Re:Gab.com’s Response to Congress
by prvc on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:22AM
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Yesterday. After that, last week, easier; then last year, yet easier; 5 years ago, easier still, and so on. I will not speculate as to when the maximum was reached, but it was somewhere between the creation of the internet and the present.
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I would argue that the peak was on reddit, very briefly before the culmination of the Democrat primary in 2016. The descent was a panic response to two populists nearly winning the major party nominations in the US.
We can likely reach pre-2016 levels of Internet freedom again. I'm not sure if Gab is a critical piece of that, but they seem to be doing mostly the right things right now (though I would like to see some sort of /r/all mechanism for popular activity, right now feeds appear to be completely self-curated).
Re:Gab.com’s Response to Congress
by BeFlatXIII on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:39PM
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On Reddit, it would have been right before Gamergate became the political opinion spam that never went away. 2014 rather than 2016.
I forgot about gamergate. You are probably right.