Gab Faces Financial Blacklisting, Says Efforts to Build 'Free Speech Internet' Won't Be Stopped 📦

36    02 Mar 2021 21:36 by u/ruqs_user

**More power to Gab 👍.**

8 comments

12 u/All1000wombats 02 Mar 2021 21:42
Never in my life have I bought "premium" memberships or donated to keep websites online, until this year. Seeing the massive censorship attempt against conservatism and conservative sites has changed my opinion completely. I bought Ruqqus coins last month for the first time, and I plan on donating to support Gab as well. Everyone and anyone who reads this, please consider doing the same. This is a fun site to shitpost and meme on, but also one of the few truly right-leaning sites online where there's any sort of decent sized community. Let's keep this place going.
5 u/Retrofire 03 Mar 2021 08:04
What makes Ruqqus unique has nothing to do with its politics... It's the ability to speak. It's such a foreign concept to us now but Ruqqus simulates being in a more primordial environment. For example, being in a forest in 20,000 B.C. There was no centralized authority, no social constraints. It's not like something has been *added*. It's that nothing exists in the first place to regulate conversation. There is no artificial intelligence like bots, just a conversation.. So if you want to call me a faggot you can. And I can call you a cunt back. Big Brother does not exist, nor do the stewards care. I'm pretty down with that. Only way it could get better is if no stewards were necessary in the first place. But such technologies require a creator, unlike life. I'm fairly left-leaning and I've donated a considerable amount. I don't know why I felt compelled to write this comment but w/e
2 u/ruledby 03 Mar 2021 10:23
>Big Brother does not exist, nor do the stewards care. Not sure if I fully agree with that take. If you're simply saying, we're not being censored like we'd otherwise be on other platforms then sure. If you mean the 'big tech' or the government, then I disagree. Ruqqus has already been kicked off one hosting site, and regardless of the site, the government is sucking up every bit of data it can possibly get. (I just wonder how much the NSA spends each year and has spent for SSD storage)
1 u/Alkuam 03 Mar 2021 12:27
Would the NSA be using SSD's given the limited life of the cells?
1 u/ruledby 03 Mar 2021 23:27
Benefit of the lower power consumption thus reducing heat energy generated out weighted the increased cost of the drive itself.
6 u/None 02 Mar 2021 22:09
All this hostility toward Gab is making me think they're doing something right.
1 u/None 03 Mar 2021 00:21
Can't they just run funds through a shell company Like everyone else?
1 u/None 07 Mar 2021 09:26
I'd support gab, but the creator is an absolute nutjob.