Gab down

Before Saturday, Oct. 27, relatively few people were familiar with Gab, the fringe social network developed as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook. By the end of the day, however, media outlets from Reuters to CNN had issued “explainers” on Gab as a online haven for far-right extremism online. The New York Times published a profile of the site by the following day. The surge of attention cast Gab’s future into doubt as PayPal pulled its service from the platform; then Gab lost its hosting provider, and next, its domain name service provider. As of Oct. 29, anyone visiting gab.ai is greeted with an announcement from CEO Andrew Torba stating that Gab has been forced offline: The site, he wrote, “has been no-platformed by essential internet infrastructure providers at every level. We are the most censored, smeared, and no-platformed startup in history.”

  Lawfare Blog

You're also a breeding ground for Nazis.

Gab’s users have posted their fair share of racist, anti-Semitic and all-around hateful content over the two years of Gab’s existence. But what led to Gab’s downfall was a single post by Robert Bowers, the man charged by the Justice Department for murdering 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue on the morning of Oct. 27. Minutes before his act of violence, Bowers, whose Gab account was full of viciously anti-Semitic posts, wrote on the platform: “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

And by "his people" being "slaughtered", he was talking about the Jewish Center's support for the immigrant Caravan making its way up from Honduras. He thinks they're coming to "slaughter" whites. Where would he get an idea like that?

In August 2017, after the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that resulted in the murder of a young woman, a string of domain-name services pulled hosting from the neo-Nazi website, the Daily Stormer. The website had published an article crowing over the death of the murdered woman, Heather Heyer: “Woman Killed in Road Rage Incident was a Fat, Childless 32-Year-Old Slut.” Days later, the content delivery network and security service provider Cloudflare—famous, as the tech site the Verge wrote, “for never banning anything”—kicked the Daily Stormer off its service as well, removing the protection that had allowed the site to weather the distributed denial of service attacks targeted against it as a form of vigilante justice. The Daily Stormer vanished from the web, though it quickly resurfaced on a series of ever-more-obscure top-level domains.

And Gab will resurface, too.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 10/30: