Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or they will seize it

Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by cosmiccartel on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:15PM (#15278169)

We're not talking about terrorist material. We're talking about speech. Holding and voicing controversial ideas is not terrorism.

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by WorldMaker on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:44PM (#15278402)

Words have the power to terrorize people. They build fear. You have to really split hairs to not call that terrorism.

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by cosmiccartel on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:31PM (#15278782)

Equating speech with terrorism builds fear in me. According to your logic, your own comment is terrorism. Unless you really want to split hairs.

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by WorldMaker on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:25PM (#15280226)

Not all speech is equal in building fear/stress/intimidation. Bomb/death/dismemberment threats are very different from the content of my comment.

While most of us feel like we can shrug off threats and "words can't hurt me", that isn't actually true [1], it is possible for a campaign of terrorism (in terms of "intimidation [through fear] for a political aim") to be enacted solely in words.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, and words have consequences in the way the brain processes them, even if we want to keep arguing whether or not it is valid for speech to also warrant consequences such as a private company (domain registrar) refusing to do business with another private company.

[1] It is something of a comfortable lie that we tell school children to avoid what actual science/psychology tells us is stressful/harmful to humans.

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by dogma1138 on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:26PM (#15280861)

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by thatonechad on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:25PM (#15278737)

You realize that the offending post was making a remark about a fat person, not terrorism.

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by detaro on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:35PM (#15278809)

Has a specific post been named? source?

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by thatonechad on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:39PM (#15279329)

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2017/09/05/gab-now-under-th...

According to this. Scroll down and you can see the post says INTERNET FATTIES something or other. Unless im missing the context it seems pretty ridiculous.

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by WorldMaker on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:27PM (#15296793)

Ars Technica journalists say the problem posts in question were anti-Semitic.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/twitter-rival-ga...

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Re:Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or... by WorldMaker on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:26PM (#15280238)

I was unaware that the thread I was replying to was debating specifics rather than handwaving at generalities like freedom of speech.

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