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The critique of Gab, Gab doesn't want me to post

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  1. Is anyone else here in Free Speech worried about the 'awaiting moderation' system for Gab?
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  3. Seeing such a system raises alarm bells for me because censorship on tech sites always starts by introducing small amounts of moderation features (EG blocking), followed by bigger ones (EG approval moderation) before the entire site says 'fuck it, here's a bunch of rules, follow them or get banned'.
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  5. Are people on Gab really that eager for censorship? Did they forget Twitter and Facebook? Are they going 'aha, now it's our turn to censor them!'? Gab isn't supposed to be a censorship revenge site, or at least, as far as it's login page hints.
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  7. Every time I see it, I hear Captain Picard's quotation when I see such encroachment:
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  9. "With the first link, the chain is forged, the first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Po40kvI9c
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  13. "The first time any man's freedom is trodden on... we're all damaged."
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