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Journo gloats over Voat shutting down (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by altmehere 5 years ago by altmehere +38 / -0
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– w-duranty6489 20 points 5 years ago +20 / -0

How did the site get nuked? Are we next?

Edit: oh

"I just can't keep it up," Voat cofounder Justin Chastain said in the shutdown announcement. Investment dried up in March 2020, he explained. "I personally decided to keep Voat up until after the U.S. election of 2020. I’ve been paying the costs out of pocket but now I’m out of money."

This author clearly has brain damage from leftism.

Kate covers tech policy issues, including privacy, antitrust, and other shenanigans, from Washington, DC.

Parler is not necessarily extremist but skews heavily partisan, drawing mostly conservative and right-wing users based on false claims that other social media sites "censor" conservative views for political reasons.

In the middle of 2015, Voat's web host, Host Europe, suspended service to the platform, saying, "we will not tolerate any form of illegal right-wing extremist content and we explicitly distance ourselves from this." (Host Europe is based in Germany, which has stronger hate speech laws than the US.)

PayPal also suspended Voat's account in 2015, amid allegations the platform was hosting sexually explicit images of minors. Voat removed several forums in the wake of the suspension, including the ones dedicated to "jailbait," and switched to accepting donations in digital currencies such as bitcoin.

By 2020, another wave of users booted off other platforms had migrated to Voat: QAnon adherents. The QAnon conspiracy is linked to several incidents of real-world violence. Reddit banned several Q-linked communities in 2018, and Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube followed suit in 2020.

FURTHER READING Gab forced offline over apparent tie to Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

Indeed, not political at all, comrade Beria.

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– YouAreAPirate 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

Poisoning the well in the headline, what despicable humans journalists are.

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– ZodShael 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

The whole thing is full of BS.

Voat first launched in 2014 as a smaller Reddit alternative dedicated to "free speech," including explicit hate speech, extreme right-wing content, racism, and other content limited or prohibited on other sites. It gained traction in 2015, when Reddit finally banned several explicitly racist subreddits from its platform in a bid to limit harassment, and some discontented Reddit users decided to migrate over.

This is a "technically true" statement. In the sense that reddit banned Fat People Hate (a sub with 150k+ active users) and a few racist subs that totaled around 2000 non active users. The majority of the users who found their way to voat were the FPH ones.

Once again history has been altered to suit the narrative.

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– HeckOffSteppersReeee 10 points 5 years ago +10 / -0

Reddit does that shit all the time, they leave clearly illegal subs up for that specific reason.

Ban one illegal sub, like that stupid shoplifting one or whatever they banned about a year ago, and a whole slew of edgy, but otherwise legal subs, and you get built in plausible deniability that the press will absolutely never question.

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– YouAreAPirate 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

The Puritan Left love their “technical truths”. It’s how they’re able to finagle their tentacles into everything.

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– realerfunction 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

you speak out of turn, urine.

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– YouAreAPirate 24 points 5 years ago +24 / -0

Is this Dr. "lmao PizzaGate isn't real" Pizza?

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– deleted 16 points 5 years ago +16 / -0
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– YesMovement 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

Didn't they also employ the dongle lady?

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– deleted 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

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