"You use bitcoin? I read on some article bitcoin is popular with drug dealers & criminals, it's a criminal tool. We need to ban bitcoin, and anyone who uses cyptocurrency is a drug dealer by association!"

"You're on GAB? I read on some article gab is popular with racists. It's a platform for racists. We need to ban gab. Anyone who uses gab is a nazi!"

These low IQ arguments have been made dozens of times. Once a tool gives people freedom, people freak out. It's happend with the internet, email, ebay, uber, bitcoin, bittorrent, the printing press, VHS recorders, radio casset recorders.. You guys are on the wrong side of history lol

**David Bond** @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org · Aug 02, 2019, 15:42

**David Bond** @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org · Aug 02, 2019, 15:42

Aug 02, 2019, 15:42

David Bond @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org

@cathal @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology

You know gab is powerful when people are willing to break their app store and break their apps to "block" them. This reminds me of when people were trying to ban bitcoin because it was used by "bad people"

**David Bond** @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org · Aug 02, 2019, 15:27

**David Bond** @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org · Aug 02, 2019, 15:27

Aug 02, 2019, 15:27

David Bond @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org

New Gab instance

@nuttgodd hiding what? you realize gab is just a mastodon build that anyone can use for any purpose. You know nothing about who made this or why.

**David Bond** @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org · Aug 01, 2019, 22:39

**David Bond** @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org · Aug 01, 2019, 22:39

Aug 01, 2019, 22:39

David Bond @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org

@LoverOfWisdom

Test

**David Bond** · Aug 01, 2019, 08:14

David Bond boosted

**Sir Hendrick ⚔️** @SirHendrick@noagendasocial.com · Aug 01, 2019, 08:14

Aug 01, 2019, 08:14

Sir Hendrick ⚔️ @SirHendrick@noagendasocial.com

Ain't that the truth?

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**David Bond** · Jul 31, 2019, 06:00

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**Christopher Dodd** @christopherdodd@gab.com · Jul 31, 2019, 06:00

Jul 31, 2019, 06:00

Christopher Dodd @christopherdodd@gab.com

My sister is very concerned with me being on Gab...

We had a discussion about it over the weekend and she is nervous about me signing up to a site that - according to Wikipedia - "has been widely described as a "safe haven" for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right."

Let me be clear, I'm NOT saying that I support hate speech, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the alt-right. (I'm not even clear on what some of those terms mean).

To me, signing up to Gab is about planting a flag in another social network to demonstrate to the major platforms that I don't support their largely arbitrary censorship rules.

In the course of defending my position on free speech with my family over the weekend, I've realised that the big issue I see is that the large majority of the discourse that happens online is controlled by a few big companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

These companies are set up for profit and so of course, they are going to do what's best for business. They are not primarily concerned with making sure the right content is censored or allowed.

I don't think that the people that run these companies necessarily have the wrong intention. The problem I see is that speech shouldn't be controlled by such a small number of companies

The future? Maybe it's decentralised social media.

In real life, there are certain things you wouldn't talk about at work and certain things you would or wouldn't talk about with your family.

I think that this is probably the best way to control speech. To decide within smaller groups what is and isn't acceptable in that context.

I haven't looked too much into it but perhaps decentralised social media or at least, having a distribution of discourse happening across multiple platforms (rather than just a few) will provide a better balance of freedom and safety for all.

Thoughts?

**David Bond** @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org · Aug 01, 2019, 13:58

**David Bond** @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org · Aug 01, 2019, 13:58

Aug 01, 2019, 13:58

David Bond @DavidBond@social.cleverlibre.org

gab, nazis, antisemitism

@handle

Gab allows legal speech, advocating terrorism is not legal. It's not complicated, has nothing to do with left or right.

The only thing B😍E😍A😍U😍T😍I😍F😍U😍L is that gab is respecting it's users by treating them adults unlike most social media outlets who give you a "time out" for saying "naughty words"