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Re:Gab.com goes down after GoDaddy threatens to pull domain by anarazel on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:10AM (#18326796)
Because the criticism by mainstream media obviously isn't that they're cooperating with law-enforcement (if they are), but that they're very willing to host a lot of the awful stuff.

They're just trying to stoke the flame. Look at the stuff they're tweeting https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1056266704148262912 https://twitter.com/ClenchedFisk/status/1027690034718224384?...

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Re:Gab.com goes down after GoDaddy threatens to pull domain by Zuider on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:31AM (#18326935)
Details matter. They alerted law enforcement to Robert Bowers' profile before the police or the public knew about it, and certainly before criticism from the mainstream media. They could quite plausibly covered this up seeing Gab.com does not have a wide user base.
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Re:Gab.com goes down after GoDaddy threatens to pull domain by anarazel on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:35AM (#18326956)
The profile had been discovered before they removed the contents. A few people / journos downloaded the contents. So no, they couldn't have covered this up.
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Re:Gab.com goes down after GoDaddy threatens to pull domain by Zuider on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:38AM (#18326976)
The full profile had been given to law enforcement before its removal from public view. It was removed, as is routine for such profiles, in order to prevent copycat murders.
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