Exactly. Democracy means two of three people voting to take everything the third has and leave him for dead. True democracy is not the answer.
It absolutely was a reaction. We all know that they were planning to ban him after he was no longer the sitting president, but they saw an opportunity to ban him beforehand and hastily took it.
Once this is all settled, if we want Gab or any alternative site to grow further and be used as a competitor to Facebook/Twitter, people need to be encouraged to use it for more than just soapboxing their political views.
While political posts are what gets Facebook and Twitter user engagement, and thus the money, the idea that Facebook and Twitter host pictures of pets, food, trips, family, etc. is what keeps the people there. If Facebook and Twitter were explicitly only politics, people would never have joined and would flee.
The problem, though, is that most people on Gab are rightfully concerned with their anonymity. People don't want to lose their jobs for just being on Gab, even if they're not expressing any political views. But most people want an account they can share their lives with, and also share their political anecdotes. This is something bigger than any social media site, we need a cultural shift so conservatives feel safe voicing their political opinions again without fearing retaliation by their employers, or even their banks, etc.
TheDonald.win is on a great path branching out to have non-political communities. And since it's clearly an alternative to R******, most people that wish to use this style of service want to keep a level of anonymity anyway, unlike social networking where you want to talk to people you know IRL.
Hopefully they begin to set up presence in many states, not just one. Truly, they should look into having presence in foreign nations, too, to further shield themselves from political influence in America.
All such companies use servers
Yes, but not all such companies use servers they don't own. They literally own the hardware. This is a non-point unless you think Cisco and HP install hardware based spyware and crap in their servers before shipping them out.
We have to trust something somewhere. Should we let our guard down? No. But we have to give places a chance. If we constantly say "but this is probably just going to be compromised by this" then we will literally never have a solution.
It is bizarrely difficult to find this channel, even when you're searching explicitly for it.