Gab Banned By GoDaddy, Shopify, Medium; AG Plans Investigation; Founder Inundated With Death Threats

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Oct. 29, 2018

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The free speech social network Gab has been taken offline after being banned by web domain registrar GoDaddy, shopping cart service Shopify, PayPal, payment processor Stripe, web host service Joylent and even blog site Medium since being blamed by the media for the mass shooting in Pittsburgh.

Though heinous crimes are regularly livestreamed by criminal users of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without the owners of those sites being held personally responsible, Gab is being held to a completely different standard and its founder Andrew Torba is being targeted for personal destruction.

Gab's website now shows only this statement:

BREAKING: @GoDaddy is threatening to suspend our domain (which is worth six figures) if we do not transfer to a new provider by tomorrow. This is madness. @realDonaldTrump @parscale I hope you are paying attention. pic.twitter.com/5hsXKW5NvB
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

Just spoke to our broker about @godaddy and he recommended we transfer to a DNS outside of the United States. Welcome to 2018 where freedom of speech isn’t defended by US Corporations.
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

Gab is now banned from @medium, they are silencing our statement on the shooting. Here is an archive of it. You are pathetic @ev https://t.co/NJoT22v7WU https://t.co/m0AtHsBp4Q
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

Former DNC chair Howard Dean said Gab should be tried as an "accomplice" to murder:

Howard Dean: Gab should be tried as accomplice to murder in synagogue slayings https://t.co/WzkmMVvF4J pic.twitter.com/BBtffo4xXi
— The Hill (@thehill) October 29, 2018

Attorney General John Shapiro told CBS Philly on Monday: "Were also going to be conducting independently a review of the social media platform Gab, used by this individual in Pittsburgh. We're going to do everything we can to support law enforcement and do our work as well to keep people safe."

Hi @PAAttorneyGen have you ever heard of CDA 230?

When can we expect a statement on Facebook/Twitter for enabling ISIS cells, pedophiles, and live-streamed murder on their platform? https://t.co/tunWhviN2A
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

The media is going after Torba's friends and family:

Here comes the character assassination attempts from the @washingtonpost.

My friends and family are very loyal @emmersbrown.

Bring it on sweetie. pic.twitter.com/4D39P8iU6i
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

The anatomy of a mainstream media smear campaign and character assassination.

The Washington Post is harassing my family, friends, and people from my past. I refuse to let them frame me and Gab as something we are not. pic.twitter.com/KD8n6A19AX
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

Here is my full response, which they will undoubtably not publish in full. pic.twitter.com/CfZHRwcJak
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

The media is trying to get me killed.

I am not afraid.

I am praying for them all. pic.twitter.com/eKyPvdt86R
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

I just want everyone to know that I am happy, healthy, optimistic, and don’t have any plans to harm myself or others.

If something happens to me or my family it is certainly a conspiracy and you should investigate it.

Screenshot this and save it. https://t.co/fX0JJbdj3i
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

Hi @WNEP you should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves for broadcasting video footage of my parent’s home on your station. You are absolutely disgusting. May God have mercy on you. Will be praying for you tonight.
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

According to a massive academic study of all posts ever made on https://t.co/J3RftnOEqv, 94% of content did not include any “hate speech.”

In that same study, Twitter is cited as having ~97% of content without “hate speech.”

So is ~3% hate speech the baseline? 🧐
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

BREAKING: https://t.co/J3Rfto6fi3 has been banned from @Shopify pic.twitter.com/hHItDcbETk
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

Here is our full interview with @npr since they cut out 98% of what was said it would be a shame if this went viral. https://t.co/kdVHV6rICr
— Gab.com🕊 (@getongab) October 29, 2018

Torba spoke out about the censorship push on The Alex Jones Show:

Dana Loesch criticized the hypocrisy of the situation on Twitter:

What I find inconsistent is the treatment of Twitter, FB, and the lesser known service Gab. Anti-Semitic and insane remarks were reportedly shared to all 3 (and the content below is still available on Twitter) but yet only one was penalized. Why? https://t.co/UF0Q94daWt
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 29, 2018

The left's favorite line is to say "if you don't like their platforms build your own."

That's exactly what Torba did and yet he's being blacklisted and banned from every service on the internet over the criminal actions of a user which he had no control over and is doing everything in his power to bring to justice.

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