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FlyinHeadlock -7 points ago +3 / -10

The article is wrong. The app stores did not deplatform Gab. You can get the app on any device. The fucking nonsense with this shit is thick. App stores do not deplatform a fucking website. It's not a fucking app but you can get the icon on your phone and make it an app. Goes to show they don't do any research, just regurgitate the same shit.

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Pepe1776_ 7 points ago +7 / -0

You can install apps without the Playstore in Android but you have to jailbreak an iPohne to get around the App Store restrictions. But in either case it greatly diminishes traffic on mobile devices regardless of it still being accessible via the browser.

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FlyinHeadlock 4 points ago +5 / -1

But he's not on their servers. They can't budge him off anything like Parler. They don't even have an app to push off. It's a website designed like an app. Any phone can get the icon for Gab in their phone. My point is he is un -deplatformable. Not possible. Writer said he was deplatformed. Nonsense.

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Pepe1776_ 8 points ago +8 / -0

The App and Play Stores are platforms which Gab was removed from, hence, de-platformed. Presence elsewhere is irrelevant.

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FlyinHeadlock 2 points ago +3 / -1

Removing them is irrelevant. One can get the app on their phone and it works fine. This isn't Parler. The intent of deplatforming is to kill an app. There is no deplatforming it for that purpose. It works and has an app icon that works. Think we are parsing the meaning and intent of an action. Deplatforming does not harm Gab. If one wants it they can still get it.

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KuzoKevin [S] 4 points ago +4 / -0

That's exactly why there were so may performance issues when Amazon shut down Parler. Gab had to build out a ton of extra capacity to meet the new demand.

This is a great example of the free market working, and it's pretty interesting to watch it all unfold.

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QuickHands 2 points ago +3 / -1

Apple Store and Play Store are platforms. Do you understand how the English language works?

"They just cancelled his lecture hall reservation, he can still give a speech outside in the rain" 🤡🤡

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FlyinHeadlock -3 points ago +2 / -5

I understand what the owner of Gab said. Gab is a website built like an app. Anyone can get the stupid fucking icon on their phone. Those stores never blocked him from anything. It's unblockable.

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NerBolanski 3 points ago +3 / -0

App Stores can deplatform your app from their store and make your stuff undownloadable there.Gab is a webApp.

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FlyinHeadlock 0 points ago +2 / -2

They can't actually hurt Gab like Parler. Slow it down some but who cares. Once people figure out it's a web app it won't hurt it.

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