Are you being sarcastic? Because that Buzzfeed article very much supports my statements about Gab and doesn't mention Parler at all. To quote sabergirl278 (the only commenter on that page), "So basically, its a platform for hate speech?"
The article used a picture of Pepe the frog as Captain America and says things like:
"...but Gab.ai is attracting conservatives as an alternate social platform."
"At the moment, Gab feels like a conservative chatroom..."
"It also appears that Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative writer who was permanently suspended from Twitter in July after his attack on actress Leslie Jones, has joined Gab."
"... Gab’s early, ideologically-narrow success plays into a larger trend in social media..."
This was the point you made and I quoted in my response to you:
> Gab (like Parler) was created in direct response to the deplatforming of white supremacists.
and you say that the article backs that up. Now you have provided quotes, let's see.
> The article used a picture of Pepe the frog as Captain America
Not a good start, as this is utterly irrelevant, for many reasons which I would think are as blindingly obvious as why using a comment beneath the article is irrelevant.
> ...but Gab.ai is attracting conservatives as an alternate social platform.
conservative is not a synonym for white supremacist, hence, it does not support your claim.
> At the moment, Gab feels like a conservative chatroom...
conservative is not a synonym for white supremacist, hence, it does not support your claim.
> It also appears that Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative writer who was permanently suspended from Twitter in July after his attack on actress Leslie Jones, has joined Gab.
- conservative is not a synonym for white supremacist, hence, it does not support your claim.
- Even if Yiannopoulos is or was a white supremacist, Gab was launched *before* he was kicked off of Twitter and was no doubt in development beforehand.
> ... Gab’s early, ideologically-narrow success plays into a larger trend in social media...
ideologically-narrow here meaning conservative. Drum roll, please…
conservative is not a synonym for white supremacist, hence, it does not support your claim.
What I'd like to see from you is something that evidences your claim. For example, one of the founders saying they set it up to help white supremacists, or they had a secret meeting with white supremacists about setting up Gab for them and it was leaked… not some specious nonsense that conflates conservative with white supremacist, or points to the choice of image that some sub-editor chose to go along with the article. Is that too much to ask? Just a crumb of factually accurate, relevant, evidence that isn't based on redefining basic terms or smearing entire groups of people - massive groups - as being something they are clearly not.
Can you manage that? Because this is HN, not Twitter, so I'd appreciate that you put in the effort.
