The social media website GAB is once again under fire. This time they've been banned by Stripe, PayPal, and their hosting provider,

which means they're likely going to shut down until they can find a solution.

The companies did give specific reasons, but it likely has to do with what happened yesterday with this tragic event.

The perpetrator of the event in Pittsburgh was a user of GAB and posted, bigoted, and hateful things,

even at one point saying, screer optics I'm going in as the last thing he said.

Because of this GAB is accused of allowing people to be radicalized on their platform,

and it's likely the reason they are under fire. In the past, they were removed from the app store

on Google and iTunes, so it's been increasingly difficult for GAB to function. Now, here's a thing.

People often say if you don't like the censorship and the policies of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube,

go make your own platform. And that's exactly what GAB has done, yet they're still being banned

and pressured into banning people, so it might not be possible to actually create a platform that

opposes censorship. I'm reading all of these stories trying to understand exactly what happened,

and I can say that GAB is absolutely being smeared and mischaracterized in the media.

So today, let's take a look at exactly what's going on with GAB, and let's talk about the censorship

double standard and the terrifying future we're facing, because censorship is only going to get worse.

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