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Comment by mikeyouse | Hacker News Reader

Gab is predictably filled with Nazis, which isn't unrelated to that idiotic Pepe frog they use as a logo. Who would willingly go there?

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This is categorically false. People who love and want to defend free speech go there. If you want to continue living in a bubble world, stay on Twitter.

Pepe is not a Nazi symbol.

It doesn't have to be a 'Nazi symbol' for self professed Nazis and white nationalists to identify with it. Check out the mentions of any prominent Jewish person on twitter, it's a cesspool of Pepe frogs telling them to get in ovens or whatever other idiocy they've come up with today.

Case in point, David Duke saying "you can't zog the frog":

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/77773964892367...

ZOG = anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the Jews secretly run most countries behind the scenes.

People who believe in freedom of speech.

If the difference between Twitter's speech limits and Gab's is that the latter allows Nazis and harassment, I think you'll find most prefer "less" free speech.

Unfortunately, yes. Most people do not understand the importance of protecting even the speech they disagree with.

It appears many don't understand the difference between protecting and amplifying either. Alas.

Does Twitter have no right to freedom of speech, when there are alternatives to it? If they don't want to be associated with white nationalists, then why should they allow themselves to be?

That's what I'm saying. They have rights to their platform, and we have the right to use it or not. That's why I linked to an alternative.

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