Yep, I miss the days where websites said "you want to keep your citizens from accessing our site, get fucked, do it yourself, build a great firewall because we don't have to enforce your laws for you" but those days are long gone since Facebook and Google created a precedent of doing it to keep foreign markets. It's unfortunate but this is the new status quo.
The problem is that these sites are supported by advertising and if you can’t collect ad revenue in a country, you might as well not even let them access the site.
I've begun contemplating if these companies are complicit in whatever crimes against humanity these countries may be partaking in, wanting censored-suppressed - in the name of profit, party to industrial complexes working with authoritarian governments, being fascism.
They are absolutely 100% complicit, and not just by chance, they are knowingly complicit. They take contracts from governments to censor and oppress their people. Just like IBM helped catalogue Jews in Germany and Standard Oil fueled the Nazi war machine, these companies take money to control information flows within dictatorships, hide atrocities and even provide information technology to help then further their aims in more concrete ways like biometric tracking and hacking tools.
And, btw, just to make this also explicit: if someone works for one of these companies--and aren't doing it in some way by force, or aren't working from the inside to actively sabotage the company's goals--they are also complicit.
I’ve never been to gab so I can’t say exactly what their content is but I do have a memory longer than a goldfish and I can firmly say that you are not being truthful.
Gab was kicked off those platforms for not touting the “party” line on the covid shot, trans stuff, and other social hot button issues.
