not-sanctioned speech should be allowed in general.</text></item><item><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></item><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>khmmr</author><text>As a European from a country with actual experience with various totalitarian regimes, based on current actions in US like restricting free speech, banning books, enforcing ideology through propaganda and forced &amp;quot;reeducation&amp;quot; courses for those whose beliefs are considered &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;positive&amp;quot; discrimination based on racial features etc, I&amp;#x27;m more inclined to think that you are not hating the nazis, you are the nazis.&lt;p&gt;Also, blaming problems in the country&amp;#x2F;world on a group of people identified by their racial features (white males), accusing them in abusing their privilege for oppression of other groups also defined by racial features. Where have I seen this before? Oh, right, nazis again..</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>_r0fz</author><text>&amp;gt; Tech&amp;#x27;s obsession with hating on Gab&amp;#x2F;Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them&lt;p&gt;Correct. We hate nazis.</text></item><item><author>abernard1</author><text>&amp;gt; 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;And in Hong Kong, it&amp;#x27;s anti-CCP protestors.  In Iran, it is opponents of the theocracy.  We can play this game all day.&lt;p&gt;Tech&amp;#x27;s obsession with hating on Gab&amp;#x2F;Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them, not on whether offensive or not-sanctioned speech should be allowed in general.</text></item><item><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></item><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>nix23</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t it beautiful how the American and western society&amp;#x27;s rips itself apart? Man vs Women, Woman vs Trans, Gay vs Lesbians, White vs Black..oh sorry i mean People of no Color vs People of Color, Democrats vs Republicans and so on...zero consensus on each side what our society should be.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the KGB wins the cold war after all...with a small delay.&lt;p&gt;Yuri Bezmenov:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=KLdDmeyMJls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=KLdDmeyMJls&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>