Social media platform used by suspected Pittsburgh shooter banned from PayPal
Source: The Hill
Gab.com, a social media company that was used by the suspect of Saturday's shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, received a notice from PayPal Saturday afternoon saying it would be kicked off the payment platform.
We are hereby notifying you that we are terminating our relationship with you pursuant to PayPals User Agreement. Under the PayPal User Agreement, PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to terminate your account for any reason and at any time upon notice to you, the website said in an email to Gabs CEO, which Gab then posted to its Twitter page.
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Gab, which describes itself as The Home Of Free Speech Online, rejected claims it bore any responsibility for Saturdays shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgs Squirrel Hill neighborhood that left 11 dead.
The suspected shooter, 46-year-old Robert Bowers, posted on his Gab page that jews are the children of satan.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/413488-social-media-platform-used-by-suspected-pittsburgh-shooter
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)ascap_scab
(23 posts)Plus they just bought Gab.com for $200k last month. Before that, they were Gab.ai. I'm sure they'll be Gab.ru before long.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)as soon as he went on a murderous rampage, they immediately turned over all his activity on their network to the authorities and disavowed!
/sarcasm if you didn't get it.
watoos
(7,142 posts)we will not ban you for anything short of murder. Don't want to put words in your mouth, that is my interpretation.
He wasn't going to be using their site in the near or distant future anyway.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Pay-Pal kicked this alt-right site out. Gab.com is the alt-right site that the murderer was using to post his hatred and Pay-Pal dumped them. I guess my point still stands, it still took a mass murder before Pay-Pal disowned a hate filled web site.
We need to start having some discussions about freedom of speech. Allowing people to say they are going to kill people should not be protected free speech. My gawd, a lot of countries ban hate speech and we in America admonish those countries. Maybe they are right and we are wrong? Doesn't Canada ban Fox News on cable? You can get it if you have a satellite. I just don't know. Hatred of others is taught it is not inborn. These hate filled right wing sites add fuel to a fire that is already burning. Fox and AM radio and right wing publications can pour gallons of hatred over my body but I disown, disagree with everything they preach. You have to have a tiny spark of hatred in your soul before dumping more hatred on you fans the flame.
God I hope there are at least 5 good people in Sodom and Gemorrah.