Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter

Posted by bdibs on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:38PM
from the newsweek.com dept.

https://www.newsweek.com/social-network-gab-goes-offline-disappears-twitter-1570693

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Re:Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter by underseacables on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:11PM (#26200815)

First they took away the soapbox, now they take away the public square, there’s just something deeply unsettling about deplatforming. Maybe it’s not possible to create an independent social network after all.

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Re:Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter by bdibs on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:15PM (#26200839)

Who's the they here? I thought they were hacked, not deplatformed by any of their service providers.

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Re:Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter by a3n on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:51AM (#26202731)

Independent from what?

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Re:Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter by _prototype_ on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:02PM (#26200758)

Not a peep in here, interesting...

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Re:Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter by jki275 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:23PM (#26215738)

Probably because it didn't actually happen.

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