Comment by jakelazaroff | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jakelazaroff | Hacker News Reader

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It's the other way around. Gab was created specifically as a safe haven for white supremacist speech, and so white supremacists flocked to it.

> "Gab welcomes everyone, but sees a unique opportunity to carve a niche in a massively underserved and unrepresented market. We estimate that there are over 50 million conservative, libertarian, nationalist, and populist internet users from around the world who are seeking an alternative to the current social networking ecosystems. These users are also actively seeking out alternative media platforms like Breitbart.com, DrudgeReport.com, Infowars.com, and others," Gab stated in a company filing dated July 11, 2017.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/tech/gab-anti-semitic-speech-...

This is in addition to white supremacist statements made by the company's official social media accounts: https://twitter.com/ClenchedFisk/status/1027690034718224384

You seem to be confused about what white supremacy is. It's a small subset of nationalism. There are many other types.

And white supremacy is more authoritarian than libertarian. And it's not conservative in the current political sense and it's populist.

I'm not sure what to make of that Twitter link except that there's a whole bunch of folk so embedded in their own political bubbles that they're incapable of communicating with anyone beyond.

I'm not confused about what white supremacy is. The sites listed are instructive: Breitbart has explicit white supremacist and Nazi ties [1], whereas InfoWars is often a gateway into white supremacy [2]. The Twitter link is a bunch of examples of Gab's official Twitter account making anti-Semitic comments.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-h...

[2] https://www.revealnews.org/blog/the-hate-report-infowars-is-...

Buzzfeed and Reveal are every bit as ideology-laden as Breitbart and InfoWars. I happily disregard most of what they all have to say.

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