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Torba added a "feature" that lets posters remove comments. What could possibly go wrong?

https://gab.com/a/posts/109541284977482743

Torba added a "feature" that lets posters remove comments. What could possibly go wrong? https://gab.com/a/posts/109541284977482743

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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

What the hell is he thinking. No one will use gab at this point. Talk about an echo chamber, sounds like fbook redux.

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I'm thinking he got the 'silver or lead' speech.

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lol No wonder why he blocked my gab account.

https://pic8.co/sh/1yiWYa.jpeg

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I've only been banned from online dating sites. And bars

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Most likely. The alphabet soup agency and the ADL own it now. I'll lurk but no more posting for me.

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And yet how many people HERE were advocating that they run over there vs twatter? NOW those same people say run to twatter cause Elon owns the libs. Talk about clownworld.

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I admit that I’ve been optimistic on Gab and Torba. He names the jew. He has worked to build the whole system independent of global control.

I’m hoping he reverses this bad decision, or at least puts some of the protections in place others recommended.

The best suggestion I saw was preventing curated posts from being seen in the general feed, while allowing the non-curated quotes of those posts to appear. This would be a good measure because it directly handicaps those who wish to curb free speech, creating a delicious irony, leaving them to complain, “I want freedom of speech for me, but not my commenters!”

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That's a good suggestion. "No Freedom of Speech means no Freedom of Reach".

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It seems like no matter WHAT someone builds or intends it get usurped and taken over.

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This is a stupid idea that enables evil.

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Thus was the last thing I read before I had to get some stuff done, so I have been thinking about it more than I might normally. For the record, I think that this is a bad idea, but I kept asking myself "To what end?" --Is this intended to deflect responsibility away from Gab and put it on the user? If Gab gives the post creator the ability to decide the merits of a comment, would that then make the post creator responsible for the content? Is this in preparation for any governmental intervention in the "content creator vs publisher vs platform" discussion? Because the original poster gets to censor, would the original poster, not Gab, be responsible any comments in that post? What about government officials and entities? How much time will people spend "cleaning up" the comments section for every fabricated article that they produce?
--It would soon be clear who was, and who wasn't, acting in good faith and and being honest. I would imagine that those accounts would whither and fade. --Is there anything that would stop me from quoting an entire article? If I can, essentially, create a post that quotes an entire other post, what is to stop the masses from disregarding the original post in favor of the "free speech" post? Example: Person A makes pro-vax post. Person B gets miffed that their comment about vaccine injuries was deleted by Person A. Person B has a good sized following, so Person B copy/paste/quotes the entirety of Person A's content without restrictions on speech. I would imagine that users would deprive Person A of engagement and clicks and favor Person B's contribution. Person A has to make a choice: --keep censoring, which is allowing others to profit at a greater rate than you from your effort.
--Nut up and deal with other perspectives, and maybe be confronted with the possibility they they are wrong. Free speech for all. --Person A keeps at it and just...fades away into obscurity.

Everything I just said could be retarded, but in case it isn't just Gab making a shit decision, why?

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There's also the benefit of removing spammers / scammers. Every time Musk posts something on Twatter, there's a fake Musk commenter attempting an Ethereum scam

But yeah, I had many of the same thoughts as you. I want to be optimistic, but idk

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That's not selling out to the jews. He's giving users control over their own posts and comments they want to allow. Now you'll know who is for and against free speech. You can quote the person and it'll still show on your own timerline.

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Wrong. It's giving posters control over what other people see. Poster A can now decide if reader B can see commenter C's reply. That's censorship. Period.

Specifically, it allows grifters to censor all dissenting comments and make it appear as if they are posting a popular point, when they are not. The next step is to flood the platform with more grifter accounts, and you can forum slide the entire platform with bullshit, manipulated threads.