Gab: Down but Not Out

Whenever something truly awful happens, leftists seize on it as a pretext to advance their agenda. The horrific shootings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015 triggered a campaign to rid the country of symbols of the South. Walmart and Amazon pulled confederate flags; the statues of key figures in American history were taken down because they were Southern. Leftists are not going to waste Saturday’s senseless bloodshed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh either. Immediately, they came after Gab.

Characteristically shameless in its activism, the Washington Post leads the charge. Here, it demonstrates how to use sneer quotes:

Founder Andrew Torba has long said Gab is simply a “free speech” platform for anyone who wants to join, and has responded aggressively to characterizations otherwise. But the platform’s history is tied to the white supremacists and other far-right figures who joined in its first months and have contributed to Gab’s growth.

It doesn’t matter if the synagogue shooter used other social media as well as Gab. Gab is what the Left wants shut down, because it is an alternative platform for people who don’t want Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey to dictate what they can say.

The price of free speech is that bad people get to talk too. The liberal establishment is unwilling to pay this price.

On behalf of this establishment, PayPal, Joyent, Medium, GoDaddy, and Stripe have all pulled the rug out from under Gab, bringing it down. Big Tech worked as a single entity, just as when it decided to deplatform Alex Jones.

You had to know that once an alternative to heavy-handed, leftist-dominated Twitter and Facebook started to gain traction, it would become a target.

Go to Gab this morning and you will see a defiant message promising that Gab will be back and will continue to serve as “the home of free speech online.” Let’s hope so.

On a tip from Eddie_Valiant.

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