In a sign that shows that Gab.ai is disrupting big internet search monopolies plans to implement an incremental form of censorship on it's user-base and a testament to it's success, Wired has launched a hit-piece on Gab.Ai due to the founder of Gab.Ai's Anti-Censorship stance and labeled it "Alt-Right" despite the fact that the platform allows multiple political beliefs.
The writer of this lovely hitpiece by the name of Emma Grey Ellis (A Wired Reporter) said "The Internet has a speech regulation issue, To a lot of people (including WIRED), harrassment and hate speech are corruptions of the democratization promised by the Web, and websites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram take constant flack for not dealing with the problem adequately enough".
Wired's not the only typical tech news site advocating for censorship, Others including Engadget and Ars Technica have done the same too and people are sick of the agendas that support government tools and these sites are losing viewership from lots of people as result. Engadget got bought out by Verizon a couple years back, Now it's under somebody else and while they have reduced the so-called "Opinion" pieces over the past 6 to 7 months, It's too little too late just by looking at their comment section. Back when they used Disqus several years back when I first started coming to the site regularly the comment section was thriving and there wasn't any of this garbage on the site, Now there's nobody there except 1 or 2 commenters on only a handful of articles.
Bottom Line: I feel all this talk about moderating "Harrassment" and "Hate speech" is just the starting objective in this fight for domination over cyberspace. The last objective in this battlefield for free-speech moderation is censoring all speech even speech that isn't sensitive so people supporting this better be careful what they wish for. If a site wants to censor their comment section then great, That's your choice at your own peril but don't force people into a position where competitors can't compete and regulate online innovation out of business or lobby congress for free-speech laws just because you're a big monopoly and hate competition.
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