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underseacables on Feb 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from T...

First they took away the soapbox, now they take away the public square, there’s just something deeply unsettling about deplatforming. Maybe it’s not possible to create an independent social network after all.

bdibs on Feb 20, 2021 | [–]

Who's the they here? I thought they were hacked, not deplatformed by any of their service providers.

a3n on Feb 20, 2021 | [–]

Independent from what?

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