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The 'hate speech' policy reads:

> We don't allow apps that advocate against groups of people based on their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Gab is simply a platform, like Twitter and Youtube. As well as a communication channel, like Whatsapp.

Without a doubt more 'hate speech' passes through Whatsapp and Twitter each day than appears on Gab's platform so it's hard not to see this as unjust and inequitable.

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Yeah, it's complete bullshit. They've got no problem with hate speech against whites (ignoring ethnicity, because the people who like to rant about white people usually don't care about actual backgrounds), people who say hateful stuff about Christians, or people who hate guys because, well, they're guys.

You don't gotta feel persecuted or fit into any of those groups to see the obvious double standard there.

Dunno - criticise the powerfull but don't pick on the vunerable. It's kind of common sense.

> criticise the powerful

The idea that 'whites' are a homogeneous "powerful" group is as naive is it is prejudice. The standards apply to everybody or they don't apply at all.

I'm a white hetro male. If people have a go at us I'm not fussed it's not going to achieve much. Things like saying let's gas the jews or beat up gays are more problematic because those have been problems.

Do you have any idea how many 'whites' fled poverty, oppression, and worse, to come to America?

The measure of offence is not based on how 'fussed' you, an individual, feel. Nor is it based on a myopic view of history in which 'whites' have never been victims and everybody else has.

Yeah, and Jews tend to be white, so when people get in their jabs about white people, it's really ignorant and hateful. You can't tell by the tone of someone's skin what they and their family have been through. We could start discussing things like where the word Slav comes from and how much the Irish were despised in the US for a couple centuries, but those are just white people, right?

You tolerate hatred because it's against the right people, and one day some innocent person is gonna die because that hatred is no big deal. Hate is hate, let's be done with it.

Twitter and Youtube remove such content, Gab has promised it won't.

On Twitter and Youtube I can find infinite amounts of content that advocates "against groups of people based on their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity."

Jeez, you'd probably find all that in a single rap video. In addition to that, have you ever read Youtube comments?

There's clearly bias against Gab in this instance.

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