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If you know anyone who's considering joining Gab, show them this article about Gab's CEO
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-torba-gab-robert-bowers_n_5bd8ed0be4b019a7ab582762Soon after Robert Bowers was accused of walking into a synagogue in Pittsburgh and killing 11 people, Gab, the social media platform where he’d railed against immigrants and called Jews “the children of Satan,” took down his account and moved to distance itself from the racist shooter.
Gab has a “zero tolerance policy” for violence and terrorism, founder and CEO Andrew Torba claimed. Bowers, Torba argued, was an aberration on the platform, not reflective of its broader culture.
That is demonstrably false. Since launching Gab in 2016, Torba has openly courted racists. When those racists flocked to Gab and predictably promoted violence on the platform, Torba either ignored the threats or actively encouraged the behavior. Bowers was not an anomaly on Gab — he was emblematic of the hateful ideology that is rampant on the site.
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By 2018, Torba had moved from reposting white supremacists to sounding his own warnings about threats to the white race. In March he referenced a favorite white nationalist conspiracy theory about a supposed white genocide in South Africa at the hands of the country’s black majority.
That same month, he predicted that his political allies on the right would win the next American civil war because they have more “guns, land, natural resources, and alpha males.”
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As Gab came under increasing pressure for providing a haven to violent racists, Torba became more open about his own views. In August, he went on an anti-Semitic rant after Microsoft gave him an ultimatum: Remove a pair of posts from neo-Nazi and failed Republican Senate candidate Patrick Little calling for torturing Jews to death and the “complete eradication of all Jews” or lose access to Microsoft’s cloud computing service. Luckily for Torba, Little volunteered to take down his posts to save the site. But Torba’s takeaway from the whole debacle was that Jews hate freedom. He went after Brian Krassenstein, a liberal Twitter star who wrote about Gab’s feud with Microsoft and called for Gab to be shut down.
“Dude named ‘Krassenstein’ doesn’t support free speech. Imagine my shock,” the Gab Twitter account, which appears to be managed by Torba, posted. “Maybe you should move to Israel or something. In America we have this thing called the First Amendment, Gab tweeted at Krassenstein. Gab has since deleted the tweets.
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Gab has a “zero tolerance policy” for violence and terrorism, founder and CEO Andrew Torba claimed. Bowers, Torba argued, was an aberration on the platform, not reflective of its broader culture.
That is demonstrably false. Since launching Gab in 2016, Torba has openly courted racists. When those racists flocked to Gab and predictably promoted violence on the platform, Torba either ignored the threats or actively encouraged the behavior. Bowers was not an anomaly on Gab — he was emblematic of the hateful ideology that is rampant on the site.
-snip-
By 2018, Torba had moved from reposting white supremacists to sounding his own warnings about threats to the white race. In March he referenced a favorite white nationalist conspiracy theory about a supposed white genocide in South Africa at the hands of the country’s black majority.
That same month, he predicted that his political allies on the right would win the next American civil war because they have more “guns, land, natural resources, and alpha males.”
-snip-
As Gab came under increasing pressure for providing a haven to violent racists, Torba became more open about his own views. In August, he went on an anti-Semitic rant after Microsoft gave him an ultimatum: Remove a pair of posts from neo-Nazi and failed Republican Senate candidate Patrick Little calling for torturing Jews to death and the “complete eradication of all Jews” or lose access to Microsoft’s cloud computing service. Luckily for Torba, Little volunteered to take down his posts to save the site. But Torba’s takeaway from the whole debacle was that Jews hate freedom. He went after Brian Krassenstein, a liberal Twitter star who wrote about Gab’s feud with Microsoft and called for Gab to be shut down.
“Dude named ‘Krassenstein’ doesn’t support free speech. Imagine my shock,” the Gab Twitter account, which appears to be managed by Torba, posted. “Maybe you should move to Israel or something. In America we have this thing called the First Amendment, Gab tweeted at Krassenstein. Gab has since deleted the tweets.
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Gab's growing very rapidly now as a RW alternative to Twitter.
And possibly anyone you know or just encounter who talks about joining Gab will WANT to join Gab if they know what a bigot Gab's CEO is.
But not all will.
So this two-year-old article from HuffPo, filling in some of Torba's background and views, should be posted wherever people are talking about joining Gab.