On: Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

[tptacek]

Again: this was flagged, but Patrick isn't trying to be inflammatory. I think it's pretty reasonable to suggest that about Torba.

[lylecubed → tptacek]

It's not even within a football stadium of being reasonable.

[tptacek → lylecubed]

Maybe it'd be more fair to say "whoever's actually managing Gab". Again, see upthread.

[lylecubed → tptacek]

I read the thread. It's still not a reasonable thing to say without proof and you don't have any. If I used your logic, it would be entirely acceptable to say youtube supports jihad against the west because it doesn't actively censor Al Qaida recruitment videos. If you had a screenshot of Torba saying he was a Nazi and believed in National Socialism, then it would be reasonable to say.

[tptacek → lylecubed]

Here's another for you:

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1027671587825172480

You sure you want to keep digging into this sewer? I'm sure there's worse we'll find.

[tptacek → lylecubed]

I don't think you're going to make yourself any happier trying to litigate this point.

[lylecubed → tptacek]

Why not? I'm right and the facts are on my side.

[pcwalton → lylecubed]

Maybe there's some kind of line that divides "white supremacist who spews Pepe memes and vile anti-Semitism" from "neo-Nazi", but really, does anyone care?

[lylecubed → pcwalton]

The only thing somebody has to do today to become a "white supremacist who spews Pepe memes and vile anti-Semitism" AND a "neo-Nazi" is vote for Trump. So, more than 51% of the country right there very much care.

[pcwalton → lylecubed]

Luckily, we don't have to have the argument about whether Trump voters are unfairly treated, because the evidence that Torba is an odious anti-Semite is clear and obvious to all but the willfully blind.