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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by illiac_1962 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:44PM (#18324645)
Suspending domain name registration is truly disturbing. I'm literally speechless and I feel like a line has been crossed. This is domain registration, an abstract service that routes requests based on a name. How did the policing of speech get to this level? I don't have words for the things I'm feeling right now. The actions of a mentally ill person has triggered full on censorship. This is entire situation is fucked up beyond words. We just need to man up and legally ban hate speech instead of beating around the bush and before we start quietly, effectively banning other forms of speech.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by whoopdedo on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:07PM (#18324768)
It started when the domain for The Pirate Bay was seized. And the precedent that linking or providing a way for someone to search for illegal content is the same as hosting the illegal content. Internet companies have to now take an aggressively proactive approach to avoiding hosting, linking, or being associated with a domain or content provider that may become the target of a lawsuit.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by Dylan16807 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:43PM (#18324900)
Started there, and that's far worse too. It was government action and none of the objectionable content was actually on the site.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by kingkawn on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:47PM (#18324665)
The policing of speech got to this level when the site owner expresses no responsibility for contributing to the murderous radicalization of its members.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by bassman9000 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:48PM (#18324672)
Far worse content is seen in Twitter, and they keep their domain. How so.

edit: immediate downvoting with no response. Really? So isn't there abhorrent content divulgated by Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/etc? Are any of their domains threatened by it? Any of the downvoters, feel free to engage in discussion.

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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by mikesickler on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:12AM (#18325000)
The difference is that the worst stuff you generally see on Twitter is the stuff that is highest-voted content on Gab.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by jaydz on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:59PM (#18324724)
The difference is Twitter is willing to remove the "far worse content" while Gab is not.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by c0brac0bra on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:47AM (#18327475)
The shooter's content was scrubbed and gab notified the FBI once they were made aware of it. What else were they supposed to do?
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by bassman9000 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:08PM (#18324770)
Is there any chance they don't yet have the tools to police it? It's taken a fair amount of time and resources for other platforms to do it, to the point that YouTube/Twitter rely on users to do so.

And when threatened, they've done so:

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/gab-user-deletes-anti-semitic-...

Again, seems to me we're holding to different standards.

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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by kingkawn on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:06AM (#18324977)
If you read interviews with Gab’s owner you will see there is no intention to mitigate the site’s extremism or radicalization of its members toward violence.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by leoh on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:00PM (#18324730)
GoDaddy is completely in their right to do this. They are demanding Gab.com find another provider.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by ibrault on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:52PM (#18324684)
Yes, domain registration is an abstract concept. GoDaddy, on the other hand, is in no way, shape, or form abstract and as a corporation, has the rights to do this.
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Re:GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow by belltaco on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:22AM (#18325584)
>The actions of a mentally ill person has triggered full on censorship

How do you know he was mentally ill? Lot of non-mentally ill people commit crimes. Were all the Nazis mentally ill? Was Hitler mentally ill?

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