Dear Gab Community,
I wanted to inform you about a recent development that underscores our unwavering commitment to free speech principles and the protection of our users’ privacy. We have just received a data request from the German government concerning a user who, back in 2022, made a comment that was deemed “offensive” by a German politician. This comment, which referred to the politician’s weight, has prompted the German government to demand that we hand over the user’s data so they can identify and potentially imprison them for up to five years. Yes, you read that correctly: the German government is demanding Gab user data over a two year old post that called a German politician fat.