…For all its flaws, Gab’s saving grace is that it actually does what it claims: It says it is a free speech platform, and it is a free speech platform. Looking at these new “Right-wing Twitter alternatives,” none of them appear to have any intention of actually standing by free speech in any meaningful way.
You can forget about a new free speech platform coming from Donald Trump. Torba has recounted how Trump’s people reached out to him and said that Torba would have to change Gab’s terms of service to ban anti-Semitism if he wanted Trump to make Gab his new home base. Torba declined. It is also known that alt tech site Rumble changed its terms of service to ban anti-Semitism mere days before Trump’s endorsement of the site.
Trump has announced his own social media site, Truth Social, which is supposed to be launching in February, but given recent history, I think we all know what we can expect it to be like, and it is nothing to get one’s hopes up for.
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I have high hopes for Trump’s Truth Social but fear it will censor too much. One way around that is to provide several levels of filters individual users can choose for themselves. A major part of being a word-using human is using words to describe and understand other humans. In our private lives this process should not be interfered with in any way among consenting adults. But today’s world includes many anonymous adults who may want to join discussions like that. It’s no good when some discussions are stopped and others are not as happens on all Big Tech platforms today, with the exception of Gab. The site the above article comes from, Unz.com, censors almost not at all and is refreshing for that reason. I would rather hear what people think than not. The more you see of disturbing intellectual content, the less disturbing it becomes because you also see the arguments against it. If something is true, no matter how disturbing, it should not be censored. At some point we have to grow out of the legacy media cage and the sense that alternative platforms are too far out. ABN
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