INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Gab, the far-right social network that the suspect in Saturday mass shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue used to share anti-Semitic posts, has
gone offline after GoDaddy gave it 24 hours to find a new domain provider
GoDaddy decision comes after PayPal, Medium, Stripe, and Joyent banned Gab accountsover the weekend.
Bowers may face the death penalty
after being charged with 11 counts of murder and multiple hate crimes in connection to the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in
Pittsburgh, which the Anti-Defamation League said it believes is the deadliest against the Jewish community in U.S
history.
On his Gab profile, Bowers had written &jews are the children of satan& in his biography and repeatedly shared anti-Semitic
content and other hate speech
Shortly before the shooting, Bowers allegedly wrote &HIAS [an organization that aids Jewish refugees] likes to bring invaders in that kill
I can&t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered
Screw your optics, I&m going in.&
In an emailed statement, a GoDaddy spokesperson said Gab was told to move after breaking the domain
registrar rules against violent content:
&We have informed Gab.com that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another registrar, as they
have violated our terms of service
In response to complaints received over the weekend, GoDaddy investigated and discovered numerous instances of content on the site that both
promotes and encourages violence against people.&
Gab now displays a message claiming it &is under attack& and has been &systematically
no-platformed by App Stores, multiple hosting providers, and several payment processors.&
This is not the first time Gab has run afoul of
its online service providers
Last year, Gab was banned from the Apple app store and Google Play for content violations
In August, Microsoft threatened to boot it from Azure web services if two anti-Semitic posts were not removed (the posts were taken down and
Microsoft continued serving Gab).
After being suspended by Joyent, Gab said through its Twitter account that it would &likely be down for
weeks,& but later tweeted that it would &be back soon.&
GoDaddy also stopped providing domain services to white supremacist site Daily
Stormer in August 2017 after it posted an obscene article about Heather Heyer, who was killed while protesting last year Unite the Right
rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
