“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” -Elon Musk 11-18-22
“This isn’t that hard. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach.” – Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL 4-5-22
Posts published in “Gab”
Every election season people say “this is the most important election in our lifetimes.”
This time, I believe they are correct.
In October of 2018 Gab was banned from Paypal. The email we received from PayPal said that the company had made the decision as part of its “right to terminate your account for any reason and at any time upon notice to you.” Just like that a major source of our revenue was cut off from our business. From that moment forward we decided that we would never allow something like this to happen again. Not to Gab and not to anyone else who shares our values. We were going to build our own.
Dear Chairwoman Maloney and Chairman Lynch:
Thank you for your letter dated August 19th, 2022 (the “Committee’s Letter”).
Gab’s mission is to be the home of free speech online. It seeks to export American values and freedom to the maximum extent permitted by American law to Internet users around the world. Gab concurs with the Committee’s view that these values protect offensive and unpopular speech, but not illegal speech, such as threats. Unlawful speech is not and has never been allowed on Gab.
Gab Community,
I’m writing to update you on the progress Gab has made over the summer and on our plans for the fall and into election season. Let me start off by saying that while Big Tech platforms ready their censorship plans for the midterms, Gab will once again be the only platform allowing the free flow of information and free speech in our community. We will not be and nor have we ever policed “misinformation” or “disinformation” or any other Communist buzzword the Regime wants to come up with to stifle dissent.
As we learned recently from Mark Zuckerberg’s interview with Joe Rogan, the Regime put pressure on Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story shortly before the 2020 election. While Facebook was suppressing this story and Twitter was outright blocking people from sharing it, Gab was the one social network on the internet that had the details of the story shared freely all over the platform.
It’s not our responsibility as a platform to decide what is “disinformation.” Our responsibility as a platform is to provide a place where people can speak freely online. Gab is the only alt-tech platform on the internet to fully protect any and all political speech–even speech we personally disagree with–which is why we continue to be the largest of all the alt-tech social networks despite not being on the App Stores, being blacklisted and shunned even by “conservative” media outlets, and being defamed by demonic mainstream media outlets.
If you add up the traffic and usage of all other alt-tech social networks combined Gab is still almost double their size and that margin is growing. This isn’t an accident. Gab is the place to be to find out what everyday people are actually thinking and talking about. Gab is the one place where normal people can share their thoughts, concerns, and ideas without fear of being censored, silenced, or harassed by some woke mob. Gab is the only place where free speech–the good, bad, and ugly–can be found. In a world that is increasing fake, phony, and manufactured Gab is a breath of fresh air and a dose of reality.
Today Gab received the letter below from Congress. We weren’t going to publicize it, but given that the Committee went to the press before we did there’s no point pretending that we didn’t get it.
This letter is a response to an article in the AP this morning. Director Wray, We share your concern over threats of violence against law…
At Gab we value your privacy. Privacy is a crucial component to speaking freely. If you have to worry about not being able to provide for your family anymore because an angry mob of lunatics pressures your employer to fire you, you’re not going to be able to speak freely–if at all. So protecting the privacy of our users is top of mind right now as the Spiritual War unfolds before our eyes, especially as we continue to lay the groundwork for Gab’s Parallel Economy.
I was talking with a friend the other day who was telling some people he recently met about Gab. These folks were the ideal Gabbers: salt of the earth types who fully understand that Big Tech is evil and free speech is important.
Many people have been asking me what I think about Elon Musk purchasing Twitter for $44 billion dollars. In this letter I’m going to tell you what this means for Gab and provide my analysis of the situation as someone who has been trailblazing free speech infrastructure on the internet for nearly six years.
Did you know that you can run on ads on Gab to grow your business, brand, or organization? For the past six months we’ve been working closely…
This morning Elon Musk sent Twitter’s Board an offer to buy the entire company for $40B+. As I wrote last week, anything that explicitly has the aim of bringing more free speech to the internet for more people is a good thing.