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You realize that the offending post was making a remark about a fat person, not terrorism.

Has a specific post been named? source?

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2017/09/05/gab-now-under-th...

According to this. Scroll down and you can see the post says INTERNET FATTIES something or other. Unless im missing the context it seems pretty ridiculous.

Ars Technica journalists say the problem posts in question were anti-Semitic.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/twitter-rival-ga...

I was unaware that the thread I was replying to was debating specifics rather than handwaving at generalities like freedom of speech.

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