What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber? · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1802.05287/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTWhat is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber? — mentioned by wpietrihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18324791urn:hackerpapers:mention:1802.05287:18324791Mon, 29 Oct 2018 03:13:44 GMT<p>Gab was explicitly started as a place for hosting things that the major platforms were, however, imperfectly, trying to get rid of. So yes, it&#x27;s the case. I get the drive. Circa 1994-2000, I was involved in bianca.com, the first web-based chat site and run with a strident free-speech ethos. Especially early on, the web was a pretty staid academic place, so a site where you could talk about anything was hugely novel. It turns out that if you let people talk about anything but most other sites have certain restrictions, then your site will become known for what other sites don&#x27;t accept. In…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1802.05287/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SIWhat is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber? — HN submissionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16400613urn:hackerpapers:submission:1802.05287:16400613Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:41:25 GMT<p>What Is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?</p><p></p><p>1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1802.05287/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SI