Gab gets new domain host, expects to be back online Sunday

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

Social media site Gab, popular among far-right extremists, has found a new domain host and expects to be back online by Sunday, it tweeted on Saturday. Gab's earlier domain host, GoDaddy, dropped the site following the news that the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers had been an avid poster on the site.

In a lengthy blog post, Rob Monster, founder and CEO of Gab's new domain host Epik.com, wrote that he "did not take the decision lightly," but "de-platforming is digital censorship." Monster said he had spoken to Gab founder Andrew Torba as part of his "own search for truth."

Gab tweeted Saturday that it is "getting close" to being live on the new domain host.



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gab-new-domain-host-epik-robert-bowers-pittsburgh-shooting/

[DRoseDARs]

2. Always helpful when fascists and their supporters publicly out themselves... nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. Yup, I wrote a quick email to their support address

Dear sir or ma’am,

There is a difference in supporting free speech, and supporting hate speech. Your decision to host the past favourite site of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers tells me all I need to know about your business model.
Goodbye

[sdfernando]

3. I foresee an exodus of domains

Leaving Epix.....perhaps an exodus of biblical proportions (for them at least)

[Cattledog]

4. Epik contact info

Contact Information
Epik, LLC
PO Box 742
Bellevue, WA 98009
Tel:
[phone]
[phone]

Support
Email: [e-mail]

[watoos]

8. Does the support come from St Petersburg, Russia?

[ancianita]

5. SOME de-platforming is censorship; when there IS a fire in our theater, we should ALL yell "fire."

[Sherman A1]

9. I would have to disagree that de-platforming is censorship

Rather it is a business decision to not be associated with a group exposing hate.

[Codeine]

12. I contend that deplatforming is unrelated

to censorship; no media entity is inherently required to be a platform for speech with which they disagree. The government cannot say that an individual’s or organization’s speech be curtailed, but nobody has an obligation to broadcast, print, or otherwise promulgate that speech.

[Takket]

6. The guy hosting GAB is literally named monster

Can’t make this stuff up

[moonseller66]

7. Sauce for the goose?

You gotta wonder if some on the left started posting the same mean, vitriolic, crazy, bigoted, etc. rants about rump or any republicans, right wing judges or politicians, their families or friends or religions or businesses if GAB and similar others would allow it!

[xor]

11. I wonder if Rob Monster is related to Rob Zombie.