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Re:Introducing Gab.ai: The People First Social Network by mmastrac on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:15AM (#13063490)
This has the same problem that voat does: does their definition of free speech include stuff that they find distasteful, like terrorism or child love? I would wager that they'll find themselves quickly having to censor their network once people start showing up there and push the limits.

I'm reminded of the exodus of /r/fatpeoplehate from reddit to voat. If you build a network where people can be assholes, you'll have a hard time growing it beyond a small network of seed assholes.

Re:Introducing Gab.ai: The People First Social Network by faitswulff on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:19AM (#13063516)
Wow, I've never heard it called "child love" before. That's...distastefully oblique.

Anyway, moderation is always a consequence for centralized social networks. I wonder if there will ever be a reasonable decentralized option.

Re:Introducing Gab.ai: The People First Social Network by mmastrac on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:24AM (#13063560)
Re: oblique. That was exactly the point I was trying to make - a line where the content is not illegal per se, but is distasteful to reasonable people.
Re:Introducing Gab.ai: The People First Social Network by smegel on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:22AM (#13063551)
Promotion of illegal activities, or content that is illegal in itself, is a reasonable line to draw.
Re:Introducing Gab.ai: The People First Social Network by this-dang-guy on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:32AM (#13063614)
So then it depends on hosting country and viewpoint - since mention of Taiwan as an independent country is illegal in China, for example.

My issue is that I see no reason why they need to grab geolocation data from my mobile GPS device (in the TOS).

Plus, they openly acknowledge that they provide any/all info in the event of what they consider 'legally actionable' activity. Which is SUPER vague. So - there's no point in yet another online network that's just like all the other ones.

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Re:Introducing Gab.ai: The People First Social Network by Curnee on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:24AM (#13063562)
Hate speech is illegal. Does that get removed too?
Re:Introducing Gab.ai: The People First Social Network by pc86 on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:27AM (#13063584)
If it's illegal in the chosen jurisdiction(s), yes.

The question to this argument is particular is almost always "What constitutes hate speech?" Some people think it's literally anything that could make someone feel bad (whether it does or not). Some people think unless you are actively advocating for murder or genocide it's not. Most reasonable people are in the middle, but most reasonable people also disagree on whether or not putting a picture of a fat person online and making fun of it meets the standard.