Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
by Nuzzerino on Thursday June 27, 2019 @03:22PM
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I consider myself pretty open to ideas across the political spectrum and even I could not stand being there for even an hour. Gab is what happens when you combine global centralization with extreme selection bias (people who are excluded or unwelcome from the global community platforms). It's like prison but for the Internet.
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Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
by nostalgk on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:09PM
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Prison, but full of people who want to be there.
Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
by Nuzzerino on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:27PM
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That's debatable. I know a lot of conservative people. Even the ones who are not extreme (i.e. regular folks that believe in liberty) have a tendency to feel (perhaps rightly so) persecuted by the political correctness in the country/world.
Some people may turn to Gab with the feeling that it's the lesser of the evils, or the only place they can feel free from the vice grip of the power elite, but unfortunately that particular environment turns out to be not such a great role model. There are going to be breeding grounds for such views as long as there is an Internet, but those breeding grounds will grow in population in proportion to the additional prohibitions on speech imposed by the mainstream Internet platforms.