Gab was part of a wave of small, righty platforms that started cropping up after folks got banned by more mainstream platforms, but all these pirate outfits still have had to depend on the same mainstream financial infrastructure as everybody else.https://twitter.com/id4ro/status/1056384398352883713 …
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The gunman’s weird “optics” post right before the shooting actually very much anticipated what’s happening now, which is that doing horrible stuff tends to bring the fury of mainstream institutions down upon on all your buddies and enablers.
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Which is what happened after Charlottesville.
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Anyway, I wrote this last year after Charlottesville and it still holds true: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-far-right-crackdown-20170814-story.html …pic.twitter.com/4bfooEQjU2
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Replying to @mattdpearce
It's very curious to imagine what would have happened if Twitter had banned Trump in 2017 and he had moved to Gab.
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